Ruiwei Jiang Wins George Nicholson Student Paper Competition

Assistant Professor Ruiwei Jiang won the first place in the 2013 George Nicholson Student Paper Competition at the 2013 INFORMS National Meeting.  His award was given for his paper entitled “Data-driven chance constrained stochastic program,” co-authored with Dr. Yongpei Guan from the University of Florida. This competition is held each year to identify and honor outstanding student papers in the field of operations research and the management sciences. This year’s competition received the largest number of submissions (over 80) in its history. Other finalists for this award earned degrees from Columbia, Cornell, Georgia Tech, MIT, and Stanford.