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Finalists: POMS College of Supply Chain Management 2023 Best Student Paper Competition

  • 1.  Finalists: POMS College of Supply Chain Management 2023 Best Student Paper Competition

    Posted 05-11-2023 13:00

    We would like to invite you to attend presentations of the finalists of the 2023 POMS College of SCM Best Student Paper Competition at the upcoming 33rd Annual POMS Conference in Orlando, FL. 

    A jury of four faculty members will evaluate the finalists' presentations to determine the winners of this competition.



    Date: Tuesday, May 23rd, 2023
    Track: Supply Chain Management
    Session: 11:30 am-1:00 pm, College of SCM Student Paper Competition


    11:30 AM - 11:50 AM EDT
    Ragip Gurlek (Emory University): How Much did Store Closures Boost Online Sales during COVID-19? (joint work with Diwas S. KC and Paolo Letizia)

    11:50 AM - 12:10 PM EDT
    Audrey Bazerghi (Northwestern University): Last Time Buys during Product Rollovers: Manufacturer and Supplier Equilibria (joint work with Jan A. Van Mieghem)

    12:10 PM - 12:30 PM EDT
    Leann Thayaparan (Massachusetts Institute of Technology): UMOTEM: Upper Bounding Method for Optimizing over Tree Ensemble Models and its Applications in Pricing and Supply Chain (joint work with Georgia Perakis)

    12:30 PM - 12:50 PM EDT
    Keno Theile (Kühne Logistics University): Supply Chain Risk and Resolution: An Empirical Study of Stock Market Reactions (joint work with Christian Hofer, Vinod R. Singhal, and Kai Hoberg)

    We are grateful to the following reviewers who helped to evaluate the papers submitted to this competition and select the finalists:

    Jiaru Bai, Robert Bray, Junyu Cao, George Chen, Wang Chi Cheung, So Yeon Chun, Yao Cui, Fei Gao, Sanjith Gopalakrishnan, Vishal Gupta, Bin Hu, Dan Iancu, Aditya Jain, Michael Kim, Guangwen Kong, Stanley Lim, Sheng Liu, Mengshi Lu, Vidya Mani, Sami Najafi, Karthik Natarajan, Jie Ning, Wei Qi, Nikos Trichakis, Joline Uichanco, Iris Wang, Shouqiang Wang, Yimin Wang, Yehua Wei, Jing Wu, Yuqian Xu, Luyi Yang, Safak Yucel.

    Shiliang (John) Cui & Joel Goh
    Competition Co-Chairs



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    Tharanga Rajapakshe
    Associate Professor
    University of Florida
    Gainesville FL
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