logistics & supply Chain (LSC) division past winners

2021 Winners

1st Place
Ritesh Ojha, Alan Erera, Natashia Boland and Martin Savelsbergh
Georgia Institute of Technology
“Long-term Inventory-aware Equipment Planning in Service Networks”

2nd Place
Juan C. Paz, Nan Kong and Seokcheon Lee
Purdue University
“A Real-Time Ambulance Redeployment Approach to Improve Patient Survivability with Consideration of Citizen Responder Support”

3rd Place
Somayeh Dejbord, Jee Eun Kang and Mark H. Karwan
University at Buffalo, State University of New York
“A Conditional Gravity p-median Model for Strategic Public Parking Locations for Autonomous Vehicles”

2020 Winners

1st Place
Lingyu Meng (student) and Zhijie Dong
Texas State University
“Ride Sharing Models of Disaster Response”

2nd Place
Reem Khir (student), Alan Erera and Alejandro Toriello
Georgia Institute of Technology
“Robust Planning of Sort Operations in Express Parcel Delivery Systems”

3rd Place
Lubna Tarawneh (student), Shrouq Alelaumi (student) and Sang Won Yoon
Binghamton University
“Modified Sweeping Approach for Solving Capacitated Vehicle Routing Problem”

2019 Winner

1st Place
Sagarkumar Hirpara
Wright State University
"Maximizing Impulse Revenue in a Retail Store Considering Shopper Path"

2018 Winners

1st Place
Barbara Venegas Quintrileo
The Pennsylvania State University
"Supply Chain Coordination with Profit-sharing Agreements"

2nd Place
Archit Mokashi
Purdue University
"Aircraft Routing Model for Express Air Shipment"

3rd Place
Yusuf Secerdin
University of Miami
"Capacity Balancing in Service Network Design Problems"

2017 Winners

1st Place
Xin Lo, Jose Ventura and Luis F. Ayala
The Pennsylvania State University
"Design of a CO-2 Supply Chain for Industrial Applications"

2nd Place
Brad Guthrie and Pratik J. Parikh
Wright State University
"Analyzing a Shopper's Visual Experience in a Retail Store Considering Curved Racks in 3 Dimensions"

2016 Winner 

Saba Al-Sayouri
Binghamton University
"Robust-optimization Models of Buyer-vendor Inventory for Supply Chain Coordination"