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2026 INFORMS Optimization Society Prizes

  • 1.  2026 INFORMS Optimization Society Prizes

    Posted 14 hours ago

    Dear Optimization Colleagues and Friends,

    Nomination and application for the 2026 INFORMS Optimization Society Prizes are open.

    For eligibility and further information for the Optimization Society Prizes, please visit:

    https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/connect.informs.org/optimizationsociety/prizes__;!!Mak6IKo!Nj7DjblQH2rZ4qyNQ40yevU8P3LkdL3xRKJP-2coMc5mFH2YC5fvWy8Wlfu07A-kjzaDTjRsZqWvJntRgMxU$. Click or tap if you trust this link." rel="noopener">https://connect.informs.org/optimizationsociety/prizes

    Our society offers five annual prizes:

    • The Khachiyan Prize, for outstanding lifetime contributions to the field of optimization by an individual or team;
    • The Farkas Prize, for outstanding contributions by a mid-career researcher to the field of optimization, over the course of their career;
    • The Egon Balas Prize, awarded annually to an individual for a body of contributions in the area of optimization;
    • The Prize for Young Researchers, awarded to one or more young researcher(s) for an outstanding paper in optimization that is submitted to and accepted, or published in a refereed professional journal;
    • The Student Paper Prize, awarded to one or more student(s) for an outstanding paper in optimization that is submitted to and received or published in a refereed professional journal within three calendar years preceding the year of the award.

    Prize committees for 2026:

    • IOS 2026 Khachiyan Prize Committee: Gerard Cornuejols, Dorit Hochbaum (chair: dhochbaum@berkeley.edu), Dave Morton
    • IOS 2026 Farkas Prize Committee: Marina Epelman, Sven Leyffer (chair: leyffer@anl.gov), Andrea Lodi, Andrzej Ruszczynski
    • IOS 2026 Egon Balas Prize Committee: Guzin Bayraksan, Alberto Del Pia (chair: delpia@wisc.edu), Guanghui (George) Lan, Leo Liberti
    • IOS 2026 Young Researchers Prize Committee: Frank Curtis (chair: frank.e.curtis@lehigh.edu), Ricardo Fukasawa, Ruiwei Jiang, Fatma Kilinc-Karzan
    • IOS 2026 Student Paper Prize Committee: Beste Basciftci, Ying Cui, Ben Grimmer (chair: grimmer@jhu.edu), Omar El Housni, Diego Moran, Sebastian Perez-Salazar, Soroosh Shafiee

    Our community has so many extremely talented individuals, and we hope to see them all in the nomination pool.  Please consider nominating individuals.

    If you have any further questions, please don't hesitate to send your questions to the committee chairs. 



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    Yongjia Song
    Associate Professor
    Clemson University
    Clemson SC
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