We are proud to announce the 2021 Public Sector OR (PSOR) Best Paper Award finalists. All the finalists will be presenting their work in a special session at INFORMS, ME 05, on Monday October 25th.
In alphabetical order:
- Hamsa Bastani, Kimon Drakopoulos, Vishal Gupta, Jon Vlachogiannis, Christos Hadjicristodoulou, Pagona Lagiou, Gkikas Magiorkinis, Dimitrios Paraskevis, and Sotirios Tsiodras, "Deploying a Reinforcement Learning System for COVID-19 Testing at the Greek Border"
- Hamsa Bastani, Pia Ramchandani and Emily Wyatt, "Unmasking human trafficking risk in commercial sex supply chains with machine learning"
- Amine Bennouna, Joshua Joseph, David Nze-Ndong, Georgia Perakis, Divya Signhvi, Omar Skali Lami, Ioannis Spantidakis, Leann Thayaparan, and Asterios Tsiourvas, "COVID-19: Prediction, Prevalence and the Operations of Vaccine Allocation"
- Bhavani Shanker Uppari, Serguei Netessine, Ioana Popescu, Rowan P. Clarke, "Off-Grid Lighting Business Models to Serve the Poor: Evidence From a Structural Model and Field Experiments in Rwanda"
The award recipient(s) will be announced at the PSOR Business Meeting during the INFORMS Annual Meeting.
Regards,
Somya Singhvi and Karen Zheng (2021 PSOR Best Paper Award Co-Chairs)
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Somya Singhvi
USC Marshall School of Business
Los Angeles CA
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