IBM Best Student Paper Award Competition

Purpose of the Award

The INFORMS Service Science Section announces the  Best Student Paper Award to recognize excellence among its student members.

The INFORMS Service Science Section promotes and disseminates research and applications among professionals interested in theory, methodologies, and applications in Service Science. The Section provides a forum to exchange new ideas in Service Science. 

Application Process

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Past Awardees

2024 Second Place
Bengü Nur Özdemir, IE Business School
2024 Third Place
Rakesh Allu, Cornell University
2024 Finalist
Zongsen Yang, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen
Arseniy Gorbushin, Rotman School of Management
Clare Snyder, University of Michigan Ross School of Business
Lin Chen, INSEAD
Vinit Tipnis, Indiana University Bloomington
Akshaya Suresh, Yale School of Management
Zijie Zhou, MIT Operations Research Center
Mojtaba Abdolmaleki, University of Michigan, Stephen M. Ross School of Business
Arlen Dean, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
2023 First Place
Xiaoquan Gao, Purdue University
2023 Second Place
Jiatao Ding, INSEAD
2023 Third Place
Mohammad Reza Aminian, The University of Chicago
Xinyu Zhang, New York University
2023 Finalist
Shukai Li, Northwestern University
Minmin Zhang, The University of Texas at Dallas
Mo Liu, University of California Berkeley
Jimmy Qin, Columbia University
2022 First Place
Abhishek Deshmane, IESE Business School
2022 Second Place
Jingwei Zhang, University of California, Los Angeles
2022 Third Place
Kan Xu, University of Pennsylvania
Xiao Lei , Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, Columbia University
2022 Finalist
Neha Sharma, Northwestern University
Yueyang Zhong, University of Chicago
Qinyi Chen, MIT
Yanhan (Savannah) Tang, Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University
Zhihan Wang, University of Michigan
2021 First Place
Pia Ramchandani, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
2021 Second Place
Leann Thayaparan, MIT
Hanwei Li, MIT
2021 Finalist
Jinsheng Chen, Columbia
Zhe Wang, Tsinghua
Milad Armaghan
Yunzong Xu, MIT
Amandeep Singh, Upenn
Cungen Zhu, NUS
Arturo Estrada Rodriguez, University College London
Xuan Zhang, Columbia
Alp Sungu, London Business School
Hengda Wen, U Toronto
Neda Mirzaeian , University of Texas at Dallas, Naveen Jindal (PhD from Carnegie Mellon University, Tepper)
Scott Rodilitz, Yale School of Management
2019 Winner(s)
Xiao Lei , Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, Columbia University
Neda Mirzaeian , University of Texas at Dallas, Naveen Jindal (PhD from Carnegie Mellon University, Tepper)
2019 Third Place
Andrew Daw, Cornell University, School of Operations Research and Information Engineering
2019 Finalist
Dmitry Mitrofanov, Leonard N. Stern School of Business, New York University
Kyra Gan, Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University
Baile Lu, School of Management, Zhejiang University
Jiding Zhang, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
Yue Hu, Northwestern University
Vivek Choudhary, Information Systems & Operations Management, Foster School of Business, University of Washington
Zhaohui (Zoey) Jiang, Ross School of Business, University of Michigan
Junyu Cao, Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, University of California, Berkeley
Elisabeth Paulson , MIT Sloan School of Management - Operations Research Center
Elaheh Fata, MIT Sloan School of Management - Operations Research Center
Simin Li, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
Jun Hyun (Joseph) Ryoo, Ivey Business School, Western University
2018 First Place
Shan Wang
2018 Second Place
Yunke Mai
2018 Third Place
Rakesh Mallipeddi
2018 Finalist
Lennart Baardman Divya Singhvi
Kraig Delana, LBS
Lai Wei
Sina Golara
Pu He
Jiayi Joey Yu
Ekaterina Astashkina
Levi DeValve
Kalinda Ukanwa
Behrooz Pourghannad , University of Minnesota
2017 First Place
Hamsa Bastani, University of Pennsylvania
2016 Second Place
Leela Nageswaran
2016 Third Place
Ashish Kabra, INSEAD
2014 First Place
Ngai-Hang Zachary Leung
Maxime C. Cohen, McGill University
2014 Second Place
Matthew C. Walsman
2014 Third Place
Tianshu Sun, University of Maryland
Changmi Jung