ICS Prize

INFORMS Computing Society (ICS) Prize

ICS Prize Announcement: Nominations due July 15, 2025

The INFORMS Computing Society (ICS) invites nominations for the 2025 ICS Prize, awarded annually to the best English-language paper or group of related papers that advance the state of the art in the interface of operations research and computer science. 


Purpose of the Award:

  • Promote the development of high-quality work advancing the state of the art in the operations research/computer science interface;
  • Publicize and reward the contributions of those authors/researchers who have advanced the state of the art; and
  • Increase the visibility of excellent work in the field.

Eligibility Criteria:

  • The work must be published in the open literature.
  • It should be pertinent to the interface of operations research and computer science.
  • The work must be written in English.

Nomination Process: 

A nomination package should include:

  • A cover letter providing the title, author's name(s), place and date of publication, and a justification for the nomination.
  • A copy of each nominated work.
  • If the nominated papers include multiple authors, all authors will be considered for the prize unless justification is provided for the exclusion of some authors.
  • Self-nominations are allowed but discouraged.

Submission Details: 

  • All nominations and inquiries should be sent electronically to george.lan@isye.gatech.edu by 11:59 pm EDT, July 15, 2025. 
  • All submissions will be acknowledged.  

Award Details: 

  • The award consists of a certificate and a $1,000 honorarium.
  •  It will be presented at the ICS Business Meeting during the 2025 INFORMS Annual Meeting in Atlanta, October 26-29, 2025.

Additional Considerations: 

In alignment with the ICS Chair's guidance, the committee may consider forwarding submissions better suited for the Harvey J. Greenberg Research Award, with the authors’ explicit consent provided at the time of submission.


The 2025 ICS Prize Committee members: 

Güzin Bayraksan (The Ohio State)

Grani Hanasusanto (UIUC)

George Lan, Chair (Georgia Tech)

Andrew Trapp (WPI)

Previous winners are

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2024 Krishnakumar Balasubramanian, Shixiang Chen, Jiaxiang Li, Shiqian Ma, Anthony Man-Cho So, and Tong Zhang

2023 Alberto del Pia and Aida Khajavirad

2022 Saeed Ghadimi, Guanghui Lan, and Hongchao Zhang

2021 Adolfo R. Escobedo, Erick Moreno-Centeno, Christopher Lourenco, and Timothy Alden Davis

2020 Samuel Burer and Renato D. C. Monteiro2019 William E. Hart, Carl D. Laird, Jean-Paul Watson, David L. Woodruff, Gabriel A. Hackebeil, Bethany L. Nicholson, and John Siirola

2018 James V. Burke, Frank E. Curtis, Adrian S. Lewis, and Michael L. Overton

2017 Shabbir Ahmed, George Nemhauser, and Juan Pablo Vielma

2016 Iain Dunning, Joey Huchette, and Miles Lubin

2015 Suvrajeet Sen, Dinakar Gade, Julia Higle, Simge Küçükyavuz, Lewis Ntaimo, and Hanif Sherali

2014 Jim Ostrowski, Jeff Linderoth, Fabrizio Rossi, and Stefano Smriglio

2013 John Gunnar Carlsson

2012 A.A. Ahmadi, A. Olshevsky, P. A. Parrilo, and J. N. Tsitsiklis

2011 Dorit Hochbaum

2010 Jesús A. De Loera, Jon Lee, Peter N. Malkin, Susan Margulies, and Shmuel Onn

2009 Andreas Waechter and Lorenz Biegler

2008 Robert W. Day and S. Raghavan

2007 J. Csirik, D. S. Johnson, C. Kenyon, J.B. Orlin, P.W. Shor, and R.R. Weber

2006 John Drew, Diane L. Evans, Andrew G. Glen, and Lawrence Leemis

2005 Zhiwei Fu, Bruce L. Golden, Shreevardhan Lele, S. Raghavan, and Edward A. Wasil 

2004 Nikolaos V. Sahinidis and Mohit Tawarmalani

2003 Ignacio Grossmann

2002 Pascal Van Hentenryck

2001 Renato D.C. Monteiro, Yin Zhang

2000 Janos Pinter

1999 Yair Censor, Stavros A. Zenios

1998 Ding-Zhu Du, Frank K. Hwang

1997 Dmitri P. Bertsekas, John N. Tsitsiklis

1996 Warren Adams, Hanif Sherali

1995 John Forrest, Donald Goldfarb

1994 Fred Glover

1993 Robert Fourer, David Gay, Brian Kernighan

1992 Irvin Lustig, Roy Marsten, Nimrod Megiddo, David Shanno

1991 John Hooker

1988 Alex Meeraus

1987 Fred Glover, Darwin Klingman, Marcel Neuts

1986 Harvey Greenberg