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Last Call: INFORMS Computing Society Student Paper Award, Nominations due June 15

  • 1.  Last Call: INFORMS Computing Society Student Paper Award, Nominations due June 15

    Posted 06-14-2021 11:05
    2021 INFORMS Computing Society (ICS) Student Paper Award
    Deadline: 11:59PM EDT, June 15, 2021

    The ICS invites nominations for its 2021 Student Paper Award. The ICS Student Paper Award is given annually to the best paper at the interface of computing and operations research by a student author, as judged by the award selection committee. The award is accompanied by a plaque and a $500 honorarium. The award will be presented at the ICS Business Meeting (hybrid format) during the 2021 INFORMS Annual Meeting in Anaheim, October 24--27, 2021. If attending in person, the winner is expected to make his/her own travel arrangements to the INFORMS meeting. The winner will also receive free registration to the next ICS Conference. The ICS Student Paper Award is sponsored by the Mica Fonden. For more details on this award, see

    https://connect.informs.org/computing/awards/ics-student-paper-award

    The deadline for nominations for the 2021 ICS Student Paper Award is 11:59 pm EDT, June 15, 2021. Each nominated paper should satisfy the following seven eligibility criteria:
    - the entrant must have been a student on or after January 1, 2021;
    - the paper must present original research;
    - the research must have been conducted while the entrant was a student;
    - the paper must be written by the entrant with only minor outside editorial assistance (e.g., one or more advisors may appear as co-authors of a paper, but the student must be the "first" or primary author);
    - the entrant can be a (co-)author in at most one paper submitted to the competition;
    - the paper must not have won a previous ICS Student Paper Award;
    - the entrant must be an ICS member by the nomination deadline (June 15, 2021). Note that ICS student membership is free if the student is an INFORMS member. If the entrant is not an ICS member by this deadline, then his/her nomination will be discarded.

    Application Process:
    Nominations and inquiries should be sent electronically to the chair of the committee at ruiwei@umich.edu no later than 11:59 pm EDT, June 15, 2021. The nomination packet should include the following:
    - the nominated paper (total of 30 pages or less in the standard format of INFORMS Journal on Computing) in pdf;
    - an email address and phone number where the entrant can be contacted in the event they are selected as a finalist;
    - letter(s) (in pdf format) signed by all co-authors of the paper and the entrant attesting that the seven eligibility conditions are met.

    The 2021 ICS Student Paper Award Committee members are:
    • Merve Bodur (Toronto)
    • Andres Gomez (USC)
    • Ruiwei Jiang, Chair (Michigan)


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    Ruiwei Jiang
    Associate Professor
    University of Michigan
    Ann Arbor MI
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