Dear colleagues,
The INFORMS Computing Society (ICS) invites nominations for its 2025 Student Paper Award. The ICS Student Paper Award is given annually to the best paper at the interface of computing and operations research by a student author, as judged by the award selection committee. The award is accompanied by a plaque and a $500 honorarium. The award will be presented at the ICS Business Meeting that will take place during the INFORMS Annual Meeting in Atlanta, October 26-29, 2025. The winner is expected to make their own travel arrangements to the INFORMS meeting. The winner will also receive free registration to the next ICS Conference. The ICS Student Paper Award is sponsored by the Mica Fonden.
For more details on the award, please see: https://connect.informs.org/computing/awards/ics-student-paper-award
The deadline for nominations for the 2025 ICS Student Paper Award is 11:59 pm EDT, July 11, 2025.
Each nominated paper should satisfy the following seven eligibility criteria:
- the entrant must have been a student on or after January 1, 2025;
- the paper must present original research;
- the research must have been conducted while the entrant was a student;
- the paper must be written by the entrant with only minor outside editorial assistance (e.g., one or more advisors may appear as co-authors of a paper, but the student must be the "first" or primary author);
- the entrant can be a (co-)author in at most one paper submitted to the competition;
- the paper must not have won a previous ICS Student Paper Award;
- the entrant must be an ICS member by the nomination deadline (July 11, 2025). If the entrant is not an ICS member by this deadline, then their nomination will be discarded.
Nominations and inquiries should be sent electronically to ics.student.prize@gmail.com no later than 11:59 pm EDT, July 11th, 2025. The nomination packet should include the following:
- the nominated paper (total of 25 pages or less in the standard format of INFORMS Journal on Computing, with 12 point font, 1.5 times spacing etc.) in pdf;
- an email address and phone number where the entrant can be contacted in the event they are selected as a finalist;
- letter(s) (in pdf format) signed by all co-authors of the paper and the entrant attesting that the eligibility conditions are met.
The 2025 ICS Student Paper Award Committee members:
Austin Buchanan, Chair (Oklahoma State University)
Ryan Cory-Wright (Imperial College London)
Yongchun Li (University of Tennessee)
Young Woong Park (Iowa State University)
Best regards,
Ryan Cory-Wright (on behalf of the committee)
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Ryan Cory-Wright
Assistant Professor of Analytics and Operations
Imperial Business School
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