ENRE Young Researcher Prize

2024 First Place

Winning material: Sequential Pricing of Electricity

Purpose of the Award

The ENRE Young Researcher Prize is awarded annually at the INFORMS Annual Meeting to one or more young researcher(s) for an outstanding paper on the application of OR/MS to an important problem in energy, natural resources, or the environment.  The award serves as an esteemed recognition of promising researchers who are at the beginning of their academic or industrial career.

Application Process

For more information and the application process, please click here.

Past Awardees

2024 First Place
Jacob Mays , Northwestern University
2024 Runner-Up
Beste Basciftci , Georgia Tech
 Natalie Randall, University of Iowa
2023 Winner(s)
Bolun Xu, Columbia University
2023 Runner-Up
Christian Kaps, University of Pennsylvania
2022 Winner(s)
Chen Jin, National University of Singapore
 Luyi Yang Cungen Zhu, NUS
2021 Winner(s)
Shourya Bose, University of California, Santa Cruz
 Yu Zhang, University of California, Santa Cruz
2021 Runner-Up
Benjamin D. Leibowicz, University of Texas at Austin
2020 Winner(s)
Alessio Trivella, Institute for Transport Planning and Systems, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
 Danial Mohseni-Taheri, University of Illinois at Chicago
 Selvaprabu Nadarajah, University of Illinois at Chicago
2019 Winner(s)
Kwon Gi Mun, Rutgers University Raza Rafique, Rutgers University Yao Zhao, Rutgers University
2018 Winner(s)
Soongeol Kwon , Binghamton University, State University of New York
2017 Winner(s)
Arda Yenipazarli, Georgia Southern University
2016 Winner(s)
Daniel Huppmann Sauleh Siddiqui
2015 Winner(s)
Steffen Rebennack, Colorado School of Mines
2014 Winner(s)
Michael K. Lim Ho-Yin Mak, University of California-Berkeley Ying Rong, Lehigh University
2014 Second Place
Vishal Agrawal , McDonough School of Business, Georgetown University Ioannis Bellos
2013 Winner(s)
Alireza Soroudi , Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran