In the last 12 years 19 out of 43 finalists
for the Nicholson Award were either ORC
students or students supervised
by an ORC affiliated faculty member. During that same time period
these students accounted for 5 out of the 11 award
winners.
2007 |
 |
 |
1st
Place |
Nelson Uhan, "Encouraging Cooperation in Sharing Supermodular Costs" |
Thesis Advisor
Andreas Schulz
|
 |
Honorable
Mention |
Timothy Chan, "The Management of Uncertainties in Radiation Treatments of Lung Tumors" |
Thesis Advisor
John N. Tsitsiklis
|
 |

|
2006 |
 |
 |
2nd
Place |
Alexandre
Belloni, "On the Computational Complexity
of MCMC-based Estimators in Large Samples" |
Thesis Advisor
Robert M. Freund
|
 |
Honorable
Mention |
Stephen
Shum, "Coordinating Efforts of Multiple Retailers
in a Decentralized Supply Chain" |
Thesis Advisor
David Simchi-Levi
|
 |
2005 |
 |
 |
2nd
Place |
David
B. Brown, "Robust Linear Optimization and
Coherent Risk Measures" |
Thesis Advisor
Dimitris J. Bertsimas
|
 |
2004 |
 |
 |
2nd
Place |
Melvyn
Sim, "Robust Conic Optimization" |
Thesis Advisor
Dimitris J. Bertsimas
|
 |
2003 |
 |
 |
1st
Place (tie) |
Aurelie
Thiele, "Robust Optimization Approach
to Supply Chain Management" |
Thesis Advisor
Dimitris J. Bertsimas
|
 |
1st
Place (tie) |
Ramesh
Johari, "Network Resource Allocation
and a Congestion Game" |
Thesis Advisor
John N. Tsitsiklis
|
 |
2nd
Place |
Sanne de
Boer, ""Airline Revenue Management Under
Imperfect Market Segmentation"" |
Thesis Advisor
Dimitris Bertsimas
|
 |
Honorable
Mention |
Karthik
Natarajan, "Probabilistic Combinatorial
Optimization: Moments, Order Statistics and Asymptotic
Bounds" |
Thesis Advisor
Dimitris J. Bertsimas
|
 |
Honorable
Mention |
Victor
Martinez de Albeniz, "A Portfolio Approach
to Procurement Contracts" |
Thesis Advisor
David Simchi-Levi
|
 |
2002 |
 |
 |
2nd
Place |
Melvyn
Sim, "Robust Discrete Optimization" |
Thesis Advisor
Dimitris J. Bertsimas
|
 |
Honorable
Mention |
Xin Chen, "Coordinating
Inventory Control and Pricing Strategies with Random Demand
and Fixed Ordering Cost" |
Thesis Advisor
David Simchi-Levi
|
 |
2001 |
 |
 |
1st
Place |
Alp Muharremoglu, "Echelon
Base Stock Policies in Uncapacitated Serial Inventory Systems" |
Thesis Advisors
John N. Tsitsiklis
|
 |
 |
2000 |
 |
 |
2nd
Place |
Marina
Epelman, "Measures of Conditioning
and Pre-Conditioners for Conic Linear Systems" |
Thesis Advisor
Robert M. Freund
|
 |
Honorable
Mention |
Jay Sethuraman, "From
Fluid Relaxations to Practical Algorithms for Job Shop Scheduling" |
Thesis Advisor
Dimitris J. Bertsimas
|
 |
1997 |
 |
 |
1st
Place |
Stefanos
Zenios, "Dynamic Allocation of Kidneys
to Patients on the Transplant Waiting List" |
Thesis Advisors
Lawrence M. Wein
|
 |
2nd
Place |
Ioannis
Ch. Paschalidis, "Controlling Congestion
in Multimedia Networks" |
Thesis Advisor
Dimitris J. Bertsimas
& John N. Tsitsiklis
|
 |
1996 |
 |
 |
2nd
Place |
Georgia
Mourtzinou, "Transient Distributional
Little's Law and Their Applications" |
Thesis Advisor
Dimitris J. Bertsimas
|
 |