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2024 Pierskalla Award Finalists

  • 1.  2024 Pierskalla Award Finalists

    Posted 09-05-2024 10:56

    Dear INFORMS Community,

    We are incredibly excited to announce this year's finalists for the Pierskalla competition:

    • Fernanda Bravo, Ashvin Gandhi, Jingyuan Hu, Elisa Long, Closer to Home: An Estimate-then-Optimize Approach to Improve Access to Healthcare Services
    • Jackie Baek, Justin J. Boutilier, Vivek F. Farias, Jónas Oddur Jónasson, Erez Yoeli, Policy Optimization for Personalized Interventions in Behavioral Health
    • Douglas R. Bish, Ebru K. Bish, and Hussein El Hajj, Disease Bundling or Specimen Bundling? Cost- and Capacity-Efficient Strategies for Multi-disease Testing with Genetic Assays
    • Cristobal Pais, Jianfeng Liu, Robert Voigt, Vin Gupta, Elizabeth Wade, Mohsen Bayati, Large Language Models for Preventing Medication Direction Errors in Online Pharmacies

    We invite you to attend their talks at the INFORMS Annual Meeting on Sunday, October 20, 4:00 – 5:15pm in room Summit – 439. The winners will be revealed at the HAS Business Meeting (date and time to be confirmed).

    Finally, a big thank you to all the judges who gave their time and energy to support this competition. We could not have done this without you!

    2024 Committee Co-Chairs

    Rafid Mahmood, University of Ottawa

    Ian Yihang Zhu, National University of Singapore



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    Ian Zhu
    Assistant Professor
    NUS Business School
    Singapore
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