INFORMS Computing Society Student Paper Award

The INFORMS Computing Society (ICS) Student Paper Award is given annually to the best paper on computing and operations research by a student author, as judged by a panel of the ICS. The award is sponsored by the Mica Foundation of Denmark and is accompanied by a plaque and a $500 honorarium. The winner will be invited to briefly present his or her paper in an ICS-sponsored session at the INFORMS Annual Meeting held in the fall, and the award will be presented at the ICS Business Meeting. The winner will also receive free registration to the next ICS Conference. The judging Panel may name Honorable Mentions, if deemed deserving. All students working on topics relating to the interface of OR and computing are encouraged to submit a paper.

Conditions for eligibility

  1. the entrant must have been a student on or after January 1 of the year under consideration;
  2. the paper must present original research results;
  3. the research must have been conducted while the entrant was a student;
  4. the paper must be written by the entrant with only minor outside editorial assistance (one or more advisors may appear as co-authors of a paper, but the student must be the 'first author');
  5. the entrant can be a (co-)author in at most one paper submitted to the competition;
  6. the paper must not have won a previous ICS Student Award;
  7. the entrant must be an ICS member in the year the submission is made. Note that ICS student membership costs just $1.

Application Process

The paper should be 30 pages or less (1 inch margins, double spaced, and 12 point font) and in the standard format of the INFORMS Journal on Computing. Entrants must submit to the Committee Chair in the year of the award:

  1. an electronic copy (a Postscript or Pdf file) of one paper to be received no later than June 30 at midnight (EDT);
  2. an email address and phone number where the entrant can be contacted in the event they are selected as a finalist;
  3. a letter signed by both faculty advisor and the entrant attesting that the seven eligibility conditions are met.

The ICS exists to support research and practice activity on the interface of operations research and computer science. The congenial and active organization of over 500 members welcomes student members and their involvement in all aspects of the organization.

Contact Information 2009

Professor Alexander Shapiro
School of Industrial and Systems Engineering 443 Grosecloe Bldg Georgia Tech Atlanta, GA 30332-0205 (USA) Phone: 404-8946544 Fax: 404-8942301 email: icsStudentAward@mail.informs.org  

2009 ICS Student Paper Award Committee to be announced...

Contact Information 2008

Professor David Morton
Graduate Program in Operations Research 1 University Station, C2200 The University of Texas at Austin Austin, TX 78712-0292 (USA) Phone: 512-471-4104 Fax: 512-471-8727 email: icsStudentAward@mail.informs.org  

2008 ICS Student Paper Award Committee

  • David Morton, Chair (The University of Texas at Austin)
  • Alper Atamturk (University of California, Berkeley)
  • Nick Sahinidis (Carnegie Mellon University)

Contact Information 2007

Professor Jonathan Eckstein
Management Sciences and Information Systems Rutgers Business School 255 J.H. Levin Building 94 Rockafellar Road, Livingston Campus Rutgers University Piscataway, NJ 08854 (USA) Phone: (732) 445-0510 Fax: (732) 445-6329 email: jeckstei@rutcor.rutgers.edu  

2007 ICS Student Paper Award Committee

  • Jonathan Eckstein (Rutgers University)
  • Michael Trick (Carnegie Mellon University)
  • Jeff Linderoth (Lehigh University)

20008 ICS Student Paper Award Winner

The 2007 ICS Student Paper Award Winner is Guanghui Lan (Georgia Institute of Technology) for the paper "Efficient Methods for Stochastic Composite Optimization" .

Advisors: Arkadi Nemirovski, Renato Monteiro and Alexander Shapiro

Award

2007 ICS Student Paper Award Winner

The 2007 ICS Student Paper Award Winner is Amit Partani for the paper "Adaptive Jackknife Estimators for Stochastic Programming".

Advisor: David Morton

Award

Runners-up:

  • Andrea Bettinelli for "A Branch-and-Price Algorithm for the Two-Dimensional Level Strip Packing Algorithm"
  • Richa Agarwal for "Ship Scheduling and Network Design for Cargo Routing in Liner Shipping"

2006 ICS Student Paper Award Winner

2006 ICS Student Paper Award Winner Geng Deng for the paper "Variable-Number Sample-Path Optimization".

Advisor: Michael C. Ferris.

Runners-up:

  • Jiaqiao Hu, University of Maryland, College Park, for the paper "A Model Reference Adaptive Search Method for Global Optimization"
    Adviors Steven Marcus and Michael Fu.
  • Laura A. McLay, University of Illinois, for the paper "An Analysis of Knapsack Problems with Set-Up Weights"
    Advisor Sheldon H. Jacobson.

2006 ICS Student Paper Award Committee:

  • David Woodruff (Chair)
  • David Gay
  • David Shanno