Dear Colleagues,
It is our pleasure to announce the finalists for the 2026 HAS Student Paper Competition. We received many excellent submissions this year, making the selection process highly competitive.
Please join us in congratulating the authors of the following finalist papers:
- Yuhang Du (London Business School): Optimal Assignment Guidelines for Maternity Waiting Homes in Resource-Constrained Environments
Joint work with Jérémie Gallien (London Business School), Qi (George) Chen (London Business School), Jody Lori (University of Michigan at Ann Arbor), Dimitris Panayiotou (Mitsios Trading Ltd), Joseph Sieka (University of Liberia)
- Sogand Soghrati Ghasbeh (University of Michigan): Hospital Admission and Patient Transfer Control: An Offline Doubly Robust Learning Approach
Joint work with Esmaeil Keyvanshokooh (Mays Business School, Texas A&M University), Arlen Dean (Washington University in St. Louis), Mark P. Van Oyen (University of Michigan)
- Junze Ye (Stanford Graduate School of Business): Scalable Stewardship of an LLM-Assisted Clinical Benchmark with Physician Oversight
Joint work with Mohsen Bayati (Stanford Graduate School of Business), Daniel Tawfik (Stanford University School of Medicine), Alex Goodell (Stanford University School of Medicine), Nikhil Kotha (Stanford University School of Medicine), Mark Buyyounouski (Stanford University School of Medicine)
- Jiachun Li (Massachusetts Institute of Technology): Beyond ATE: Multi-Criteria Design for A/B Testing
Joint work with David Simchi-Levi (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Kaining Shi (University of Chicago)
- Che-Yi Liao (Georgia Institute of Technology): Constraint-Aware Self-Improving Large Language Model for Clinical Role Model Generation
Joint work with Esmaeil Keyvanshokooh (Mays Business School, Texas A&M University), Gian-Gabriel Garcia (University of Washington)
We warmly invite you to attend the finalist presentations session on July 29, 11:00 AM–12:15 PM.
Thank you to everyone who submitted their work and contributed to this year's competition. We look forward to seeing you at the session!
Best regards,
Hussein El Hajj and Aiqi Zhang
Competition Co-Chairs
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Aiqi Zhang
Assistant Professor
Wilfrid Laurier University
Waterloo ON
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