Aviation Applications Best Paper Award

2024 Winner(s)

Winning material: Vertiport Planning for Urban Air Mobility: An Adaptive Discretization Approach

Purpose of the Award

This award will be given at the INFORMS National Meeting to the author of the best paper submitted by a full-time student in the area of aviation applications. Specific topics include (but are not limited to) passenger and cargo airline operations, pricing, marketing, and yield management; air traffic control; airport planning; aviation financial/economic/policy analysis, aviation forecasting, and aviation human factors. The award is accompanied by a certificate and registration fee to the conference.
 

Application process:

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Past Awardees

2024
Winner(s)
Alexandre Jacquillat, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Kai Wang , Tsinghua University
Vikrant Vaze, Dartmouth Collge
2023
Winner(s)
Chiwei Yan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cynthia Barnhart, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Vikrant Vaze, Dartmouth Collge
Runner-Up
Ang Li, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Bo Zou, University of Illinois Chicago
Mark Hansen, University of California Berkeley
2022
Winner(s)
Bert De Reyck, University College London, Dept. of Management Science & Innovation
Xiaojia Guo, University of Maryland College Park
Yael S. Grushka-Cockayne, University of Virginia
2021
Winner(s)
Alexandre Jacquillat, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Kai Wang, Carnegie Mellon University
2020
Winner(s)
Alexandre Jacquillat, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
António Pais Antunes, University of Coimbra