Doing Good with Good OR - Student Paper Competition

2024 - Winner(s)

2024 Winner(s)

Purpose of the Award

Doing Good with Good OR - Student Paper Competition is held each year to identify and honor outstanding projects in the field of operations research and the management sciences conducted by a student or student group that have a significant societal impact.

Committee Co-Chairs

Vanitha Virudachalam
University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign

Hanisha Tatapudi
Merck

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The projects must have, or are likely to have, a significant societal impact, and operations research and management science methods and tools (broadly interpreted) must be central to the success of the projects described. "Societal impact" should be construed to mean an impact on individuals, communities and organizations that goes beyond that associated with a private-sector for-profit initiative. The projects might also strive to include innovation through theory, creative computational methods, and should address implementation challenges.

An account of the award, citation, recipient, and qualifying service shall be published in OR/MS Today.

 Interfaces: Special issue on Humanitarian Applications: Doing Good with Good OR

Read the May-June 2011 special issue of INFORMS Journal on Advanced Analytics (formerly Interfaces) presenting seven papers that address some of the key problems from the humanitarian and public sectors while suggesting potential solutions and approaches.

Application Process

INFORMS is again sponsoring a competition to encourage student research and practice that has societal impact. The "Doing Good with Good OR Student Competition" will feature the most exciting work performed by students in partnership with public and private organizations that yields tangible and beneficial outcomes for individuals, communities, and organizations. Such work will be infused with OR/MS methods and could appeal to multiple disciplinary and application-area interests.

INFORMS must receive completed submissions for this competition by May 15, 2025. The finalists will be announced by early July 2025 and must submit full papers by September 2025. The competition winner will be selected at the 2025 INFORMS Annual Meeting.

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Past Awardees

2024
Winner(s)
Yiqi Tian, University of Pittsburgh
Runner-Up
Tsai-Hsuan (Angel) Chung, University of Pennsylvania
Honorable Mention
Baizhi Song, London Business School
Mateo Dulce Rubio, Carnegie Mellon University
2023
Winner(s)
Aysu Ozel, Northwestern University
2022
First Place
Bonn Kleiford Seranilla, University of Luxembourg
2021
First Place
Lily Xu, Harvard University
Runner-Up
Omar Skali Lami, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Honorable Mention
Paul Gölz, Carnegie Mellon University
Rebecca Alcock, University of Wisconsin-Madison
2020
First Place
Emma Gibson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Runner-Up
Daniel Duque, Northwestern University
Honorable Mention
A. Cem Randa, University of California San Francisco and University of California Berkeley
Jean Pauphilet, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2019
Winner(s)
Somya Singhvi, University of Southern California
2018
Winner(s)
Ignacio Rios, Stanford University
2017
First Place
Can Zhang, Georgia Institute of Technology
Second Place
Honorable Mention
2016
First Place
Christine Barnett , University of Michigan
Selin Merdan, University of Michigan
Finalist
Oguzhan Alagoz, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Honorable Mention
Michal Tzur, Tel Aviv University
Ohad Eisenhandler, Tel Aviv University
2015
First Place
Chenxi Zeng, Georgia Institute of Technology and Amazon Web Services
Second Place
Tong Wang, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Finalist
Caleb Mbuvi, Georgia Tech
Charmaine Chan, Georgia Tech
Chu Qian, Georgia Tech
Ivan Renaldi, Georgia Tech
Javeria Javeria, Georgia Tech
Jonathan Sutomo, Georgia Tech
Kimberly Adelaar, Georgia Tech
Matt Daniels, Georgia Tech
Yuanhui Zhang, North Carolina State University
Honorable Mention
Allen Liu, Georgia Tech
Emilie Wurmser, Georgia Tech
James Micali, Georgia Tech
Jisu J. Park, Georgia Tech
Mengnan Shen, Georgia Tech
Sung Keun Baek, Georgia Tech
Tianshu Sun, University of Maryland
Xiaoyang Li, Georgia Tech
Yunjie Sun, Georgia Tech
2014
First Place
Eoin O'Mahony, Cornell University
Second Place
Andrew Fox, Northwestern University
Feyza Guliz Sahinyazan, McGill University
Tessa Swanson, Northwestern University
Finalist
Bismark Singh, University of Texas at Austin
Hsin-Chan Huang, University of Texas at Austin
Yuvraj Singh, Georgia Tech
2013
First Place
Peng Shi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Second Place
Alvaro Echeverria, Universidad de Chile
Finalist
Armagan Bayram, University of Massachusetts Amherst
David Morrison, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Fatemeh S. Hashemi, Virginia Tech
Vincent Slaugh, Carnegie Mellon University
2012
First Place
Greggory Schell, University of Michigan
Jonathan Helm, Indiana University Health
Second Place
Russell Harpring, University of Louisville
Finalist
Alex Mills, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Daphne Sniekers, University of Toronto
Honorable Mention
Amber Kunkel, Rice University
Duo Wu, Rice University
Elizabeth Van Itallie, Rice University
Mehmet Ayvaci, University of Texas at Dallas
2011
First Place
Turgay Ayer, Georgia Institute of Technology
Second Place
Hannah J. Wong, Massachusetts General Hospital
Finalist
Kathleen Hendrix, Georgia Institute of Technology
Soroush Saghafian, Harvard University
Honorable Mention
Sabina S. Alistar, Stanford University
2010
First Place
Jonathan Turner, Northwestern University
Second Place
Dani Slaton, Georgia Institute of Technology
Jordan Stone, Georgia Institute of Technology
Rene Alvarenga, Georgia Institute of Technology
Finalist
Carleton Coffrin, Brown University
Gregory Werker, University of British Columbia
Jingyu Zhang, North Carolina State University
Honorable Mention
Justin Henriques, University of Virginia
2009
First Place
David Hutton, Stanford University
Finalist
Charles Stewart, Virginia Commonwealth University
James Springer, Virginia Commonwealth University
Murat Kurt, University of Pittsburgh
Rachel Bullene, Virginia Commonwealth University
Toni Sorrell, Virginia Commonwealth University
Yasser Tanvir, Virginia Commonwealth University
Honorable Mention
Diana Negoescu, Princeton University
Faramroze G. Engineer, University of Newcastle
Peter Frazier, Princeton University