IISE Logistics and Supply Chain (LSC) division Best Student Paper Competition

The IISE Logistics and Supply Chain (LSC) Division Best Student Paper Competition is held as part of the Logistics and Supply Chain Track of the IISE Annual Conference & Expo, May 31 - June 3, 2025, in Atlanta, Georgia. The first, second, and third place winners will receive a certificate and be recognized during the LSC Division Town Hall Meeting. The qualification and the selection criteria are described below:

Elgibility Requirements

  • The student must be a member of IISE and the LSC Division.
  • The student must have carried out a substantial part of the research reported in the paper.
  • The student must be the first author and must present the paper at the IISE Annual Conference & Expo, May 31 - June 3, 2025, in Atlanta.
  • IISE LSC Student Board members who intend to participate in the competition should contact the LSC Division Award Co-directors before making a submission.

Selection Process

  • The LSC Track co-chairs will evaluate the eligible papers and select a few outstanding papers for further consideration. The LSC awards committee will then evaluate and rank the selected papers to identify the winners.
  • Applicants must submit their abstracts through the conference’s website by November 10, 2025

Important Dates (Deadlines)

  • Abstract submissions are due November 17, 2024
  • Abstract decisions will be made by December 15, 2024
  • 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 LSC 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 LSC webpage and in the newsletter

Committee Chairs

Mohamed Awwad
Tanveer Hossain Bhuiyan
Mohammed Javadi at IISE.

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 Division 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, 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 participant from the same university is a nominee for best 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.

2025 Winners

1st Place
MD Mohiuddin, Lihui Bai
University of Lousiville
"An Economic Equilibrium Model for Reverse Logistics System for Electric Vehicle Batteries"

2nd Place
Sahrish Jaleel Shaikh, Praveen Muthukrishnan, Yijun Lai, and Benoit Montreuil
Georgia Institute of Technology
"Dynamic Directional Freight Routing in Physical Internet Networks"

3rd Place
Yeasir Iqbal Farabi, Eduardo Perez
Texas State University
"Optimizing Last-Mile Delivery for Nonprofits: A Deterministic VRPTW Model with Multi-Driver Allocation"

2024 Winners

1st Place
Mr. Mahdi Ghorashi Khalilabadi, Dr. Debjit Roy, and Prof. Rene de Koster
Rotterdam School of Management
"Human-Robot Matching Policies in Order Picking Systems using Queuing Models"

2nd Place
Rabiatu Bonku, Dr. Lauren Davis, Dr. Faisal Alkaabneh, and Ricky Owusu
North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, American University of Sharjah
"Optimizing Food Bank Logistics: A synchronized Approach to Mobile Food Pantry Routing"

3rd Place
Niloofar Akbarian-Saravi, Ali Akbarian-Saravi, and Masoud Rabbani
University of Tehran, Amirkabir University of Technology
"Optimal Design of a Bioethanol Supply Chain Considering Government Subsidies: Mixed-Integer Linear Programming Model"

Past Winners

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