Energy Systems (ES) Division Best Paper Award
and Best Student Paper Award

Those awards recognize regular members and student members whose papers (and presentations) in the Energy Systems Track at the IISE Annual Conference & Expo, both represent the highest level of excellence.

Eligibility

  • Must be a member (for Energy Systems Track Best Paper) or a student member (for Energy Systems Best Student Paper Award) of IISE and the ES division.
  • Finalists will present their papers in the ES division town hall meeting.
  • Finalists must be able to attend the IISE Annual Conference & Expo, May 31 - June 3, 2025.

Application process

  • Candidates must indicate their intent to enter the competition by checking the appropriate box in the Abstract submission portal in response to the question, “Would you like your paper to be considered for the Best Paper Competition?” Alternatively, candidates may send an email to the ES Committee Chair: Kibaek Kim.
  • The notification email must include: Student’s full name, Academic affiliation, and Abstract ID
  • A paper can be entered into both the “Energy Systems Track Best Paper" award and the “Energy Systems Best Student Paper Award” competition.
  • Submissions are due by February 9, 2025, 5 pm ET.
  • Publication at the IISE proceedings is encouraged but not necessary for participation in this competition.

Evaluation Process

  • All competing papers are subject to a double-blind review process by a panel of three judges.
  • The paper with the overall best rating is adjudged the Energy Systems Track Best Paper.
  • The next three or four ranked student-led papers will be the finalists invited to present at the ES town hall meeting.
  • The winning Best Student Paper will be selected based on a combined score of paper and presentation.

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 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 Chair

Kibaek Kim

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.

Energy Systems Best Student Paper
Winner: Michael Beacher, Tarun Arasu, Mark Rodgers, David Coit, and Jennifer Senick, Rutgers University
Title: Quantification of Human Health Externalities Associated with Power Grid Expansion Plans

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

Energy Systems Best Student Paper
Winner: Weijie Pan, The George Washington University
Title: Physical Modeling of Integrated Power Systems for Capacity and Technology Choices
Co-authors: Ekundayo Shittu

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

Energy Systems Best Student Paper
Winner: Ashutosh Shukla, University of Texas Austin
Title: Budget Allocation in Optimizing Power Grid Resilience to Extreme Weather: Hardening, Pre-event Preparation, or Recovery?
Co-authors: B Austgen, E Kutanoglu, J Hasenbein

Past winners

Energy Systems Division page

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