2022 Winner
"Distributionally robust optimization approaches for a stochastic mobile facility fleet sizing, routing, and scheduling problem"
2022 Finalists
"Unveiling hidden energy poverty using the energy equity gap"
- Shuchen Cong, Destenie Nock, Yueming Lucy Qiu and Bo Xing
"Trying and Failing: Biases in Donor Aversion to Rejection"
- Kaitlin M. Daniels and León Valdés
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2021 Winner
“Overbooked and overlooked: Machine learning and racial bias in medical appointment scheduling”
- Michele Samorani, Shannon L. Harris, Linda Goler Blount, Haibing Lu, and Michael Santoro
- Published in Manufacturing and Service Operations Management
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2021 Finalists
- Hasnain, T., Sengul Orgut, I., & Ivy, J. S. (2021). Elicitation of Preference among Multiple Criteria in Food Distribution by Food Banks. Production and Operations Management.
Périvier, N., Hssaine, C., Samaranayake, S., & Banerjee, S. (2021). Real-time Approximate Routing for Smart Transit Systems. Proceedings of the ACM on Measurement and Analysis of Computing Systems, 5(2), 1-30.
2020 Winners
“Search Among Queues Under Quality Differentiation”
- Luyi Yang, Laurens Debo, and Varun Gupta
“Data-driven Stochastic Optimization Approaches To Determine Decision Thresholds For Risk Estimation Models”
- Gian-Gabriel P. Garcia, Mariel S. Lavieri, Ruiwei Jiang, Michael A. McCrea, Thomas W. McAllister, Steven P. Broglio, and CARE Consortium Investigators
2020 Finalists
“Changing the policy paradigm: A benefit maximization approach to electricity planning in developing countries”
- Destenie Nock, Todd Levin, Erin Baker
“Office-based and home-care for older adults in primary care: A comparative analysis using the Nash bargaining solution”
- Jennifer Mendoza-Alonzo, José Zayas-Castro, Hadi Charkhgard
2019 Winner
“A two-stage route optimization algorithm for light aircraft transport systems”
- Shadi Azadeh, Michel Bierlaire, Youssef Maknoon
2019 Finalists
“On the distributions of infinite server queues with batch arrivals”
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“A vector-borne contamination model to assess food-borne outbreak intervention strategies”
- Jessye Talley, Lauren Davis
“A new epidemics-logistics model: insights into controlling the Ebola virus disease in West Africa”
- Esra Buyutahtakin Toy, Emmanuel Des-Bordes, Eyyub Kibis
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2018 Winner
"Routing and staffing when servers are strategic"
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Ragavendran Gopalakrishnan, Sherwin Doroudi (not pictured), Amy R. Ward (not pictured), Adam Wierman (not pictured)
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2018 Finalists
"Demand fulfillment probability in a multi-item inventory system with limited historical data"
"A decomposition-based heuristic for stochastic emergency routing problems"
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Belleh Fontem, Sharif H. Melouk (not pictured), Burku B. Kesin (not pictured), Naeem Bajwa (not pictured)
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"The value of waiting during labor"
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Karen Hicklin, Julie Ivy, Fay Cobb Payton (not pictured), Meera Viswanathan (not pictured), Evan Myers (not pictured)
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(2018 finalists pictured with Sean Barnes and Lewis Ntaimo)
2017 Winner
"Chemotherapy appointment scheduling under uncertainty using mean-risk stochastic integer programming"
- Michelle Alvarado (not pictured), Lewis Ntaimo
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2017 Finalists
"Simulation of inventory systems with unknown input models: a data-driven approach“
- Alp Akcay (not pictured), Canan G. Corlu
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"A mixed-integer programming approach to the parallel replacement problem under technological change"
- Esra Büyüktahtakin, Joseph C. Hartman (not pictured)
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"The optimal assignment of spontaneous volunteers"
- Maria Mayorga, Emmett Lodree, Justin Wolczyncski (not pictured)
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(2017 finalists pictured with Sean Barnes and Lauren Davis)