Aviation Applications Best Paper Award

2024 Winner(s)

Winning material: Vertiport Planning for Urban Air Mobility: An Adaptive Discretization Approach

Purpose of the Award

This award will be given at the INFORMS National Meeting to the author of the best paper submitted by a full-time student in the area of aviation applications. Specific topics include (but are not limited to) passenger and cargo airline operations, pricing, marketing, and yield management; air traffic control; airport planning; aviation financial/economic/policy analysis, aviation forecasting, and aviation human factors. The award is accompanied by a certificate and registration fee to the conference.
 

Application process:

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Past Awardees

2024 Winner(s)
Kai Wang , Tsinghua University Alexandre Jacquillat, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Vikrant Vaze, Dartmouth Collge
2023 Winner(s)
Chiwei Yan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
 Cynthia Barnhart, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Vikrant Vaze, Dartmouth Collge
2023 Runner-Up
Ang Li, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University Mark Hansen, University of California Berkeley Bo Zou, University of Illinois Chicago
2022 Winner(s)
Xiaojia Guo, University of Maryland College Park Yael S. Grushka-Cockayne, University of Virginia Bert De Reyck, University College London, Dept. of Management Science & Innovation
2021 Winner(s)
Kai Wang, Carnegie Mellon University
 Alexandre Jacquillat, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2020 Winner(s)
Nuno Ribeiro Alexandre Jacquillat, Massachusetts Institute of Technology António Pais Antunes, University of Coimbra