Energy Systems (ES) Division Best Track Paper Award

This award recognizes one paper with the highest level of excellence submitted to the Energy Systems (ES) Track at the IISE 2025 Annual Conference.

Eligibility

The following criteria are necessary for consideration for this award:

  • At least one of the authors is a member of IISE and the ES Division.
  • The authors submit a full paper in addition to their abstract.
  • One of the authors presents the paper in the ES Track of the IISE Annual Conference.

Application Process

  • Authors who wish to be considered for this award can self-nominate by emailing the Best Track Paper committee chairs, Kibaek Kim and Robert Mieth, after submitting their abstracts.
  • The email subject should read “Best Paper Competition Nomination [main author full name], [affiliation], [abstract ID]”.
  • The deadline for full-paper submissions and self-nomination is February 9, 2025, 5pm ET.
  • Note: If the main author is a student, the paper is eligible for both the “Energy Systems Track Best Paper Award” and the “Energy Systems Track Best Student Paper Award” competitions.

Evaluation Process

  • All competing papers are subject to a rigorous review process by at least two reviewers.
  • The best paper will be selected by the Best Track Paper committee based on the outcome of the review process.
  • The winner will be notified via email by March 9, 2025.

Important Dates (Deadlines)

  • Full paper submissions are due February 9, 2025
  • Notification on full paper decisions are due March 9, 2025
  • Winners/Finalists will be notified by March 15, 2025
  • Speaker registration deadline:  March 23, 2025
  • Paper final revision submission deadline:  March 31, 2025

Recognition

  • Recognition at the ES Town Hall Meeting at Annual Conference
  • Certificate provided by IISE (either mailed or given at the town hall meeting) for the 1st, 2nd and 3rd prize winners.
  • Recognition in ISE magazine
  • Recognition on ES webpage and in the newsletter

Committee Chairs

  • Kibaek Kim
  • Robert Mieth

    • Conflict of Interest Policy

    • Societies and divisions must follow standard conflict of interest guidelines. Those guidelines include, but are not limited to:
    • Officers and Board members of the S/D should be ineligible for awards during the period of their service, without approval by the Senior VP for Technical Operations (SVP). Exceptions may only be made by the SVP when awards are time sensitive (i.e., a Student Best Paper Award for a Student Board Member, when the student is graduating), and the impacted board member(s) or officer(s) must recuse themselves from the award process. For awards that are not time-sensitive, the nominee should wait until their Officer or Board service is complete to be nominated.
    • The awards committee (or judging committee) should not include members who have either a personal or professional relationship with the nominees. For example, a faculty member should not be judging a paper competition where a student from the same university is a nominee for best student paper award.
    • The awards committee (or judging committee) should actively change its membership on a rotating basis from year to year to ensure fairness, equity, and diversity. That is, some members of the judging committee should roll off the committee and new members should roll on.

    For questions, please contact Amy Straub

    2024 Winners

    Energy Systems Track Best Paper
    Winners: Abdallah Chehade, Isaiah Oyewole, and Youngki Kim, University of Michigan, Dearborn
    Title: A Controllable Deep Learning Model with Knowledge Transfer for State-of-Charge Estimation of Lithium-ion Batteries.

    2023 Winners

    Energy Systems Track Best Paper
    Winners: Feng Ye, Travis Miles, Ahmed Aziz Ezzat - Rutgers University, Joseph Brodie - AKRF Inc.
    Title: Offshore Wind Energy Forecasting with AIRU-WRF: A Physics-Guided Data Science Approach

    2022 Winners

    Energy Systems Track Best Paper
    Winner: Sara Jubala Kohtz, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
    Title: Physics-informed Gaussian Process Regression Model for Battery Management
    Co-author: Pingfeng Wang

    Past winners

    Energy Systems Division page

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