IISE operations research (or) division undergraduate student research dissemination competition past winners

2022 Winners

Holly Streber and Kayla Streber
Texas State University
“Planning the trauma hospital expansion to increase access in rural communities”

2021 Winner

Qihan Zhu
Cornell University
“An automated tool for optimal classroom seating assignment with social distancing constraints”

2020 Winners

1st Place:
Brady Collea
Rochester Institute of Technology
"Efficient Algorithms for Unrelated Parallel Machine Scheduling Considering Time of Use Pricing and Demand Charges"

2nd Place:
Connie Feinberg and Amrita Malur
North Carolina State University
"Modeling Spontaneous Volunteer Convergence using Agent-based Simulation"

3rd Place:
Kalina Scarborough
University of Tennessee - Knoxville
"Identifying a Minimal Set of Sensors to Predict Soil Moisture in Real-time in Green Infrastructure"

2019 Winners

1st Place:
Ning Zhang
Renssalaer Polytechnic Institute
"Expected Travel Distance Models for Retail Store Order Fulfillment"

2nd Place:
Thanika Painruttanusukho
University of Washington
"Interactive Opotimization Tool for Medical Supply Distribution"

3rd Place:
Tyce Kissling
Texas A&M University-Commerce
"Location Allocation of Autonomous Vehicle Stations in Frisco, TX"

2018 Winners

1st Place:
Christopher Aden
University of Louisville
"Optimization Models for Locating Electric Vehicle Charging Stations with Queuing Constraints"

2nd Place:
Megan Wellner
Iowa State University
"Gender-based Selection Strategy for Genomic Selection"

3rd Place:
Trent Sahinkaya
Texas A&M University-Commerce
"International Space Station Resupply Cost Minimization"

2017 Winner

Danika Dorris
University of Tennessee, Knoxville
"Predicting Patients' Outcome Following Abdominal Wall Reconstruction Procedure"

2016 Winner

Benjamin Rachunok
North Carolina State University