2023 Awardees
The I-Sim best MS/OR-focused student paper is:
“Conditional Importance Sampling for Convex Rare-Event Sets" by Lewen Zheng (The Chinese University of Hong Kong).
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2022 Awardees
The I-Sim best MS/OR-focused student paper is:
“Rare-Event Simulation Without Variance Reduction: An Extreme Value Theory Approach" by Yuanlu Bai (Columbia University).
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2021 Awardees
The I-Sim best MS/OR-focused student paper is:
“Higher-Order Coverage Error Analysis for Batching and Sectioning" by Shengyi He (Columbia University) and Henry Lam (Columbia University).
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2020 Awardees
The I-Sim best MS/OR-focused student paper is:
“Simulation Optimization by reusing past replications: don't be afraid of dependence" by Tianyi Liu (Georgia Tech), and Enlu Zhou (Georgia Tech).
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2019 Awardee
The I-Sim best MS/OR-focused student paper is:
“Dynamic Congestion Pricing for Ridesourcing Traffic: A Simulation-Optimization Approach" by Qi Luo and Zhiyuan Huang (University of Michigan) and Henry Lam (Columbia University)
The winner is awarded $200 sponsored by I-Sim and ACM SIGSIM.
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2018 Awardee
The I-Sim best MS/OR-focused student paper is: “Green Simulation Optimization Using Likelihood Ratio Estimators” by David J. Eckman, Cornell University.
2016 Awardee
ASTRO-DF: Adaptive Sampling Trust-Region Optimization Algorithms, Heuristics, and Numerical Experience. Sara Shashaani, Susan Hunter, and Raghu Pasupathy (Purdue University)
2015 Awardee
2014 Awardee
On Adaptive Sampling Rules for Stochastic Recursions, Fatemeh S. Hashemi (Virginia Tech), Soumyadip Ghosh (IBM T. J. Watson Research Center) and Raghu Pasupathy (Virginia Tech)
2013 Awardee
Applying a Splitting Technique to Estimate Electrical Grid Reliability. Wander Wadman, Daan Crommelin and Jason Frank (CWI Amsterdam)
2012 Awardee
A New Approach to Unbiased Estimation for SDE's , Chang-Han Rhee, and Peter W. Glynn, Stanford University
2011 Awardee
A Bayesian Approach to Stochastic Root Finding, Rolf Waeber, Peter I. Frazier and Shane G. Henderson, Cornell University
2010 Awardee
Model-based Evolutionary Optimization, Yongqiang Wang, Michael C. Fu, and Steven I. Marcus, University of Maryland, College Park
2009 Awardee
Estimating Expected Shortfall with Stochastic Kriging, Ming Liu and Jeremy Staum, Northwestern University
2008 Awardee
Skart: A Skewness- and Autoreression-Adjusted Batch-Means Procedure for Simulation, Ali Tafazzoli (North Carolina State University), James R. Wilson, Emily K. Lada, and Natalie M. Steiger,
2007 Awardee
Stochastic Trust Region Gradient-Free Method (STRONG) -A New RSM-based Algorithm for Simulation Optimization, Kuo-Hao Chang (Purdue University), L. Jeff Hong and Hong Wan
2006 Awardee
Modeling Tuberculosis In Areas Of High HIV Prevalence Using Discrete Event Simulation, Georgina R. Hughes (University of Southampton), Christine S.M. Currie ,and Elizabeth L. Corbett, Cornell University