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
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