Best Cluster Paper Award

2024 First Place

Winning material: Keep the Water Flowing: The Hidden Crisis of Rural Water Management

2024 First Place

Winning material: Operating Three-sided Marketplace: Pricing and Spatial Staffing in Food Delivery Systems

Purpose of the Award

This award is a competitive award, started in 2013, which is based on the best papers submitted to the Section's sponsored cluster at the INFORMS Annual Meeting.

Application process:

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Past Awardees

2024
First Place
Alfonso Pedraza-Martinez, Indiana University
Chengcheng Zhai, Kelley School of Business, Indiana University
Jorge Mejia, Indiana University
Kurt Bretthauer, Indiana University
Rodney Parker, Indiana University
Yanwei Sun, Imperial College London
Yiwen Shen, Columbia University
Zhe Liu, Imperial College London
Third Place
Chenshan Hu, University of Washington St. Louis
Dennis Zhang, University of Washington St. Louis
Jiankun Sun, Imperial College
Shixin Wang, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Xinyu Cao, New York University
Finalist
Bo Lin, University of Toronto
Chao Wu, Wayne State University
Dessislava Pachamanova, Babson College
Dmitry Mitrofanov, Leonard N. Stern School of Business, New York University
Georgia Perakis, MIT/ Sloan School of Management
Junyu Cao, Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, University of California, Berkeley
Mahyar Eftekhar , Arizona State University
Omar Skali Lami, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Shoshanna Saxe, University of Toronto
Timothy Chan, University of Toronto
2023
First Place
Dongwook Shin, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Miao Bai, University of Connecticut
Second Place
Guillaume Roels, UCLA Anderson School of Management
Morvarid Rahmani, Georgia Institute of Technology
Finalist
Cheng Hua, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Serguei Netessine, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
Wen Zhang, Baylor University
Youngsoo Kim, University of Alabama
2021
First Place
Qiuping Yu, Georgia Institute of Technology
Third Place
Finalist
Aditya Vedantam, University at Buffalo
Bhavani Shanker Uppari, Singapore Management University
Nitin Bakshi, London Business School
Ruihao Zhu, Purdue University
Seokjun Youn, University of Arizona
Warut Khern-am-nuai, McGill University
Wenhao Li, City University of Hong Kong
Yao Cui, Cornell SC Johnson College of Business
Yiwen Shen, Columbia University
Zhenzhen Jia, Fudan University
Zhimei Ren, Stanford University
2018
Winner(s)
Georgia Perakis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Maxime C. Cohen, McGill University
Runner-Up
Brian T. Denton, University of Michigan
Christine Barnett , University of Michigan
David C. Miller , University of Michigan
Selin Merdan, University of Michigan
 James E. Montie, University of Michigan
Finalist
Adam Elmachtoub, Columbia
Aly Megahed, IBM Research
Chelliah Sriskandarajah, University of Texas at Dallas
Guangwen Kong, University of Minnesota
Ming Hu, University of Toronto
Saif Benjaafar, University of Michigan
Terry Taylor , University of California - Berkeley
Vishal Gupta, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2017
Winner(s)
Team Name: Anna Papush, Georgia Perakis, and Pavithra Harsha
2016
Winner(s)
Georgia Perakis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Maxime C. Cohen, McGill University