Dear Colleagues,
We are excited to announce the finalists of the 2024 Public Sector Operations Research Best Video competition. The quality and artistry of all the submissions were truly impressive, making the decision very difficult. We are thankful to the PSOR community for their votes and to our incredible judges who devoted considerable effort to helping us through two rounds of judging: Arielle Anderer, Asa Palley, Can Zhang, Faidra Monachou, Gloria Urrea, Somya Singhvi.
We will announce the results at the PSOR Business Meeting/Breakfast at the upcoming INFORMS annual meeting on Monday, October 21st, from 8 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. Please plan on attending the PSOR Best Video Competition Session on Sunday, October 20th, 12:45 PM - 2:00 PM, in room Summit 345 where you will be able to view the videos and hear the finalists present their work.
Here are the four finalists (listed alphabetically by title):
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"Reducing Food Waste in Production: A Field Experiment in Ghana" Link
Authors: Lily (Xinming) Liu (MIT), Mahyar Eftekhar (Arizona State University), Karen Zheng (MIT), and Richard Boso (Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology)
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"Search and Matching for Adoption from Foster Care" Link
Authors: Ludwig Dierks (University of Illinois at Chicago), Nils Olberg (University of Zurich), Sven Seuken (Cornell University), Vincent W. Slaugh (Cornell University), M. Utku Ünver (Boston College)
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"Technology enabled agent-choice and uptake of social assistance programs" Link
Authors: Rakesh Allu (Cornell University), Maya Ganesh (Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad), Sarang Deo (Indian School of Business), Sripad Devalkar (Indian School of Business)
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"Workload Management and Human-Algorithm Collaboration in Child Welfare Screening" Link
Authors: Yanhan (Savannah) Tang (SMU Cox School of Business), Zoey Jiang (Carnegie Mellon University, Tepper School of Business), Alan Scheller-Wolf (Carnegie Mellon University, Tepper School of Business)
Congratulations finalists and thanks again to everyone who entered and made this contest possible!
Best regards,
Scott and Akshaya
Co-Chairs, 2024 PSOR Best Paper Award Competition
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AKSHAYA SURESH
Associate Operations Researcher
RAND Corporation
Washington DC
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