Dear Colleagues,
On behalf of the organizing committee and the JFIG board, we are very pleased to announce the winners for the 2021 Junior Faculty Interest Group (JFIG) Paper Competition. Please join us in congratulating the winners, and also in appreciating the hard work of competition chairs, judges, and committee members (listed below) involved in this event.
Out of 31 submissions that we received this year, 23 judges shortlisted 6 finalists in Round 1 and thereafter, a five members committee decided the following winners:
- First Place: "Submodular Order Functions and Assortment Optimization" by Rajan Udwani, University of California, Berkeley.
- Second Place: "A nonparametric algorithm for optimal stopping based on robust optimization" by Bradley Sturt, University of Illinois at Chicago.
- Honorable Mention: "Achieving Efficiency in Black-box Estimation of Distribution Tails with Self-structuring Importance Samplers" by Anand Deo (Student) and Karthyek Murthy, Singapore University of Technology and Design.
Competition Co-Chairs: Alice Smith and Dorit Hochbaum
Judges (Round 1):
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Ron Askin
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George Lan
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Jay Sethuraman
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Amitabh Basu
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Larry Leemis
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David Shmoys
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Saif Benjaafar
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Erick Moreno-Centeno
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Cole Smith
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David Bergman
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Barry Nelson
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Greys Sosic
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Ebru Bish
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Georgia Perakis
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Aurelie Thiele
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Bill Cook
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Subhash Sarin
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Alex Vinel
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Guillermo Gallego
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Andrew Schaefer
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Teresa Wu
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Daniel Kuhn
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Siqian Shen
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Committee (Round 2): Stephen Chick, Panos Kouvelis, Daniel Kuhn, David Simchi-Levi, and Cole Smith (Lead).
Congratulations winners! Thank you very much chairs, judges, and committee members. Also, we would like to thank our sponsors:
- Virginia Tech (Grado Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering)
- University of Arizona (Department of Systems and Industrial Engineering)
- University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering)
- University of Toronto (Operations Management and Statistics Area, Rotman School of Management)
Best regards,
Manish Bansal, President
Ruiwei Jiang, VP/President Elect
Peter Zhang, Secretary
Ruomeng Cui, Treasurer
Stanley Lim, Media Coordinator
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Manish Bansal
Assistant Professor
Virginia Tech.
Blacksburg VA
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