The 2024 Distinguished Service Award Committee:
John Chinneck, Chair (Carleton University)
Karla Hoffman (George Mason University)
David Woodruff (University of California, Davis)
Merve Bodur, ICS VP (University of Edinburgh)
The 2024 ICS Harvey J Greenberg Research Award committee also awarded an Honorable Mention to Pierre Bonami, Andrea Lodi, and Giulia Zarpellon for their paper "A classifier to decide on the linearization of mixed-integer quadratic problems in CPLEX"
Committee: Jeff Linderoth (University of Wisconsin Madison), Zeyu Liu (West Virginia University), Esra Buyuktahtakin Toy (Virginia Tech), Hamidreza Validi (Texas Tech), and Willem-Jan Van Hoeve, Chair (Carnegie Mellon)
The 2024 ICS Harvey J Greenberg Research Award was presented to Selvaprabu Nadarajah (University of Illinois Chicago) and Andre Cire (University of Toronto) for their paper "Self-adapting network relaxations for weakly coupled Markov decision processes"
The 2024 ICS Student Paper Award Committee: Beste Basciftci (University of Iowa) Austin Buchanan (Oklahoma State University) Leonardo Lozano, Chair (University of Cincinnati) Hamed Rahimian (Clemson University)
The 2024 ICS Student Paper Award committee identified two runner-ups for the Award: Jie Wang (Georgia Tech) and Jiachang Liu (Duke University)
The 2024 ICS Student Paper Award winner is Shuvomoy Das Gupta (MIT) for the paper "Branch-and-Bound Performance Estimation Programming: A Unified Methodology for Constructing Optimal Optimization Methods," co-authored with Bart P.G. Van Parys, and Ernest K. Ryu
Recognizing the importance of this work would not have been possible if it had not been for the dedication of the award committee chaired by Simge Kucukyavuz, including George Lan, Nick Sahinidis,and Juan Pablo Vielma.














