Awards

Awards

Dissertation Award

The Doctoral Dissertation Award for Operations Research in Telecommunications and Network Analytics is awarded by the INFORMS Technical Section on Telecommunications and Network Analytics Conferences to recognize the outstanding scholarly achievements of young researchers in the field. 

2023 Award

The 2023 Dissertation Award was given during the INFORMS Annual Meeting, October 15-18, 2023, Phoenix, Arizona, and the winner of the award was:

  • Dr. Hamidreza Validi, Oklahoma State University, Imposing Connectivity In Network Design Problems

The award selection committee included:

  • Michael R. Bartolacci, Professor, Penn State Berks

  • Mauricio G. C. Resende, INFORMS Fellow, Amazon Scientist, University of Washington Affiliate Professor

  • Bernard Fortz, Professor, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium

Past Winners:

2020

Lei You, Uppsala Universitet (Sweden)
2018 Martim Joyce-Moniz, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
2014 Manuel Kutschka, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
2012 Young Myoung Ko, Texas A&M University, TX, USA
2010 Fabio D’Andreagiovanni, Sapienza Universita di Roma,
Rome, Italy
2004 Alexander Hall, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Switzerland
2006 Ramesh Johari, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA
2002 Andreas Eisenblätter, Zuse Institut Berlin (ZIB), Germany
Fan Zhang, Columbia University, USA

Application Process

  • More details to be announced when the next award is available. 

Best Paper Award

The INFORMS Technical Section on Telecommunications and Network Analytics Best Paper Award will be given to an outstanding paper applying OR techniques in the context of telecommunications. The paper must have been published in a refereed journal and written in English.  The paper must present innovative OR approaches to complex problems in all topics related to the field of telecommunications including, but not being limited to: telecommunications modeling, policy, and technology, network economics, network design, algorithms, and optimization, sensor networks, wireless and broadband networks, vehicle and mobile computing, semantic networks, network survivability and reliability, information security and privacy, quality of service, internet, and multimedia, data mining applications in networks. 

2023 Winner

The 2023 Best Paper Award Award was given during the INFORMS Annual Meeting, October 15-18, 2023, in Phoenix, Arizona, and the winner of the award was:

  • Maryam Daryalal (HEC Montréal), Hamed Pouya (Ciena Canada), Marc-Antoine De Santis (Ciena Canada), Network Migration Problem: A Hybrid Logic-based Benders Decomposition Approach, Informs Journal of Computing, 27 Mar 2023.

The finalists were: 

  • S. Raghavan, Rui Zhang (2022) Rapid Influence Maximization on Social Networks: The Positive Influence Dominating Set Problem. INFORMS Journal on Computing 34(3):1345-1365.
  • Raka Jovanovic, Antonio P. Sanfilippo, Stefan Voß, Fixed set search applied to the clique partitioning problem, European Journal of Operational Research, 309(1), 2023, 65-81.

The members of the Best Paper Award Committee are:

  • Alessandro Hill (Chair), California Polytechnic State University
  • Carlos Eduardo de Andrade, AT&T Labs, Inc.
  • Natarajan Gautam, Syracuse University
  • Dilek Gunnec, Ozyegin University

Past Winners

2023 INFORMS Annual Meeting
Daryalal, Maryam, Hamed Pouya, and Marc Antoine DeSantis. "Network migration problem: A hybrid logic-based benders decomposition approach." INFORMS Journal on Computing 35, no. 3 (2023): 593-613.
2022 INFORMS Annual Meeting
Zhengyuan Zhou, Panayotis Mertikopoulos, Aris L. Moustakas, Nicholas Bambos, and Peter Glynn, "Robust Power Management via Learning and Game Design," Operations Research, Vol. 69, No. 1, pp. 331-345, 2021
2019 INFORMS Annual Meeting M. Pioro , Y. Fouquet, D. Nace , M. Poss “Optimizing Flow Thinning Protection in Multicommodity Networks with Variable Link Capacity”, Operations Research, Vol. 64, No. 2, pp. 273-279, 2016
2016 INFORMS Telecommunications Conference Si Chen, Ivana Ljubić, and S. Raghavan, "The Generalized Regenerator Location Problem," INFORMS Journal on Computing, vol. 27, pp. 204-220, 2015.
2014 INFORMS Annual Meeting F. D'Andreagiovanni, C. Mannino, and A. Sassano, "Gub Covers and Power-Indexed Formulations for Wireless Network Design," Management Science, vol. 59, pp. 142-156, 2013.

Best Student Paper Award

The INFORMS Technical Section on Telecommunications and Network Analytics Best Student Paper Award will be given to an outstanding paper applying OR techniques in the context of telecommunications. The paper must have been published in a refereed journal and written in English.  The paper must present innovative OR approaches to complex problems in all topics related to the field of telecommunications, including, but not being limited to: telecommunications modeling, policy, and technology, network economics, network design, algorithms, and optimization, sensor networks, wireless and broadband networks, vehicle and mobile computing, semantic networks, network survivability and reliability, information security and privacy, quality of service, internet and multimedia, data mining applications in telecommunications networks. The best student paper award will be judged at the biennial telecommunications conference and presented during the annual business meeting.