2024-(Honorable Mention) Shuvomoy Das Gupta: Branch-and-Bound Performance Estimation Programming: A Unified Methodology for Constructing Optimal Optimization Methods
2024-(Finalist) Zikai Xiong and Robert Freund: The Role of Level-Set Geometry on the Performance of PDHG for Conic Linear Optimization
2020–(First Place) Ryan Cory-Wright and Jean Pauphilet: Mixed-Projection Conic Optimization: A New Paradigm for Modeling Rank Constraints
2018–(Finalist) Lennart Baardman: Learning Optimal Advertising Portfolios with Periodic Budgets
2016–(Finalist) Ali Aouad: Greedy-Like Algorithms for Dynamic Assortment Optimization under Multinomial Logit Preferences
2016–(Finalist) Rajan Udwani: Robust Monotone Submodular Function Maximization
2015–(Finalist) Wang-Chi Cheung: Sampling-Based Approximation Schemes for Capacitated Stochastic Inventory Control Models
2013–(Finalist) Vishal Gupta and Nathan Kallus: Robust Optimization in Data Rich Environments
2012–(Finalist) Chaithanya Bandi and Nataly Youssef: Robust Queueing Theory
2012–(Finalist) Yuan Zhong: Optimal Queue-size Scaling in Switched Networks
2011–(Second Place) Yehua Wei: Understanding the Performance of the Long Chain and Sparse Designs in Process Flexibility
2011–(Honorable Mention) Juliane Dunkel: The Gomory-Chvátal Closure of a Non-Rational Polytope is a Rational Polytope
2010–(Finalist) David Goldberg: On the Rate of Convergence to Stationarity of the M/M/N Queue in the Halfin-Whitt Regime
2009–(First Place) Cong Shi: Approximation Algorithms for the Stochastic Lot-sizing Problem
2009–(Finalist) Ye Lu: A Price-Dependent Demand Substitution Rule and Its Applications
2009–(Finalist) Theophane Weber: Random Decision Networks: Correlation Decay and Decentralized Optimization
2008–(Finalist) Dmitriy Katz-Rogozhnikov: On Deciding Stability of Multiclass Queueing Networks under Buffer Priority Scheduling Policies
2008–(Finalist) Tri-Dung Nguyen: Robust Covariance Estimation and Outlier Detection Using Semidefinite Programming: The Robust Ranking Problems with an Application in Portfolio Optimization
2007–(First Place) Nelson Uhan: Encouraging Cooperation in Sharing Supermodular Costs
2007–(Honorable Mention) Timothy Chan: The Management of Uncertainties in Radiation Treatments of Lung Tumors
2006–(Second Place) Alexandre Belloni: On the Computational Complexity of MCMC-based Estimators in Large Samples
2006–(Honorable Mention) Stephen Shum: Coordinating Efforts of Multiple Retailers in a Decentralized Supply Chain
2004–(Second Place) Melvyn Sim: Robust Conic Optimization
2003–(Second Place) Sanne de Boer: Airline Revenue Management Under Imperfect Market Segmentation
2003–(Honorable Mention) Victor Martinez de Albeniz: A Portfolio Approach to Procurement Contracts
2002–(Second Place) Melvyn Sim: Robust Discrete Optimization
2002–(Honorable Mention) Xin Chen: Coordinating Inventory Control and Pricing Strategies with Random Demand and Fixed Ordering Cost
2001–(1st Prize) Alp Muharremoglu: Echelon Base Stock Policies in Uncapacitated Serial Inventory Systems
2000–(Second Place) Marina Epelman: Measures of Conditioning and Pre-Conditioners for Conic Linear Systems
2000–(Honorable Mention) Jay Sethuraman: From Fluid Relaxations to Practical Algorithms for Job Shop Scheduling
1997–(First Place) Stefanos Zenios: Dynamic Allocation of Kidneys to Patients on the Transplant Waiting List
1996–(Second Place) Georgia Mourtzinou: Transient Distributional Little’s Law and Their Applications
1991–(Second Place) Kalyan T. Talluri: Network Design on the Plane with Connectivity Requirements
1990–(Second Place) Michel Goemans: Survivable Networks and the Parsimonious Property
1989–(First Place) Dimitris J. Bertsimas: A Priori Optimization
1985–(Second Place) Paul Tseng: The Relaxation Method for a Special Class of Linear Programming Problems