Best Student Paper Award

An award of the Section on Location Analysis

2024 Winner(s)

Winning material: Toward Sustainable Cities: Modeling and Data Analytics for Urban Mobility

2024 Winner(s)

Winning material: Infrastructure Design for Electric and Autonomous Vehicles

Purpose of the Award

This award is given biennially for student papers judged to be the best in the broad field of facility location. We encourage papers that promote the development of analytical methods, techniques and tools in the tradition of operations research/management science (OR/MS) as applied to the study of facility location.

Application process:

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Past Awardees

2024
Winner(s)
Jingwei Zhang, University of California, Los Angeles
Ömer Burak Kınay, University of Waterloo
2023
Winner(s)
Weiliang Liu, National University of Singapore
2021
Winner(s)
Sheng Liu, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto 
Finalist
Aditya Malik, John Molson School of Business, Concordia University
Gita Taherkhani, University of Waterloo
2019
Winner(s)
Jessica Rodríguez‐Pereira, Technical University of Catalonia
Runner-Up
Gita Taherkhani, University of Waterloo
Xufei Liu, University of South Florida