On behalf of INFORMS ENRE (Energy, Natural Resources, Environment) Section, we are delighted to announce the winners of 2026 ENRE Awards! Please join us in congratulating our colleagues for their outstanding work!
ENRE Student Best Paper Award:
Matthew Brun for the paper: Matthew Brun, Xu Andy Sun, Jean-Paul Watson. "Modeling Adversarial Wildfires for Power Grid Disruption." https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.18473
Student Best Paper Runner-Up: "Investment Equilibria under Rolling-Horizon Dispatch" by Ke Xin Zuo, and Jacob Mays.
ENRE Early Career Best Paper Award:
Wenbin Zhou and Shixiang (Woody) Zhu. "Hierarchical Probabilistic Conformal Prediction for Distributed Energy Resources Adoption." https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.12193
ENRE Best Publication Award - Energy:
David Brown, James Smith, 2025. "Unit Commitment Without Commitment: A Dynamic Programming Approach for Managing an Integrated Energy System Under Uncertainty." Operations Research, 73 (4), pp. 1744-1766. https://pubsonline.informs.org/doi/10.1287/opre.2023.0546
Runner-up in Energy:
Eli Brock, Haixiang Zhang, Javad Lavaei, and Somayeh Sojoudi, 2025. "Distributionally Robust Joint Chance-Constrained Optimal Power Flow using Relative Entropy." IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, 40 (4), pp. 2902-2914. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10834573
ENRE Best Publication Award - Natural Resources:
Chengfan Hou, Lu Wang, Tianhu Deng, Wei Qi, 2025. "Coastal Groundwater Management: Seawater Intrusion Prevention, Artificial Recharge, and Climate Adaptation." Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, 27 (5), pp. 1625-1644. https://pubsonline.informs.org/doi/10.1287/msom.2022.0441
ENRE Best Publication Award - Environment and Sustainability:
Dick den Hertog, Jean Pauphilet, Yannick Pham, Bruno Sainte-Rose, Baizhi Song, 2025. "Optimizing the Path Towards Plastic-Free Oceans." Operations Research, 73 (3), pp. 1165-1183. https://pubsonline.informs.org/doi/10.1287/opre.2023.0515
The award winners will be recognized at the ENRE Business Meeting on Monday, November 2 at 6:45 pm – 7:45 pm. The winning papers will be presented in the special ENRE Awards Session, on Monday, November 2 at 1:15 pm – 2:30 pm.
Congratulations again to the winners and thank you to all authors who submitted their work for the 2026 ENRE Awards!
------------------------------
Gokce Palak
Wake Forest University
Winston-Salem NC
------------------------------