Dear colleagues,
We are delighted to announce the results of the 2023 PSOR Best Paper and Best Video Competitions. Congratulations to all!
Best Paper Competition
1st Place: Planning Bike Lanes With Data: Ridership, Congestion, and Path Selection by Sheng Liu, Auyon Siddiq, and Jingwei Zhang
Honorable Mention: Leapfrogging for Last-Mile Delivery in Health Care: Drone Delivery for Blood Products in Rwanda by Harriet Jeon, Claudio Lucarelli, Jean-Baptiste Mazarati, Donatien Ngabo, and Hummy Song
Finalist: Treatment Planning of Victims with Heterogeneous Time-sensitivities in Mass Casualty Incidents by Yunting Shi, Nan Liu, and Guohua Wan
Finalist: Dynamic Budget Allocation for Public Health Procurement: A Multi-Product Inventory Model with Partial Backlogging by Iva Rashkova and Jérémie Gallien
Finalist: Food Subsidies at the Base-of-the-Pyramid: Take-up, Substitution Effects and Nutrition by Ali Aouad, Kamalini Ramdas, and Alp Sungu
Best Video Competition Sponsored by UC3M
1st Place: Improving Access to Volunteers by Akshaya Suresh, Vahideh Manshadi, Scott Rodilitz, and Daniela Saban. Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HN_WVggyL4A
Finalist: Operations Research in Milk Banking by Timothy Chan, Rachel Wong, Rafid Mahmood, Ian Zhu, Debbie Stone, Deborah O'Connor, and Sharon Unger. Link: https://youtu.be/HwHTtlrUojo
Finalist: Disrupting Sex Trading Recruitment Using Community-Based Resources by Barış Tezcan, Kayse Lee Maass, Madeline Zhang, Molly Hodsden, Rachael Cheung, Amy Farrell, Thomas Sharkey, Yongjia Song, Lauren Martin, and Kelle Barrick. Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cz9wKfk2o1k
Finalist: Improving Emergency Department Flow by Jacob Jameson, Soroush Saghafian, and Nicole Hodgson. Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=do6j8G9qUoM
Special Thank You To
Co-Chairs of the Best Paper Competition: Yanhan (Savannah) Tang and Alan Scheller-Wolf
Chair of the Best Video Competition: Phebe Vayanos
Each Judge
Each Voter
We are grateful for your support in helping highlight the best of public sector operations research.
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Emily Tucker
Assistant Professor, Clemson University
Vice President of Communications, PSOR
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