We would like to announce and congratulate the finalists for the 2020 Applied Probability Society student paper competition.
In alphabetical order:
- Yichun Hu and Xiaojie Mao (Cornell U.): "Smooth contextual Bandits: Bridging the Parametric and Non-differentiable Regret Regimes" (faculty co-author Nathan Kallus)
- Yue Hu (Columbia U.): "Asymptotic Optimality of the Binomial-Exhaustive Policy for Polling Systems with Large Switchover Times" (faculty co-authors Jing Dong and Ohad Perry)
- Min-hwan Oh (Columbia U.): "Sparsity-agnostic Lasso bandit" (faculty co-authors Garud Iyengar and Assaf Zeevi)
- Anirudh Sridhar (Princeton U.): "Correlated randomly growing graphs" (faculty co-author Miklós Z. Rácz)
The finalists will present their work on Sunday November 8, 2pm-3:15m during the INFORMS annual meeting.
Regards,
Amy Ward, Chair of the competition committee