Erlang Prize

2024 Winner(s)

Purpose of the Award

To recognize outstanding contributions to applied probability made by an early career researcher.

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About the Award/Namesake

Erlang Prize

Agner Erlang was descended on his mother's side from Thomas Fincke. His father was a schoolmaster and Erlang was educated at his father's school when he was young. He took his examinations in Copenhagen at the age of 14 and passed with special distinction after having to obtain special permission to take the examinations because he was below the minimum age...

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Past Awardees

2024
Winner(s)
Daniel Russo, Columbia University
Sarah Penington, University of Bath
2022
Winner(s)
Siddhartha Banerjee, Cornell University
2020
Winner(s)
Jevgenijs Ivanovs, Aarhus University
2018
Winner(s)
Mykhaylo Shkolnikov, Princeton University
Neil Walton, University of Manchester
2016
Winner(s)
Josh Reed, New York University
2014
Winner(s)
Ramon van Handel, Princeton University
2012
Winner(s)
Johan S.H. van Leeuwaarden, Eindhoven University of Technology
Ton Dieker, H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology
2010
Winner(s)
Devavrat Shah, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Jose Blanchet, Columbia University
2008
Winner(s)
Bert Zwart, Georgia Institute of Technology, Industrial & Systems Engineering
2006
Winner(s)
Kavita Ramanan, Carnegie Mellon University, Dept. of Mathematical Sciences
2004
Winner(s)
David Gamarnik, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management
2002
Winner(s)
Steven Kou, Columbia University
2000
Winner(s)
Balaji Prabharkar, Stanford University
David Tse, University of California - Berkeley
1998
Winner(s)
Jim Dai, Cornell University
Xiuli Chao, University of Michigan
1996
Winner(s)
Dimitris J. Bertsimas , Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management and Operations Research Center
Paul Glasserman, Columbia University
1994
Winner(s)
Lawrence M. Wein, Stanford University, Graduate School of Business