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Announcing the finalists of the 2023 INFORMS Junior Faculty Interest Group Paper Competition

  • 1.  Announcing the finalists of the 2023 INFORMS Junior Faculty Interest Group Paper Competition

    Posted 13 days ago
    The finalists of the 2023 INFORMS Junior Faculty Interest Group Paper Competition are the following (in no particular order): 
    • Approximate Algorithms for Dynamic Inventory Management on Networks by Levi DeValve 
    • On the Optimization Landscape of Nonconvex Matrix Recovery: When Are Solutions Identifiable by Salar Fattahi and Jianhao Ma
    • Compact Extended Formulations for Low-Rank Functions with Indicator Variables by Shaoning Han and Andrés Gómez
    • Quantifying Spatial Under-Reporting Disparities in Resident Crowdsourcing by Zhi Liu, Uma Bhandaram and Nikhil Garg
    • "Be the Buyer" -- Leveraging the Wisdom of the Crowd in E-commerce Operations by Leela Nageswaran, Yu Kan and Uttara Ananthakrishnan
    • The Power of Simple Menus in Robust Selling Mechanisms by Shixin Wang
     Congratulations to all authors!! Please join us in the Best Paper sessions at the INFORMS Annual Meeting:
    • SE80. INFORMS JFIG Best Paper Competition. Sunday, October 15, 2023, 4:00 PM - 5:15 PM, CC-West 212A
    • MA80. INFORMS JFIG Best Paper Competition II. Monday, October 16, 2023, 8:00 AM - 9:15 AM, CC-West 212A
    The winning paper will be announced during the INFORMS Junior Faculty Interest Group Luncheon (Monday, October 16, 2023, 12:30 PM - 1:30 AM).
    We would like to thank Jing Dong and Andreas Wächter for serving as the Paper Competition Chairs and all the reviewers.
    Best, 
    INFORMS JFIG


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    Albert S. Berahas
    Assistant Professor
    University of Michigan
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