Dear INFORMS Community,
We are incredibly excited to announce this year's finalists for the Pierskalla competition:
- Miao Bai, Nan Liu, Zheng Zhang: Helping the Captive Audience: Advance Notice of Diagnostic Service for Hospital Inpatients
- Matt Baucum, Matt Harris, Larry Kessler, Guanyi Lu: Reducing overdose deaths and mitigating county disparities: Optimal allocation of substance use treatment centers
- Tsai-Hsuan (Angel) Chung, Jatu Abdulai, Patrick Bayoh, Lawrence Sandi, Francis Smart, Hamsa Bastani, Osbert Bastani: Improving Access to Essential Medicines in Sierra Leone via Decision-Aware Machine Learning
- Sarah Yini Gao, Yan He, Ruijie Zhang, Zhichao Zheng, Sean Lam Shao Wei, Emile Tan: Optimizing Initial Screening for Colorectal Cancer Detection with Adherence Behavior
We invite you to attend their talks at the INFORMS Annual Meeting in Atlanta on Sunday, October 26, 4:15-5:30pm in Building A Level 4 A407. The winners will be revealed at the HAS Business Meeting on Monday. A big thank you to all the judges who gave their time and energy to support this competition!
2025 Committee Co-Chairs
Jackie Baek and Jónas Oddur Jónasson
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Jackie Baek
Assistant Professor
New York University
New York City NY
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