We have been incredibly fortunate to receive support from the Seth Bonder Foundation, which allowed us to host competitions such as mini-poster. We hope to continue/upgrade the competition in the upcoming months, so keep an eye out. In Fall 2024, we had 8 high-quality submissions in the undergraduate, master’s and Ph.D. categories. Thank you all for your excellent work and for submitting it to our competition. Candidates were required to design one letter-sized page to communicate their research topic to a broader audience in the OR/MS community. A group of judges chose the winners based on the novelty of the topic, maturity of the content, quality of the information, engagement, and aesthetics.
PhD Category
1st Place
Hyunhwa Kim, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
"A Two-Echelon Bidirectional Energy Supply Problem with Uncrewed Electric Aerial and Ground Vehicles"
2nd Place
Brian Popick, Air Force Institute of Technology
"Assessing the Calibration and Performance of Attention-based Spatiotemporal Neural Networks for Lightning Prediction"
Honorable Mentions
Mohammed Mohiuddin, University of Louisville
"An Economic Equilibrium Model for Reverse Logistics System for Electric Vehicle Batteries"
Lingchao Mao, Georgia Institute of Technology
"MMTrip: Multi-Modal Trip Planner"
Master’s Category
1st Place
Joshua Combs, Air Force Institute of Technology
"Reinforcement Learning for Team Based Air Combat Maneuvering Decisions with Directed Energy Weaponry"
Undergraduate Category
1st Place
Minghua Zhang, University of Wisconsin-Madison
"Healthcare Referral Networks: Engaging private providers in low-and-middle-income countries"
2nd Place
Logan Labossiere, McGill University
"Decentralized Stochastic Optimization of Mining Complexes Using Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning"
Honorable Mentions
Satyam Dave, Purdue University
"The Visual Transformation of Children’s Bible Tales Using AI"
Judges
| PhD Category
| Master’s/Undergraduate Categories
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Mini-poster Competition | 1st Place (Ph.D.): Hyunhwa Kim (Author Acknowledgements: Denissa Purba, Eleftheria Kontou)
Mini-poster Competition | 1st Place (Master’s): Joshua Combs (Advisor: Dr. Matthew)
Mini-poster Competition | 1st Place (Undergraduate): Minghua Zhang (Author Acknowledgements: Justin J. Boutilier)
