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2019 Decision Analysis Society Student Paper Award winner

  • 1.  2019 Decision Analysis Society Student Paper Award winner

    Posted 09-16-2019 08:24

    The Decision Analysis Society Student Paper Award is given annually to the best decision analysis paper by a student author, as judged by an award selection committee. The award is accompanied by a plaque and a $500 honorarium. The committee this year included Qiushi Chen, John Butler, Saša Zorc, Dan Feiler, Venkat Prava (Co-Chair), and Asa Palley (Co-Chair). We received 25 excellent submissions, covering a broad variety of problems. It is our pleasure to congratulate the winner of the 2019 award:

    • Yi-Chun Chen, for the paper "Decision Forest: A Nonparametric Approach to Modeling Irrational Choice", co-authored with Velibor Mišić.

    Yi-Chun will be presenting the work at the INFORMS Annual Meeting on Monday, October 21, 2019 at 4:30PM, during the Decision Analysis Society Awards Session, and we welcome everyone to attend.

    The committee would also like to recognize two papers as finalists for the 2019 award:

    • Huaiyang Zhong and Xiaocheng Li, for the paper "Quantile Markov Decision Processes", co-authored with Margaret Brandeau                    
    • Ying Han, for the paper "A Universal Method for Evaluating the Quality of Aggregators", co-authored with David Budescu

    We would like to extend special thanks to Qiushi Chen, John Butler, Saša Zorc, and Dan Feiler for their service on the committee this year.

    Sincerely,

    Asa Palley
    Assistant Professor
    Department of Operations & Decision Technologies, Kelley School of Business, Indiana University
    Email: apalley@indiana.edu

    Venkat Prava
    R & D Engineer
    Department of Data Science, Utopus Insights, Inc.
    Email: venkat.prava@utopusinsights.com



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    Asa Palley
    Assistant Professor
    Indiana University
    Bloomington IN
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