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Announcing the Winners - STEM Spark: INFORMS K-12 Poster Competition

  • 1.  Announcing the Winners - STEM Spark: INFORMS K-12 Poster Competition

    Posted 10-13-2025 18:06

    Dear INFORMS Community,

    We're excited to announce the results of this year's STEM Spark: INFORMS K-12 Poster Competition. Thank you to all the student members who participated and helped inspire the next generation of analytical thinkers.

    ๐Ÿ† 2025 Winners

    ๐Ÿฅ‡ First Place
    Marziehsadat Rezaei - Improving Response Time to Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest
    Industrial & Systems Engineering Department, University of Louisville

    ๐Ÿฅˆ Second Place
    ฤorฤ‘e Klisura - Fair Answers for Everyone: Two AI Helpers That Understand Every Dialect
    Department of Information Systems and Cyber Security, College of AI, Cyber and Computing, The University of Texas at San Antonio

    ๐Ÿฅ‰ Third Place (three awards)
    Amir Khosheghbal - Mechanistic Modeling of Social Conditions into Disease Predictions for Public Health Intervention-Analyses: HIV as a Case Study
    University of Massachusetts Amherst

    Dan Ni Lin - Making Health Predictions Fair for Everyone
    Industrial, Manufacturing & Systems Engineering, Texas Tech University

    Jiannan Xu - AI Self-Preferencing in Algorithmic Hiring: Empirical Evidence and Insights
    University of Maryland

    ๐ŸŒŸ Special Poster Display Session

    We're delighted to share that all STEM Spark posters will be featured at the INFORMS Annual Meeting General Reception:

    ๐Ÿ—“ Sunday, October 26
    ๐Ÿ•ก 6:30 - 8:30 PM
    ๐Ÿ“ Georgia World Congress Center (GWCC), Exhibit Hall, Building A, Level One, Room A3

    (This will be part of the main reception and easy to find at the conference!)

    Select posters and recorded videos will also be featured on the INFORMS K-12 Committee website to support STEM learning and outreach.

    ๐Ÿ™ Special Thanks

    We extend our sincere appreciation to our judges for their time, insight, and dedication:

    Ana Muriel, Gabriela Barrera, Tuba Ketenci, Bill Griffin, Farhana Rahman, and Joy Kenyon-Mafu.

    Your thoughtful evaluations and encouragement helped make this competition a success.

    ๐ŸŽ‰ We can't wait to see you in Atlanta - you're warmly welcome to join us in celebrating our student innovators at the reception!

    Best,
    INFORMS EOC K-12



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    Zihan Zhang
    Ph.D. Candidate in Industrial Engineering
    Georgia Institute of Technology
    Atlanta GA
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