Dear Colleagues,
I am delighted to announce the composition of the Industry Judge Panel of the 2025 M&SOM Practice-Based Research Competition, which includes Jillian Berry Jaeker (Takeda), Nicolas Stier (Meta) and Théophane Weber (Google DeepMind).
On behalf of the competition's Academic Committee (Adam Elmachtoub, Feryal Erhun, Marshall Fisher, Jónas Oddur Jónasson, Jun Li, Tugce Martagan and Teo Chung Piaw), I am also delighted to announce the selected Finalists for this competition and the schedule of their presentations before the Industry Judge Panel as part of the upcoming 2025 MSOM Conference at the London Business School:
Saturday, June 28 2025 (London times)
Location: Lecture Theater LT12, North Building, London Business School, London NW1 4SA
Session SAA.11
8:30 am - 9:00 am: "Cancer Screening Outreach Guided by Machine Learning: The Benefits of Proactive Care" by Minje Park, Carri Chan, Keith Boell, Elliot Mitchell, Abdul Tariq and David Vawdrey (presenter Minje Park)
9:00 am - 9:30 am: "Enhancing Volunteer Retention: The Role of Experienced Volunteers" by Vinit Tipnis, Christopher Chen and Fei Gao Fei (presenter Christopher Chen)
9:30 am - 10:00 am: "Data-Driven Pricing for Availability-Based Upgrades Under a Multiple Binary Choice Model with Copula" by Ruxian Wang, Ovunc Yilmaz, Zifeng Zhao, Farbod Ekbatani and Andrew Vakhutinsky (presenter Ovunc Yilmaz)
Session SAB.11
10:30 am - 11:00 am: "Contextual Stochastic Optimization for Omnichannel Multi-Courier Order Fulfillment Under Delivery Time Uncertainty" by Tinghan Ye, Sikai Cheng, Amira Hijazi and Pascal Van Hentenryck (presenter Pascal Van Hentenryck)
11:00 am - 11:30 am: "Flexible Data Aggregation for Prediction and Decision Making with Contextual Information: Applications in Retailing" by Ying Rong, Zhenkang Peng, Chengzhang Li, Zichao Luo, Guangrui Ma and Mingyong Zhao (presenter Ying Rong)
11:30 am - 12:00 pm: "The Non-Linear Impact of Promised Delivery Time on Online Purchasing" by Shin Oblander and Kinshuk Jerath (presenter Shin Oblander)
The final results of the competition will be announced during the business meeting of the MSOM Society to be held at the conference later that day.
Best regards,
Jérémie Gallien
Chair, 2025 M&SOM Practice-Based Research Competition
Department Editor, M&SOM Practice Department (with Pavitra Harsha and Ananth Raman)
Co-Chair, 2025 MSOM Conference (with Alex Yang)
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Jérémie Gallien
Professor of Management Science & Operations
London Business School
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