Best Cluster Paper Award

2024 First Place

Winning material: Keep the Water Flowing: The Hidden Crisis of Rural Water Management

2024 First Place

Winning material: Operating Three-sided Marketplace: Pricing and Spatial Staffing in Food Delivery Systems

Purpose of the Award

This award is a competitive award, started in 2013, which is based on the best papers submitted to the Section's sponsored cluster at the INFORMS Annual Meeting.

Application process:

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Past Awardees

2024 First Place
Chengcheng Zhai, Kelley School of Business, Indiana University Rodney Parker, Indiana University
 Kurt Bretthauer, Indiana University
 Alfonso Pedraza-Martinez, Indiana University Jorge Mejia, Indiana University
Zhe Liu, Imperial College London
 Yiwen Shen, Columbia University Yanwei Sun, Imperial College London
2024 Third Place
Shixin Wang, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Shixin Wang, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Jiankun Sun, Imperial College Xinyu Cao, New York University Chenshan Hu, University of Washington St. Louis Dennis Zhang, University of Washington St. Louis
2024 Finalist
Amine Bennouna, MIT
 Georgia Perakis, MIT/ Sloan School of Management
 Dessislava Pachamanova, Babson College Omar Skali Lami, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Yi-Chun Akchen, UCL
 Dmitry Mitrofanov, Leonard N. Stern School of Business, New York University
Junyu Cao, Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, University of California, Berkeley
 Sheng Liu
Bo Lin, University of Toronto
 Timothy Chan, University of Toronto
 Shoshanna Saxe, University of Toronto
Chao Wu, Wayne State University
 Mahyar Eftekhar , Arizona State University
 Joline Uichanco
Chao Wu, Wayne State University
 Mahyar Eftekhar , Arizona State University
 Joline Uichanco
2023 First Place
Miao Bai, American University of Beirut
Dongwook Shin, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
2023 Second Place
Guillaume Roels, UCLA Anderson School of Management
Morvarid Rahmani, Georgia Institute of Technology
2023 Finalist
Wen Zhang, Baylor University
Cheng Hua, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Youngsoo Kim, University of Alabama
Serguei Netessine, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
2021 First Place
Qiuping Yu, Georgia Institute of Technology
Luyi Yang
2021 Third Place
Pnina Feldman
2021 Finalist
Seokjun Youn, University of Arizona
Zhenzhen Jia, Fudan University
Zhimei Ren, Stanford University
Wenhao Li, City University of Hong Kong
Bhavani Shanker Uppari, Singapore Management University
Ruihao Zhu, Purdue University
Shiliang Cui
Yao Cui, Cornell SC Johnson College of Business
Yiwen Shen, Columbia University
Warut Khern-am-nuai, McGill University
Aditya Vedantam, University at Buffalo
Nitin Bakshi, London Business School
Rowena Gan
2018 Winner(s)
Tamar Cohen-Hillel Georgia Perakis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Kiran Panchamgam
Maxime C. Cohen, McGill University Michael D. Fiszer Baek Jung Kim
2018 Runner-Up
Selin Merdan, University of Michigan Christine Barnett , University of Michigan Brian T. Denton, University of Michigan  James E. Montie, University of Michigan David C. Miller , University of Michigan
2018 Finalist
Zhong-Zhong Jiang Guangwen Kong, University of Minnesota Yinghao Zhang
Luyi Yang Zhongbin Wang Shiliang Cui
Saif Benjaafar, University of Michigan Jian-Ya Ding Guangwen Kong, University of Minnesota Terry Taylor , University of California - Berkeley
Jianfu Wang Ming Hu, University of Toronto
Jon M. Stauffer Aly Megahed, IBM Research Chelliah Sriskandarajah, University of Texas at Dallas Ahmed Nazeem
Adam Elmachtoub, Columbia Vishal Gupta, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Michael L. Hamilton
2017 Winner(s)
Anna Papush, Georgia Perakis, and Pavithra Harsha
2016 Winner(s)
Lennart Baardman Maxime C. Cohen, McGill University Georgia Perakis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Kiran Panchamgam Danny Segev