2017 Best Paper Awards

• INFORMS 2017 Data Mining Best Paper Awards: The information on the four finalists and their papers (presenting student's name is highlighted in bold) are as follows:

  Applied Track 

  • "Data Science Based Simulation and Optimization of Soybean Variety Selection" by Durai Sundaramoorthi (non-student), Washington University in Saint Louis.

  • "Dynamic Multivariate Functional Data Modeling via Sparse Subspace Learning" by Chen Zhang (student), National University of Singapore   

• Theoretical Track  
  

  • "Wasserstein Distributional Robustness and Regularization in Statistical Learning" by Rui Gao  (student), Georgia Institute of Technology.

  • "Frequentist Consistency of Variational Bayes" by Yixin Wang (student), Columbia University

Here is the photo of the finalists: 
 

  
2017 DMA Workshop Non-Student Paper Award Winner


 Changqing Cheng, State University of New York at Binghamton
 "Multi-scale Gaussian Process for Dynamic Evolution Prediction of Complex Systems "