We are delighted to announce the finalists of the 2025 TSL Best Student Paper Award. The competition received 43 excellent submissions from students around the world (32 institutions) with exceptional quality and a wide variety of methodologies and applications. After a rigorous three-round voting process by the committee, four finalists have been selected. Congratulations to the following finalists (ordered alphabetically by last name):
- Haoran Guo, Tsinghua University, Overworking or Outsourcing: Integrated Prediction- Optimization for Human-Centric Last-Mile Delivery Zone Assignment
- Anthony Karahalios, Carnegie Mellon University, Column Elimination: An Iterative Approach to Solving Arc Flow Formulations
- Bo Lin, University of Toronto, Conformal Inverse Optimization for Adherence-aware Prescriptive Analytics
- Alexandria Schmid, MIT, A Double Decomposition Algorithm for Network Planning and Operations in Deviated Fixed-route Microtransit
The finalists will present their work during the award session (MD21, October 27, 2025, 2:45 PM - 4:00 PM), and the competition results will be announced during the TSL business meeting. Congratulations again to the finalists, and thank you all for supporting and submitting to the competition.
Best regards,
2025 TSL Best Student Paper Committee
Okan Arslan, Ola Jabali, Chungmok Lee, Qi Luo, Barış Yıldız, Lei Zhao
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Baris Yildiz
Assistant Professor
Koc University
Istanbul
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