Past Awards
2022
SAS Data Mining Best Paper Award:
Winner(s)
Winning material:
Improving Human Decision-Making with Machine Learning
2021
Best Working Paper Award:
First Place
Winning material:
Learning Best Practices: Can Machine Learning Improve Human Decision-Making?
Pierskalla Best Paper Award:
Winner(s)
Winning material:
Deploying a Reinforcement Learning System for COVID-19 Testing at the Greek Border
Daniel H. Wagner Prize for Excellence in the Practice of Advanced Analytics and Operations Research:
Winner(s)
Citation:
Winning Paper:
Interpretable OR for High-Stakes Decisions: Designing the Greek COVID-19 Testing System
Public Sector Operations Research Best Paper Award:
Second Place
Winning material:
Deploying a Reinforcement Learning System for COVID-19 Testing at the Greek Border
Public Sector Operations Research Best Paper Award:
Honorable Mention
Winning material:
Unmasking human trafficking risk in commercial sex supply chains with machine learning
Best Working Paper:
Winner(s)
Winning material:
Learning Best Practices: Can Machine Learning Improve Human Decision-Making?
2020
Public Sector Operations Research Best Paper Award:
Finalist
Winning material:
Adaptive Clinical Trial Designs with Surrogates
2019
Pierskalla Best Paper Award:
Winner(s)
Winning material:
Adaptive Clinical Trial Designs with Surrogates: When Should We Bother?
2018
Pierskalla Best Paper Award:
Finalist
Winning material:
Interpreting Predictive Models for Human-in-the-Loop Analytics
2017
IBM Best Student Paper Award Competition:
First Place
Winning material:
“Online Decision-making with High-dimensional Covariates”
2016
George Nicholson Student Paper Competition:
First Place
Winning material:
“Online Decision-Making with High-Dimensional Covariates”
Pierskalla Best Paper Award:
Winner(s)
Winning material:
“Online Decision-Making with High-Dimensional Covariates”
MSOM Student Paper Competition:
First Place
Winning material:
“Online Decision-Making with High-Dimensional Covariates”
2015
HAS Student Paper Competition:
First Place
Winning material:
Evidence of Strategic Behavior In Medicare Claims Reporting