RESULTS ANNOUNCED!
Eight student teams from around the world competed in the second annual INFORMS O.R. and Analytics Student Team Competition, held April 17, at the INFORMS Business Analytics Conference in Baltimore, MD.
INFORMS, the leading international association for professionals in operations research and analytics, introduced this competition in 2017 to highlight young talent and provide O.R. and analytics students the opportunity to solve the kinds of real-world workplace challenges they will face during their careers.
Congratulations to all the teams!
FIRST PRIZE
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
SECOND PRIZE
Universidad de los Andes, Colombia
THIRD PRIZE
Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Republic of Korea
FOURTH PRIZE
University of Belgrade, Serbia
FIFTH PRIZE
Queen’s University, Canada
HONORABLE MENTIONS (alphabetically)
Özyeğin University, Turkey
University of Bern, Switzerland
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, United States
O.R. & Analytics Student Team Competition 2018
An INFORMS competition that provides real-world workplace experience for undergraduate and master’s level students.
Student teams are given the same business problem, data sets, and access to software to solve a challenging problem using an OR/analytics approach. A panel of industry and academic experts judge written submissions based on teams’ use of the full analytics process, from framing the problem to methodology selection, data use, model building and innovation. Teams selected as finalists present their solutions to a judging panel at the INFORMS Business Analytics Conference in April, with the winners announced at the conference. Students:
- Gain practical experience in taking a business problem and solution through the complete OR/analytics decision process.
- Work on a real business problem, of critical importance to the company serving as Title Sponsor.
- Demonstrate skills in organization, teamwork, communication, and presentation.
- And win valuable prizes and bragging rights for their school!
For more information: orastc@mail.informs.org