Vivek Farias
Past Awards
2024
Pierskalla Best Paper Award:
Winner(s)
Winning material:
Policy Optimization for Personalized Interventions in Behavioral Health
2022
Daniel H. Wagner Prize for Excellence in the Practice of Advanced Analytics and Operations Research:
Winner(s)
Winning material:
For the project: Generalized Synthetic Control for TestOps at ABI: Models, Algorithms, and Infrastructure
2020
MSOM Young Scholar Prize:
Awardee(s)
2016
M&SOM Best Paper Award :
Awardee(s)
Winning material:
“A Nonparametric Approach to Modeling Choice with Limited Data”
2015
Section Prize:
Awardee(s)
Winning material:
A Nonparametric Approach to Modeling Choice with Limited Data. Management Science, 59(2), pp. 305-322, 2013
2014
Outstanding Simulation Publication Award:
Awardee(s)
Winning material:
Pathwise Optimization for Optimal Stopping Problems
2011
Junior Faculty Forum Paper Competition:
First Place
Winning material:
"Approximate Dynamic Programming via a Smoothes Linear Program"
2009
Junior Faculty Forum Paper Competition:
Second Place
Winning material:
The Linear Programming Approach to Solve Large Scale Dynamic Stochastic Games
2006
MSOM Student Paper Competition:
Second Place
Winning material:
Dynamic Pricing with a Prior on Market Response