MSOM iFORM SIG Best Paper Award

2023 Winner(s)

  • Yuqian Xu, Kenan-Flagler Business School, University of North Carolina (UNC), Chapel Hill
  • Lingjiong Zhu, Department of Mathematics, Florida State University
  • Michael Pinedo, Stern Business School, New York University
Winning material: Operational Risk Management: A Stochastic Control Framework with Preventive and Corrective Controls

2023 Winner(s)

  • Stephanie Kelley, Sobey School of Business, Saint Mary's University, Canada
  • Anton Ovchinnikov, Queen's University
  • David R. Hardoon, Union Bank of the Philippines, and Aboitiz Data Innovation
  • Adrienne Heinrich, Artificial Intelligence and Innovation Center of Excellence, Union Bank of the Philippines, and Aboitiz Data Innovation
Winning material: Antidiscrimination Laws, Artificial Intelligence, and Gender Bias: A Case Study in Nonmortgage Fintech Lending

Purpose of the Award

The Manufacturing & Service Operations Management (M&SOM) iFORM (Interface of Finance, Operations, and Risk Management) SIG (Special Interest Group) invites nominations for the best published paper(s) on an iFORM subject award. This is the second year that the M&SOM iFORM SIG Best Paper Award will be given.

Information:

To see the past winning papers, click on the author's name.

Click here for award application information. 

Past Awardees

2023 Winner(s)
Yuqian Xu, Kenan-Flagler Business School, University of North Carolina (UNC), Chapel Hill Lingjiong Zhu, Department of Mathematics, Florida State University Michael Pinedo, Stern Business School, New York University
Stephanie Kelley, Sobey School of Business, Saint Mary's University, Canada Anton Ovchinnikov, Queen's University David R. Hardoon, Union Bank of the Philippines, and Aboitiz Data Innovation Adrienne Heinrich, Artificial Intelligence and Innovation Center of Excellence, Union Bank of the Philippines, and Aboitiz Data Innovation
2023 Finalist
Gerry Tsoukalas, University of Pennsylvania & Boston University
 Brett Hemenway Falk, Department of Computer and Information Sciences, University of Pennsylvania
Jiri Chod, University of Rochester Nikolaos Trichakis, Massachussetts Institute of Technology S. Alex Yang, London Business School
Lauren Xiaoyuan Lu, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill Susan Feng Lu
2022 Winner(s)
Yixin Iris Wang, University of Michigan
 Jun Li, Stephen M. Ross School of Business, University of Michigan
 Di Wu, University of Michigan Ravi Anupindi, Ross School of Business, University of Michigan
2022 Runner-Up
Volodymyr Babich, Georgetown University
 Simone Marinesi , The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
 Gerry Tsoukalas, University of Pennsylvania & Boston University
2022 Finalist
Nitish Jain, INSEAD Sameer Hasija, INSEAD
 Serguei Netessine, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
Kevin B. Hendricks, School of Business and Economics, Wilfred Laurier University Brian W. Jacobs, Graziadio Business School, Pepperdine University Vinod R. Singhal, Scheller College of Business, Georgia Institute of Technology
Rowena Gan Gerry Tsoukalas, University of Pennsylvania & Boston University
 Serguei Netessine, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
Panos Kouvelis, Washington University, St Louis Fasheng Xu, Syracuse University, Whitman School of Management
2021 Winner(s)
Jiri Chod, University of Rochester Gerry Tsoukalas, University of Pennsylvania & Boston University
 Nikolaos K. Trichakis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Henry Aspegren, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
 Mark Weber , IBM Research; MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab
2021 Finalist
Yasin Alan , Owen Graduate School of Management, Vanderbilt University

Vishal Gaur, Cornell University, The Johnson School
Elena Belavina, INSEAD, France Simone Marinesi , The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
 Gerry Tsoukalas, University of Pennsylvania & Boston University
2020 Winner(s)
S. Alex Yang, London Business School
 John R. Birge, The University of Chicago, Booth School of Business
2020 Finalist
Shiming Deng, School of Management, Huazhong University of Science and Technology
 Chaocheng Gu, Jinan University, School of Management
 Gangshu Cai, Leavey School of Business, Santa Clara University
 Yanhai Li, School of Economics and Management, Fuzhou University
Süleyman Demirel, Facebook
 Roman Kapuscinski, University of Michigan Ross School of Business Man Yu, HKUST Business School
2019 Winner(s)
Tunay Tunca, University of Maryland
Weiming Zhu, University of Navarra
2018 Winner(s)
Dan Iancu, Stanford University Nikolaos Trichakis, Massachussetts Institute of Technology Gerry Tsoukalas, University of Pennsylvania & Boston University
2018 Finalist
Mert Hakan Hekimoğlu Burak Kazaz Scott Webster, Arizona State University
Jiri Chod, University of Rochester
2016 Winner(s)
Jiri Chod, University of Rochester Jianer Zhou
2015 Winner(s)
Saibal Ray , McGill University Mehmet Gümüs , McGill University Haresh Gurnani , University of Miami
2014 Winner(s)
Lode Li Martin Shubik Matthew J. Sobel