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Operations Research Student Receives First Place Paper Award

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Amit Partani, a doctoral student in the Operations Research & Industrial Engineering Program, received the Best Paper Award from the Institute for Operations Research and Management Sciences (INFORMS) Computing Society. The award is given annually to the best paper on computing and operations research by a student author. Partani’s paper explained how to reduce from 1 to 5 percent statistical errors that arise when designing manufacturing systems, communication networks, and financial portfolios under uncertainty. The same paper also received an honorable mention for the INFORMS George E. Nicholson Student Paper Prize.