The Decision Analysis Society Student Paper Award is given annually to the best decision analysis paper by a student author, as judged by an award selection committee. The award is accompanied by a plaque and a $500 honorarium. The committee this year included Qiushi Chen, Robert Hammond, John Butler, Sasa Zorc, Joe Hahn (Co-Chair), and Asa Palley (Co-Chair). We received 21 excellent submissions, covering a broad variety of topics.
It is our pleasure to congratulate the winner of this year's student paper award:
Xiaojia Guo, for the paper "Quantile Forecasts of Product Life Cycles Using Exponential Smoothing," co-authored with Casey Lichtendahl and Yael Grushka-Cockayne.
The committee would also like to recognize two Finalists for the award:
Christoph Werner, for the paper "Sequential Refined Partitioning for probabilistic dependence assessment," co-authored with Tim Bedford and John Quigley,
and
Alireza Boloori, for the paper "Data-Driven Management of Post-Transplant Medications: An APOMDP Approach," co-authored with Soroush Saghafian.
We would also like to extend special thanks Qiushi Chen, Robert Hammond, John Butler, and Sasa Zorc for their service on the committee this year.
Sincerely,
Joe Hahn
Clinical Associate Professor
Department of Finance, McCombs School of Business, The University of Texas at Austin
Email: joe.hahn@mccombs.utexas.edu
Asa Palley
Assistant Professor
Department of Operations & Decision Technologies, Kelley School of Business, Indiana University
Email: apalley@indiana.edu
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Asa Palley
Assistant Professor
Indiana University
Bloomington IN
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