Dear colleagues,
We are delighted to announce the results of the 2024 PSOR Best Paper and Best Video Competitions. Congratulations to all!
Best Paper Competition
1st Place: Optimizing Health Supply Chains with Decision-Aware Machine Learning by Tsai-Hsuan Chung, Hamsa Bastani, Osbert Bastani, Jato Abdulai, Patrick Bayoh, Lawrence Sandi, and Francis Smart
Honorable Mention: The Dedicated Docket in US Immigration Courts: An Analysis of Fairness and Efficiency Properties by Daniel Freund and Wentao Weng
Finalist: Improving the Equity and Efficiency of Cystic Fibrosis Screening by Hussein El Hajj, Douglas Bish, and Ebru Bish
Finalist: Redesigning VolunteerMatch's Ranking Algorithm: Toward More Equitable Access to Volunteers by Akshaya Suresh, Vahideh Manshadi, Scott Rodilitz, Daniela Saban
Finalist: Search and Matching for Adoption from Foster Care by Vincent Slaugh, Ludwig Dierks, Nils Olberg, Sven Seuken, and M. Utku Unver
Best Video Competition
1st Place: Technology Enabled Agent-Choice and Uptake of Social Assistance Programs by Rakesh Allu, Maya Ganesh, Sarang Deo, and Sripad Devalkar. Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OitpTux0qDg
Finalist: Search and Matching for Adoption from Foster Care by Vincent Slaugh, Ludwig Dierks, Nils Olberg, Sven Seuken, and M. Utku Unver. Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bg3cYSTRSxI
Finalist: Workload Management and Human-Algorithm Collaboration in Child Welfare Screening by Yanhan (Savannah) Tang, Zoey Jiang, Alan Scheller-Wolf. Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qg9_yXG0ors
Finalist: Reducing Food Waste in Production: A Field Experiment in Ghana by Lily (Xinming) Liu, Mahyar Eftekhar, Karen Zheng, and Richard Boso. Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewqcIC-uuQ8
Special thanks to:
Co-Chairs of the Best Paper Competition: Auyon Siddiq and Jingwei Zhang
Co-Chairs of the Best Video Competition: Scott Rodilitz and Akshaya Suresh
Each Judge
Each Voter
We are grateful for your support in helping highlight the best of public sector operations research!
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Eunae Yoo
Assistant Professor
Indiana University
Bloomington IN
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