Dear colleagues,
We are delighted to announce the results of the 2025 PSOR Best Paper Competitions. We received 106 excellent submissions this year, and it was truly challenging to select only four. Congratulations to all!
- 1st Place: A Novel Adaptive Testing Scheme for Multi-disease Testing by Berk Gorgulu, Douglas R. Bish, Ebru K. Bish, Merve Bodur
- Finalist: Data-Driven Facility Layout for Enhancing Walk Appeal in Walkable Neighborhoods by Haoran Guo, Sentao Miao, Wei Qi, Jian Cui, Zhenning Dong
- Finalist: Improving Basic Retail Coverage in Africa: Modeling Geographic Disadvantage Among Farmers in Senegal by Mark Brennan, Steve Graves, Peter Zhang, Babacar Ndiaye, Jonars Spielberg, Bish Sanyal
- Finalist: Retailers' Informational Role in an Informal Circular Economy by Amrita Kundu, Erica Plambeck, Qiong Wang
We are grateful to our panel of 50 judges for their time and effort, and we thank all participants for making this year's competition a success.
Thank you for your continued support in helping to highlight the best of public sector operations research!
Best regards,
Hamsa Bastani and Angel (Tsai-Hsuan) Chung
Co-Chairs, 2025 PSOR Best Paper Award Competition
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Tsai-Hsuan (Angel) Chung
The Wharton School, UPenn
Philadelphia PA
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