Dear INFORMS members,
We are pleased to announce the four finalist teams for the 2025 INFORMS Data Mining and Decision Analysis (DMDA) Workshop Data Competition Award.The final rankings will be determined at the DMDA Workshop, based on the combined quality of each team's written report and oral presentation.
The finalists are listed below in alphabetical order by the team lead's first name:
Haoran Ye (National University of Singapore), Qiuzhuang Sun (Singapore Management University), and Yang Yang (University of Macau)
Sarathkumar Devaraj, Ankit Rajan, Dervis Ozay, Bharani Nammi, and Bhonagiri Ravikiran (University of Texas at Arlington)
Setareh Kazemi Kheiri (University of Pittsburgh) and Sahand Hajifar (Park University)
Tomas Kaljevic, Shourya Bose, and Yu Zhang (University of California, Santa Cruz)
Congratulations to the four finalist teams for their outstanding work! We encourage you to attend the DMDA Workshop to support the teams and see their innovative solutions.
The 2025 DMDA Data Competition Steering Committee
Alinson Santos Xavier (axavier@anl.gov), Argonne National Laboratory
Feng Qiu (fqiu@anl.gov), Argonne National Laboratory
Hieu Pham (hieu.pham@uah.edu), University of Alabama in Huntsville
Shouyi Wang (shouyiw@uta.edu), University of Texas at Arlington
Shuyi Chen (shuyic@alumni.cmu.edu), Carnegie Mellon University
Woody Zhu (shixianz@andrew.cmu.edu), Carnegie Mellon University
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Shixiang Woody Zhu
Assistant Professor
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh PA
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