Best Student Paper Award

2024 Winner(s)

  • Jingwen Zhang, Foster School of Business, University of Washington
Winning material: Measuring the Impact of Unobserved Social Networks on Group-buying Decisions under Privacy Concerns

2024 First Place

  • Ye Liu, Foster School of Business, University of Washington
Winning material: The Interplay of Opinions and Behavior in Social Trading: Early Cryptocurrency Adoption Dynamics

Purpose of the Award

Four finalists for the Best Student Paper Award will be selected to make presentations at the INFORMS Annual Meeting. The winner will be announced at the Social Media Analytics business meeting later at the conference. All finalists will receive an award certificate and 3 years free Social Media Analytics membership. The winner will also receive a plaque. The Best Student Paper Award is to be presented annually at the Social Media Analytics Section meeting during the INFORMS annual meeting. All finalists’ papers will be posted on the Social Media Analytics Section webpage, unless requested otherwise.

Application process:

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Past Awardees

2024 Winner(s)
Jingwen Zhang, Foster School of Business, University of Washington
2024 First Place
Ye Liu, Foster School of Business, University of Washington
2024 Second Place
Yen-Shao Chen, School of Management, Yale University
2024 Third Place
Meilin Gu, School of Economics and Management, Tsinghua University
2024 Finalist
Zikun Ye, Industrial and Enterprise Systems Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
 Jingwen Zhang, Foster School of Business, University of Washington Meilin Gu, School of Economics and Management, Tsinghua University Ye Liu, Foster School of Business, University of Washington Yen-Shao Chen, School of Management, Yale University
2023 Runner-Up
Abhishek Deshmane, IESE Business School
2022 Winner(s)
Yunduan Lin, University of California, Berkeley
2022 Runner-Up
Yifan Yu, University of Washington
2022 Finalist
Aida Sanatizadeh, The University of Illinois at Chicago
Qinyi Chen, MIT
2019 First Place
Yun Young Hur , Georgia Institute of Technology
2019 Second Place
Enhao Liu, The Ohio State University Theodore T. Allen, The Ohio State University
2019 Third Place
Sanghoon Cho, University of South Carolina Pelin Pekgun, University of South Carolina Ramkumar Janakiraman, University of South Carolina Jian Wang, RealPage Inc.
2018 Winner(s)
Nicolas Guenon des Mesnards, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2018 Finalist
D. Scott Hunter, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Yuan Zhang, University of Texas at Arlington
Shuang Li, Georgia Institute of Technology
2017 Winner(s)
Parshuram Hotkar
2017 Runner-Up
Zhenhuan Sui
2016 Winner(s)
Christopher E. Marks, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2016 Runner-Up
Matthias Bogaert, Ghent University
2016 Finalist
Rostyslav Korolov, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Rui Zhang, University of Colorado - Boulder
2015 Winner(s)
Nathan Kallus, Massachusetts Institute of Technology