| Year |
Recipient |
Title
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| 2021 |
Kyra Gan, Su Jia, Andrew Li, Sridhar Tayur (first place) |
Toward a Liquid Biopsy: Greedy Approximation Algorithms for Active Sequential Hypothesis Testing
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Hamsa Bastani, Kimon Drakopoulos, Vishal Gupta, Jon Vlachogiannis, Christos Hadjicristodoulou, Pagona Lagiou, Gkikas Magiorkinis, Dimitrios Paraskevis, Sotirios Tsiodras (first place) |
Deploying a Reinforcement Learning System for COVID-19 Testing at the Greek Border
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Hussein El Hajj, Douglas Bish, Ebru Bish, Denise M. Kay (Runner-up) |
Novel Pooling Strategies for Genetic Testing, with Application to Newborn Screening
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Justin J. Boutilier, Jónas Oddur Jónasson, Erez Yoeli |
Improving Tuberculosis Treatment Adherence Support: The Case for Targeted Behavioral Interventions
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Nasrin Yousefi, Timothy Chan, Yusuf Shalaby, Maria Eberg, Katharina Forster, Claire Holloway, Luciano Ieraci |
An Inverse Optimization Approach to Measuring Clinical Pathway Concordance
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| 2020 |
Dimitris J. Bertsimas, Leonard Boussioux, Ryan Cory-Wright, Arthur Delarue, Vassilis Digalakis, Alexandre Jacquillat, Driss Lahlou Kitane, Galit Lukin, Michael Li, Luca Mingardi, Omid Nohadani, Agni Orfanoudaki, Theodore Papalexopoulos, Ivan Paskov, Jean Pauphilet, Omar Skali Lami, Bartolomeo Stellato, Hamza Tazi Bouardi, Kimberly Villalobos Carballo, Holly Wiberg, Cynthia Zeng |
From predictions to prescriptions: A data-driven response to COVID-19
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Justin J. Boutilier, Timothy C.Y. Chan (Runner-up) |
Ambulance emergency response optimization for developing countries
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Bariş Ata, John J. Friedewald, A. Cem Randa |
Structural estimation of kidney transplant candidates' quality of life scores
|
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Daniel Adelman, Kanix Wang |
Optimal genetic testing of families
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| 2019 |
Arielle Anderer, Hamsa Bastani, John Silberholz |
Adaptive Clinical Trial Designs with Surrogates: When Should We Bother?
|
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Zhijin Zhou, Yingfei Wang, Hamed Mamani, David G. Coffey
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How Do Tumor Cytogenetics Inform Cancer Treatments? Dynamic Risk Stratification and Precision Medicine Using Multi-Armed Bandits
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Baris Ata, Yichuan Ding, Stefanos Zenios
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Achievable-Region-Based Approach for Kidney Allocation Policy Design with Endogenous Patient Choice
|
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Sze-Chuan Suen, Diana M. Negoescu, Joel Goh
|
Design of Incentive Programs for Optimal Medication Adherence
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| 2018 |
Pengyi Shi, Jonathan Helm, Jivan Romain Deglise-Hawkinson, and Julian Pan |
Timing it Right: Balancing Inpatient Congestion versus Readmission Risk at Discharge |
|
Stephen Chick, Noah Gans, and Ozge Yapar (Runner-up) |
Bayesian Sequential Learning for Clinical Trials of Multiple Correlated Medical Interventions |
|
Taylor Corcoran, Elisa Long, and Fernanda Brava |
Flexible FDA Approval Policies |
|
Hamsa Sridhar Bastani, Osbert Bastani, and Carolyn Kim |
Interpreting Predictive Models for Human-in-the-Loop Analytics |
|
Rongqing Han, Vishal Gupta, Song-Hee Kim, and Hyung Paek |
Maximizing Intervention Effectiveness |
| 2017 |
Sze-chuan Suen, Margaret L. Brandeau, and Jeremy D. Goldhaber-Fiebert |
Optimal Timing of Drug Sensitivity Testing for Patients on Firstline Tuberculosis Treatment |
|
Hrayer Aprahamian, Douglas R. Bish, and Ebru K. Bish (Runner-up) |
Optimal Risk-based Group Testing in Public Health Screening |
|
Wenqi Hu, Carri W. Chan, José R. Zubizarreta, and Gabriel J. Escobar (Runner-up) |
An Examination of Early Transfers to the ICU Based on a Physiologic Risk Score |
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Anil Aswani, Philip Kaminsky, Yonatan Mintz, Yoshimi Fukuoka, and Elena Flowers (Finalist) |
Non- Stationary Bandits with Habituation and Recovery Dynamics |
|
Saša Zorc, Stephen E. Chick, and Sameer Hasija (Finalist) |
Outcomes-based Reimbursement Policies for Chronic Care Pathways |
| 2016 |
Hamsa Bastani and Mohsen Bayati |
Online Decision-Making with High-Dimensional Covariates |
| |
Anil Aswani, Zuo-Jun (Max) Shen, and Auyon Saddiq (Runner-up) |
Data-Driven Incentive Design in the Medicare Shared Savings Program |
| |
Susan Feng Lu and Lauren Xiaoyuan Lu (Finalist) |
Do Mandatory Overtime Laws Improve Quality? Staffing Decisions and Operational Flexibility of Nursing Homes |
| |
Turgay Ayer, Anthony Bonifonte, Can Zhang, Anne Spaulding, and Jagpreet Chhatwal (Finalist) |
