Koopman Prize

2024 Winner(s)

Winning material: Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Information Collection Missions with Uncertain Characteristics

Purpose of the Award

This Prize was named after Bernard Koopman, a founding father of military operations research. It is awarded for the outstanding publication in military operations research of the previous year. The award is accompanied by a plaque and a $500 honorarium.

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About the Award/Namesake

Koopman Prize

Bernard Osgood Koopman was a founding member of ORSA and a featured speaker at the society's initial meeting in 1952. He was awarded the Kimball Medal in 1980 in recognition of his dedicated service to the OR profession. His special interest in military OR earned him the 1979 Wander Award of the Military Operations Research Society...

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Past Awardees

2024 Winner(s)
Erdi Dasdemir, Hacettepe University
Michael D. Moskal II, University at Buffalo
Rajan Batta, University of Buffalo
2023 Winner(s)
Nicholas C. Forrest, Air Force Institute of Technology Phillip R. Jenkins, Air Force Institute of Technology Raymond R Hill, Air Force Institute of Technology
2022 Winner(s)
Linan Huang, New York University
Quanyan Zhu, New York University
2021 Winner(s)
Jugal Garg, University of Illinois
Omkar Thakoor, University of Southern California
Rakesh Nagi, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
2020 Winner(s)
David Simchi-Levi , Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Nikolaos Trichakis, Massachussetts Institute of Technology Peter Y. Zhang, Carnegie Mellon University
2019 Winner(s)
François Margot, Carnegie Mellon University
Miguel A. Lejeune, George Washington University
2018 Winner(s)
Rajan Batta, University of Buffalo
Rakesh Nagi, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Yan Xia, University of Buffalo
2017 Winner(s)
John Coles, Cubric Jun Zhuang , University of Buffalo
2016 Awardee(s)
Lawrence V. Fulton Nathaniel D. Bastian, The Pennsylvania State University Pat McMurry Paul M. Griffin, Georgia Institute of Technology, School of ISYE
Sharan Srinivas Shisheng Cui Thor Hanson
2015 Awardee(s)
Bao Nguyen
2013 Awardee(s)
Christopher J. Nannini Hong Wan, Northwestern University Paul J. Sanchez Susan M. Sanchez Thomas W. Lucas, Naval Postgraduate School
2011 Awardee(s)
Greg H. Parlier
2010 Awardee(s)
Edward H. Kaplan, Yale University
2009 Awardee(s)
Moshe Kress, Naval Postgraduate School Roberto Szechtman, Naval Post Graduate School
2008 Awardee(s)
J. Todd Hamill James W. Chrissis, Air Force Institute of Technology Richard F. Deckro, Air Force Institute of Technology Robert F. Mills
2006 Awardee(s)
Gregory S. Parnell Paul L. Ewing, Jr., Naval Postgraduate School William Tarantino, Confluent-Data Systems
2005 Awardee(s)
Edward H. Kaplan, Yale University Moshe Kress, Naval Postgraduate School
2004 Awardee(s)
Stephen D. Biddle, Strategic Studies Institute
2003 Awardee(s)
Anduin E. Touw, The Boeing Corporation Matthew S. Goldberg, National Security Division
2002 Awardee(s)
David L. Craft, MIT Edward H. Kaplan, Yale University Lawrence M. Wein, Stanford University, Graduate School of Business
2001 Awardee(s)
Israel David, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
2000 Awardee(s)
Alan R. Washburn, Naval Postgraduate School Kirk Yost, Mitre Corporation
1999 Awardee(s)
Dennis Dietz, Qwest (formerly U S WEST) Advanced Technologies, Boulder, Colorado.
1998 Awardee(s)
Katta G. Murty, University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Dept. of I/O Engineering Philipp A. Djang
1995 Awardee(s)
Jerome Bracken Martin Shubik
1994 Awardee(s)
Donald D. Boyer Hanif D. Sherali, Virginia Tech Youngho Lee