Presentation Competition

• The presenter must be a member of AAS for the year 2021.
• The presenter must provide an extended abstract (one or two pages in length) as per the Extended Abstract Template provided on the AAS website. The extended abstracts should be emailed to Kai Wang (cwangkai@mit.edu), the Committee Chair, by 5 p.m. CDT on July 1, 2021.
• The presenter must be an undergraduate or graduate student at the time of extended abstract submission deadline (i.e. on July 1, 2021), and the presentation must be based on the research conducted while he/she was a student.
• Each presenter is allowed to submit at most one abstract for the competition.
• The presentation must be in an area relevant to aviation research or practice (e.g. airline operations, air traffic management, urban aerial mobility, unmanned aerial systems).

Past Winners

2020

First Place

Max Li, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Conservative Selective Redistribution of Airport Delays

Honorable Mention

Jing Gao, University of Minnesota
Collaborative Sensing and Routing in the National Air Space

2019

First Place

Rachael E. Tompa, Stanford University
Rerouting Aircraft during Space Launches using Adaptive Spatial Discretization


Pictured:  Andrew Churchill (AAS Chair), Rachael E. Tompa (middle, recipient), Heng Chen (2019 Presentation Committee
 Chair)

Honorable Mention

Junhong Guo, University of Michigan.
A Delayed Column Generation Approach for Solving a Cargo Crew Scheduling Problem

2018

First Place

Xiaojia Guo, University College London
Forecasting Airport Transfer Passenger Flow Using Real-Time Data and Machine Learning


Pictured: Vikrant Vaze (left, chair of the Aviation Applications Section), Xiaojia Guo (middle, recipient), Alexandre Jacquillat (right, secretary/treasurer of the Aviation Applications Section)

Honorable Mention

Maryam Torabbeigi, University of Houston.
Impact of Payload Amount on Battery Consumption Rate in a Delivery Application of Drones

2017

First Place

Behrooz Pourghannad, University of Minnesota
A Static Model in Single Leg Flight Airline Revenue Management

Honorable Mention

Nuno Ribeiro, Carnegie Mellon University
An Optimization Approach for Airport Slot Allocation under the IATA Guidelines

2016

First Place

Mike Wittman, MIT
Customized Offers in Airline RM

Mike Wittman (Center) with the Presentation Award Committee Chair, Lavanya Marla (Left) and the Section Chair, Senay Solak (Right)

Honorable Mention

Reed Harder, Dartmouth College
Two-Stage Game Theoretic Modeling of Airline Frequency and Fare Competition

Reed Harder (Center) with the Presentation Award Committee Chair, Lavanya Marla (Left) and the Section Chair, Senay Solak (Right)

2015

First Place

Chiwei Yan, MIT
Robust Aircraft Routing

Chiwei Yan receives the award from the Section Chair, Senay Solak.

2014

First Place

Heng Chen, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
Optimal Metering Point Locations for Optimized Profile Descent Operations at Airports

Honorable Mention

James Jones, University of Maryland at College Park
Managing Terminal Airspace Demand Uncertainty with En-Route Speed Control

2013

First Place

Alexandre Jacquillat, MIT
Airport Congestion Mitigation through Schedule Coordination: An Integrated Approach

Alexandre Jacquillat receives the award from the Section Secretary/Treasurer, Vikrant Vaze.

Honorable Mention

Yi Liu, University of California Berkeley
Cost Optimization under Capacity Uncertainty in Ground Delay Program: Single Airport Case

Yi Liu receives the award from the Section Chair, Thomas Vossen.