Dear colleagues,
The INFORMS Computing Society (ICS) invites nominations for its 2024 Student Paper Award. The ICS Student Paper Award is given annually to the best paper at the interface of computing and operations research by a student author, as judged by the award selection committee. The award is accompanied by a plaque and a $500 honorarium. The award will be presented at the 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. The winner will also receive free registration to the next ICS Conference. The ICS Student Paper Award is sponsored by the Mica Fonden. For more details on this award, see
https://connect.informs.org/computing/awards/ics-student-paper-award
The deadline for nominations is 11:59 pm EDT, July 1st, 2024.
Each nominated paper should satisfy the following seven eligibility criteria:
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the entrant must have been a student on or after January 1, 2024;
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the paper must present original research;
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the research must have been conducted while the entrant was a student;
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the paper must be written by the entrant with only minor outside editorial assistance (e.g., one or more advisors may appear as co-authors of a paper, but the student must be the "first" or primary author);
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the entrant can be a (co-)author in at most one paper submitted to the competition;
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the paper must not have won a previous ICS Student Paper Award;
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the entrant must be an ICS member by the nomination deadline (July 1, 2024). If the entrant is not an ICS member by this deadline, then his/her nomination will be discarded.
Application Process
Nominations and inquiries should be sent electronically to ics.student.prize@gmail.com no later than 11:59 pm EDT, July 1st, 2024. The nomination packet should include the following:
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the nominated paper (total of 30 pages or less in the standard format of INFORMS Journal on Computing) in pdf;
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an email address and phone number where the entrant can be contacted in the event they are selected as a finalist;
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letter(s) (in pdf format) signed by all co-authors of the paper and the entrant attesting that the seven eligibility conditions are met.
The 2024 ICS Student Paper Award Committee members are:
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Leonardo Lozano, Chair (University of Cincinnati)
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Beste Basciftci (University of Iowa)
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Austin Buchanan (Oklahoma State University)
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Hamed Rahimian (Clemson University)
Best regards,
Leo Lozano (on behalf of the committee)
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Leonardo Lozano
Associate Professor
University of Cincinnati
Cincinnati OH
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