TST Best Paper Award

2023 First Place

Winning material: Network Migration Problem: A Hybrid Logic-based Benders Decomposition Approach

Purpose of the Award

The INFORMS Technical Section on Telecommunications and Network Analytics Best Paper Award will be given to an outstanding paper applying OR techniques in the context of telecommunications. The paper must have been published in a refereed journal and written in English.  The paper must present innovative OR approaches to complex problems in all topics related to the field of telecommunications including, but not being limited to: telecommunications modeling, policy, and technology, network economics, network design, algorithms, and optimization, sensor networks, wireless and broadband networks, vehicle and mobile computing, semantic networks, network survivability and reliability, information security and privacy, quality of service, internet and multimedia, data mining applications in telecommunications networks. The best paper award will be judged at the biennial Telecommunications and Network Analytics Conference and presented during the annual business meeting.

TST Best Paper Award Application Process

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Past Awardees

2023
First Place
Hamed Pouya, Ciena Canada, Inc.
Marc-Antoine De Santis, Ciena Canada, Inc.
Maryam Daryalal, University of Toronto
Second Place
Antonio P. Sanfilippo, Hamad bin Khalifa University
Raka Jovanovic, Hamad bin Khalifa University
Stefan Voß, University of Hamburg
Third Place
Rui Zhang, University of Colorado - Boulder
S. Raghavan, University of Maryland, Robert H Smith School of Business
2022
Winner(s)
Aris L. Moustakas, University of Athens
Nicholas Bambos, Stanford University
Zhengyuan Zhou, New York University
Finalist
Alessandro Hill, California Polytechnic State University
I-Hong Hou, Texas A&M University
Jin Xu, Texas A&M University
Natarajan Gautam, Texas A&M University
Rui Zhang, University of Colorado - Boulder
S. Raghavan, University of Maryland, Robert H Smith School of Business
Stefan Voß, University of Hamburg
2016
Winner(s)
S. Raghavan, University of Maryland, Robert H Smith School of Business