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

The INFORMS Society on Location Analysis (SOLA) announces the 2021 Student Paper Competition. The 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 
2021 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
2019 Runner-Up
Xufei Liu, University of South Florida
Gita Taherkhani, University of Waterloo