Dear colleagues,
We are pleased to announce the finalists of the 2024 INFORMS TIMES Best Working Paper Competition. We would like to thank our amazing panel of judges for their valuable contribution in the evaluation process. The finalists in alphabetical order are as follows:
1) Exploit or Explore? An Empirical Study of Resource Allocation in Research Labs
Ran Zhuo (University of Michigan)
2) Managing Multihoming Workers in the Gig Economy
Park Sinchaisri (University of California Berkeley), Gad Allon (University of Pennsylvania), Maxime Cohen (McGill University), Ken Moon (University of Pennsylvania)
3) Optimal Prototyping on Experimentation Platforms
Sreekumar Bhaskaran (Southern Methodist University), Sanjiv Erat (University of California San Diego)
4) Using Artificial Intelligence for Reducing Food Waste in Commercial Kitchens
Yu Nu (Cornell University), Elena Belavina (Cornell University), Karan Girotra (Cornell University)
The finalists will present their work at the INFORMS Annual Meeting, Room Summit - 347, on Monday, October 21, 12:45 PM - 2:00 PM. The winners will be announced and awarded at the TIMES business meeting at INFORMS.
Congratulations to the finalists, and we look forward to seeing you for the final presentations.
Best regards,
Zoey Jiang, Sina Khorasani
Co-Chairs, 2024 INFORMS TIMES Best Working Paper Competition
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Sina Moghadas Khorasani
Assistant Professor
Vanderbilt University
Nashville TN
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