The INFORMS Aviation Applications Section (AAS) will hold a Best Student Presentation Competition at the 2025 INFORMS Annual Meeting in Atlanta. AAS is organizing this competition for undergraduate and graduate students who are members of the INFORMS Aviation Applications Section. A certificate of recognition will be awarded.
To enter the competition, the following criteria must be satisfied:
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The presenter must be a member of AAS for the year of the competition.
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The presentation must be in an area relevant to aviation research or practice (e.g. airline operations, air traffic management, urban aerial mobility, unmanned aerial systems, revenue management).
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The presenter must provide an extended abstract (one or two pages in length) as per the Extended Abstract Sample provided on the AAS website. The extended abstracts should be emailed to aas.students.awards@gmail.com, by 12 p.m. CDT on July 31, 2025, with the subject '2025 AAS Best Student Presentation Abstract Submission – [last name].'
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Each presenter is allowed to submit at most one abstract for the competition.
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The presenter must be an undergraduate or graduate student at the time of the extended abstract submission deadline, and the presentation must be based on the research conducted while he/she was a student.
The winner will be chosen based on both the quality of the presentation itself and the extended abstract. AAS looks forward to an exciting set of submissions this year! For further information, please follow the link for more details: Presentation Competition - AAS and feel free to contact the committee via aas.students.awards@gmail.com.
The award committee are co-chaired by Haochen Wu and Minghao Chen, and includes Shulu Chen, Amro El-Adle, Junghyun Kim, Ang Li, Harry Liu, and Tim Lu.
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Minghao Chen
Columbia University
New York NY
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