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ICS Harvey J. Greenberg Research Award

  • 1.  ICS Harvey J. Greenberg Research Award

    Posted 05-31-2024 16:24

    Dear colleagues, 

    The Harvey J Greenberg Research Award is a recently established annual award that honors research excellence in the field of computation and operations research applications, especially those in emerging application fields. Honored research would focus on contributions that exhibit the promise of making a significant impact in the scope of OR/MS/Analytics practice. The award is accompanied by a certificate and a $1,000 honorarium. The award will be presented at the Informs Computing Society (ICS) Business Meeting that will take place during the INFORMS Annual Meeting in Seattle, October 20-23, 2024. The winner is expected to make their own travel arrangements to the INFORMS meeting. For more details on this award and its generous sponsors, check out

    https://connect.informs.org/computing/awards/greenberg-research-award.

    The deadline for nominations is 11:59 pm EDT, July 1st, 2024.

    Conditions for eligibility:

    * At least one author on a submitted paper must be an INFORMS member. 

    * Individuals who won the ICS Prize within two years of the submission date, or who are chosen to win the ICS Prize in the current award year, are ineligible for the award.

    Nomination process:

    A submission for this award consists of (1) a single research paper and (2) a summary statement prepared for the award committee. The paper must have been accepted for publication at the time of submission in a refereed journal, book, or conference proceeding. If published, the paper must have appeared in the literature in the year of the award or in the two calendar years preceding the award year. The summary statement must be a brief (no more than 200 words) statement summarizing the innovation and impact of the submitted paper.

    All nominations should be submitted electronically to ics.greenberg.award@gmail.com by 11:59 pm EDT, July 1, 2024. All submissions will be acknowledged by the committee chair. 

    The 2024 Harvey J Greenberg Research Award Committee members, who are former ICS prize winners, are:

    • Esra Buyuktahtakin Toy, Chair (Virginia Tech)

    • Jeff Linderoth (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

    • Zeyu Liu (West Virginia University)

    • Hamidreza Validi (Texas Tech University)

    • Willem-Jan van Hoeve (Carnegie Mellon University)



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    Esra Buyuktahtakin Toy
    Associate Professor
    Grado Department of Industrial & Systems Engineering
    Virginia Tech217 Durham Hall, 1145 Perry Street, Blacksburg, VA 24061
    Phone: 540-231-0483 (office) Fax: 540-231-3322                        email: esratoy@vt.edu
    webpage: https://soml.ise.vt.edu/
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