INFORMS Comp Society

INFORMS Computing Society (ICS) addresses the interface of OR and computing. Interests are algorithms and software for modeling, optimization, and simulation.

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The 2024 Distinguished Service Award Committee:
John Chinneck, Chair (Carleton University)
Karla Hoffman (George Mason University)
David Woodruff (University of California, Davis)
Merve Bodur, ICS VP (University of Edinburgh)

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The 2024 ICS Distinguished Service Award was presented to Robin Lougee

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The 2024 ICS Harvey J Greenberg Research Award committee also awarded an Honorable Mention to Pierre Bonami, Andrea Lodi, and Giulia Zarpellon for their paper "A classifier to decide on the linearization of mixed-integer quadratic problems in CPLEX"

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Committee: Jeff Linderoth (University of Wisconsin Madison), Zeyu Liu (West Virginia University), Esra Buyuktahtakin Toy (Virginia Tech), Hamidreza Validi (Texas Tech), and Willem-Jan Van Hoeve, Chair (Carnegie Mellon)

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The 2024 ICS Harvey J Greenberg Research Award was presented to Selvaprabu Nadarajah (University of Illinois Chicago) and Andre Cire (University of Toronto) for their paper "Self-adapting network relaxations for weakly coupled Markov decision processes"

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The 2024 ICS Student Paper Award Committee: Beste Basciftci (University of Iowa) Austin Buchanan (Oklahoma State University) Leonardo Lozano, Chair (University of Cincinnati) Hamed Rahimian (Clemson University)

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The 2024 ICS Student Paper Award winner is Shuvomoy Das Gupta (MIT) for the paper "Branch-and-Bound Performance Estimation Programming: A Unified Methodology for Constructing Optimal Optimization Methods," co-authored with Bart P.G. Van Parys, and Ernest K. Ryu

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Jiachang Liu (Duke University) for the paper "OKRidge: Scalable Optimal k-Sparse Ridge Regression," co-authored by Chudi Zhong, Sam Rosen, and Cynthia Rudin.

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The 2024 ICS Student Paper Award committee identified two runner-ups for the Award: Jie Wang (Georgia Tech) and Jiachang Liu (Duke University)

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Jie Wang (Georgia Tech) for the paper "Variable Selection for Kernel Two-Sample Tests," co-authored with Santanu S. Dey, and Yao Xie

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Recognizing the importance of this work would not have been possible if it had not been for the dedication of the award committee chaired by Simge Kucukyavuz, including George Lan, Nick Sahinidis,and Juan Pablo Vielma.

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The 2022 ICS prize was awarded to Krishnakumar Balasubramanian (UC Davis), Shixiang Chen (USTC), Jiaxiang Li (Uni of Minnesota), Shiqian Ma (Rice), Anthony Man-Cho So (CUHK), and Tong Zhang (UIUC)

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The 2022 INFORMS Computing Society Student Paper Prize was awarded to Irina Wang
@IrinaW98
(Princeton) for the paper "Mean Robust Optimization," co-authored with Cole Becker, Bart Van Parys
@BartVanParys
(MIT), and Bartolomeo Stellato
@b_stellato
(Princeton)

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The 2022 INFORMS Computing Society Harvey J Greenberg Research was awarded to
Zeyu Liu and Anahita Khojandi and Xueping Li and Akram Mohammed and Robert L Davis (Tennessee), and Rishikesan Kamaleswaran (Emory) during the ICS Business Meeting

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The 2022 INFORMS Computing Society prize was awarded to Saeed Ghadimi (Waterloo), Guanghui Lan
@GeorgeLan7
(Georgia Tech), Hongchao Zhang (Louisiana State), for their pioneering work on "nonconvex stochastic optimization methods" during the ICS Business Meeting

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Congratulations to all ICS Award winners.
All prizes received many high-quality submissions. Winners will present at an awards session during the INFORMS Annual Meeting on Monday October 17 from 5-6:15pm. Awards will be presented during the business meeting from 6:30-7:30pm

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ICS Harvey J. Greenberg Research Award Committee: Archis Ghate (Washington, chair), Ariela Sofer (George Mason), David Woodruff (UC Davis)

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Many thanks to ICS Award Committees for their diligent service..

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ICS Student Paper Award Committee:
Erick Moreno-Centeno (Texas A&M, chair), Manish Bansal (Virginia Tech), Susan Hunter (Purdue), Alain Zemkoho (Southampton)