INFORMS Open Forum

Dear All,

The evaluation of the submissions for the Elwood S. Buffa Doctoral Dissertation Award has been concluded. Three dissertations were selected as the finalists. Please see below (the order is alphabetical). The finalists are kindly invited to present their dissertations in the 2019 annual meeting of the Decision Sciences Institute.

Pradeep Pendem:
Dissertation Title:  Data-Driven Models Of Customer Behavior to Improve Operational Efficiency In Service Systems
University: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Abhishek Roy:
Dissertation Title: Essays on Strategic Interactions in Vertical Supply Chains and Multi-sided Markets
University: The University of Texas at Austin

Xiaowei Yue:
Dissertation Title: Engineering-driven Data Analytics for in SITU Process Monitoring of Nonmanufacturing  
University: The Georgia Institute of Technology

Congratulations to all the finalists.


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Best regards,
Negin Golrezaei | Assistant Professor of Operations Management
MIT Sloan School of Management | Massachusetts Institute of Technology
100 Main Street, Building E62-577, Cambridge, MA
Phone: 617-715-2622 | Email: golrezae@mit.edu
Website:  http://www.mit.edu/~golrezae/
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