Dear Colleagues,
It is our pleasure to announce the finalists for the inaugural DEI Best Student Paper Award.
In alphabetical order of student last name:
Faidra Monachou (Stanford University), with the paper titled, "Dropping Standardized Testing for Admissions Trades Off Information and Access" (co-authors: Nikhil Garg, Hannah Li)
Sean Sinclair (Cornell University), with the paper titled, "Sequential Fair Allocation: Achieving the Optimal Envy-Efficiency Tradeoff Curve" (co-authors: Siddhartha Banerjee, Christina Yu)
Yanhan Tang (Carnegie Mellon University), with the paper titled, "Split Liver Transplantation: An Analytical Decision Support Model" (co-authors: Alan Scheller-Wolf, Sridhar Tayur, Emily Perito, John Roberts)
All finalists will be presenting their work at the INFORMS Conference, in a special DEI session (SB83 on October 16, 11:00 AM–12:15 PM in Room 205 of JW Marriott), and the winner will be announced at the DEIC/MIF Reception on October 16, 7:30–9:30pm.
Please join us in congratulating these students, along with their advisors. We look forward to seeing you at the conference,
Competition Co-chairs: Ebru Bish and Larry Snyder
DEI Ambassadors: Weijun Xie and Grani Hanasusanto
INFORMS Liaison: Ruiwei Jiang
The INFORMS DEI Best Student Paper Award honors outstanding papers on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) and social justice-related issues using OR/MS methodologies and written by a student member. The prizes will be awarded at the 2022 INFORMS Annual Meeting, and all finalists are invited to present their papers at a special session sponsored by the DEI Committee.
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Ebru Bish, Professor,
Dept of Information Systems, Statistics, and Management Science, Culverhouse School of Business
University of Alabama
Tuscaloosa, AL
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