Harvey J Greenberg Research Award Announcement: Nominations due July 12, 2025
The Harvey J. Greenberg Research Award is an annual award that recognizes outstanding contributions at the intersection of computer science and operations research, with a special focus on emerging application fields. The award is named in memory of Harvey Greenberg, whose pioneering work and lifelong dedication profoundly shaped both fields, and in particular, reflects early work on AI in Operations Research. His legacy continues to inspire innovative research that bridges operations research and computer science.
Honored research will focus on contributions that exhibit the promise of making a significant impact in the scope of OR/MS/Analytics practice. The winner of the award receives a certificate and a $1,000 honorarium. The award will be presented at the ICS Business Meeting that will take place during the INFORMS Annual Meeting in Atlanta, Georgia, October 26-29, 2025. The winner is expected to make their own travel arrangements to the INFORMS meeting.
The deadline for nominations is 11:59 pm EDT, July 12th, 2025.
Conditions for eligibility:
- At least one author on a submitted paper must be an INFORMS member.
- Individuals who won the ICS Prize within two years of the submission date, or who are chosen to win the ICS Prize in the current award year, are ineligible for the award.
- The paper must have been accepted for publication at the time of submission in a refereed journal, book, or conference proceeding. If published, the paper must have appeared in the literature in the year of the award or in the two calendar years preceding the award year.
Nomination process:
A submission for this award consists of a single research paper, and completing the submission form, which covers the eligibility conditions. All nominations should be submitted electronically to https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hjg2025
by 11:59 pm EDT, July 12th, 2025. All submissions will be acknowledged.
The 2025 Harvey J Greenberg Research Award Committee:
Composed of chairs and a review panel, as well as a steering committee to assess the potential impact of finalists.
Chairs
Selva Nadarajah, University of Illinois Chicago
Andre A. Cire, University of Toronto Scarborough & Rotman School of Management
Steering Committee
Dan Adelman, University of Chicago
David Brown, Duke University
Ricardo Fukasawa, University of Waterloo
Simge Küçükyavuz, Northwestern University
Siqian Shen, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor
Golbon Zakeri, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Review Panel
Yi-Chun Akchen, University College London
Margarida Carvalho, Université de Montréal
Margarita Paz Castro, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Levi DeValve, University of Chicago
Ludwig Dierks, University of Illinois Chicago
Daniel Jiang, Meta
Carla Michini, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Raghav Singal, Dartmouth
Previous winners are
Click here for citations and committees: 2025-, 2020-2024
2025 Winners: Braden L. Crimmins, J. Alex Halderman, and Bradley Sturt
2024 Winners: Selvaprabu Nadarajah (University of Illinois Chicago) and Andre Cire (University of Toronto);
Honorable mention: Pierre Bonami (Gurobi Optimization), Andrea Lodi (Cornell Tech and Technion), and Giulia Zarpellon (University of Toronto
2023 Winners: Wei Zhang (Tsinghua), Alexandre Jacquillat (MIT), Kai Wang (Tsinghua), Shuaian Wang (Hong Kong Polytechnic); Runner-up: Li Chen (NUS), Long He (George Washington), Yangfang (Helen) Zhou (Singapore Management)
2022 Winners: Zeyu Liu and Anahita Khojandi and Xueping Li and Akram Mohammed and Robert L Davis (Tennessee), and Rishikesan Kamaleswaran (Emory); Honorable Mention: Eyyüb Y. Kıbıs ̧ ̇I. Esra Büyüktahtakın, Robert G. Haight, Najmaddin Akhundov, Kathleen Knight, and Charles E. Flower
2021 Winners: Hamidreza Validi, Austin Buchanan, and Eugene Lykhovyd
2020 Winners: Danial Davarnia and Willem-Jan van Hoeve
Supported by:
Drs. William and Carol Pierskalla Endowment
Georgia Tech
University of Pittsburgh
University of Southern California
University of Wisconsin Madison
Virginia Tech
University of Colorado Denver
University of Washington
Allen and Leanne Holder
MathWorks
Ellie, Chari, and Ari Greenberg