Prioritizing Hepatitis C Treatment in U.S. Prisons |
| 2015 |
Baris Ata, Anton Skaro, and Sridhar Tayur |
OrganJet: Overcoming geographical disparities in access to deceased donor kidneys in the United States |
| |
Stephen E. Chick, Martin Forster, and Paolo Pertile (Runner-up) |
A Bayesian decision-theoretic model of sequential experimentation with delayed responses |
| |
Hadi El-Amine, Ebru K. Bish, and Douglas R. Bish (Finalist) |
Robust post-donation blood screening under prevalence rate uncertainty |
| |
Dan Yamin, Yoku Ibuka, Alison P. Galvani, and Jeffrey P. Townsend (Finalist) |
Optimal dosing of rotavirus vaccination in Japan |
| |
Justin Jia and Hui Zhao (Finalist) |
Mitigating the U.S. drug shortages: Pareto-improving contract design |
| 2014 |
Soo-Haeng Cho, Hoon Jang, Taesik Lee, and John Turner |
Simultaneous Location of Trauma Centers and Helicopters for Emergency Medical Service Planning |
|
Joel Goh, Mohsen Bayati, Stafanos Zenios, Sundeep Singh, and David Moore |
Data Uncertainty in Markov Chains: Application to Cost-effectiveness Analyses of Medical Innovations |
| |
Diana Negoescu, Kostas Bimpikis, Margaret Brandeau, and Dan Iancu (Finalist) |
Dynamic Learning of Patient Response Types: An Application to Treating Chronic Diseases |
| |
Nicos Savva, Michael Freeman, and Stefan Scholtes (Finalist) |
Decomposing the Effect of Workload on Patient Outcomes: An Empirical Analysis of a Maternity Unit |
| 2013 |
Dimitris Bertsimas, Allison O'Hair, Stephen Relyea, and John Silberholz |
An Analytics Approach to Designing Clinical Trials for Cancer |
| |
Song-Hee Kim, Carri W. Chan, Marcelo Olivares, and Gabriel Escobar (Finalist) |
ICU Admission Control: An Empirical Study of Capacity Allocation and its Implication on Patient Outcomes |
| |
Dan Yamin and Arieh Gavious (Finalist) |
Incentives' Effect In Influenza Vaccination Policy |
| |
Ludwig Kuntz, Roman Mennicken, and Stefan Scholtes (Finalist) |
Stress on the Ward: Evidence of Safety Tipping Points in Hospitals |
| 2012 |
Vishal Ahuja and John Birge |
Fully Adaptive Designs for Clinical Trials: Simultaneous Learning from Multiple Patients |
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Tinglong Dai, Soo-Haeng Cho, and Fuqiang Zhang (Runner-up) |
Contracting for On-Time Delivery in the US Influenza Vaccine Supply Chain |
|
Reza Yaesoubi and Ted Cohen (Runner-up) |
Framework for Real-Time Decision Making During Epidemics |
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Joel Goh and Stefanos A. Zenios (Finalist) |
Active Postmarketing Drug Surveillance for Multiple Adverse Events |
|
Amin Khademi, Denis R. Saure, Andrew J. Schaefer, Mark Roberts, and Scott Braithwaite (Finalist) |
HIV Treatment Allocation in Resource-limited Settings |
| 2011 |
Douglas Bish, Ebru Bish, Shiguang Xi, and Anthony Slonim |
Optimal Selection of Screening Assays for Infectious Agents in Donated Blood |
|
Donald Lee and Stefanos Zenios (Runner-up) |
An Evidence‐Based Incentive System for Medicare’s End‐Stage Renal Disease Program |
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Oguzhan Alagoz, Fatih Erenay, and Adnan Said (Finalist) |
Optimizing Colonoscopy Screening for Colorectal Cancer |
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Dimitris Bertsimas, Vivek F. Farias, and Nikos Trichakis (Finalist) |
Fairness, Efficiency and Flexibility in Organ Allocation for Kidney Transplantation |
| 2010 |
Soroush Saghafian, Wallace Hopp, Mark Van Oyen and Jeffrey Desmond and Steven Kronick |
Patient Streaming as a Mechanism for Improving Responsiveness in Emergency Departments |
| 2009 |
Mariel Lavieri, Martin Puterman, Scott Tyldesley and William Morris |
When to Treat Prostate Cancer Patients Based on their PSA Dynamics |
| 2008 |
Wanpracha Chaovalitwongse, Ya-Jun Fan, and Rajesh Sachdeo |
Novel Optimization Models for Abnormal Brain Activity Classification Spending and Disparity |
| 2007 |
Chris P. Lee and Stefanos Zenios |
A Shadow Price Framework for Quantifying Health Care Demand, Spending and Disparity |
| 2006 |
Stephen Chick, Hamed Mamani, and David Simchi-Levi |
Supply Chain Coordination and Influenza Vaccination |
| 2005 |
Eva Lee, Siddhartha Maheshwary, and Jacquelyn Mason |
Emergency Treatment Response and Real-Time Staff Allocation for Bioterrorism and Infectious Disease Outbreak |
| 2004 |
Panos Pardalos, Wanpracha Chaovalitwongse, Leonidas Iasmidis, J. Chris Sackellares, Deng-Shan Shiau, Paul R. Carney, Oleg A. Prokopyev, and Vitaliy A. Yatsenko |
Seizure Warning Algorithm Based on Optimization and Nonlinear Dynamics |
| 2003 |
H. Edwin Romeijn, Ravindra K. Ahuja, James F. Dempsey, and Arvind Kumar |
A Column Generation Approach To Radiation Therapy Treatment Planning Using Aperture Modulation |
| 2002 |
Michael Ferris, Jinho Lim, and David Shepard |
An Optimization Approach for Radiosurgery Treatment Planning |
| 2001 |
Gregory Zaric and Margaret Brandeau |
Optimal Investment in a Portfolio of HIV Prevention Programs |
| 2000 |
Allen Holder |
Designing Radiotherapy Plans with Elastic Constraints and Interior Point Methods |