The inaugural Gilbert Laporte Student Paper Award finalists and the titles of their papers are (in no particular order):

>> Maedah Sharbaf, Ph.D. student at HEC Montréal, "Risk-based shelter network design in flood-prone areas: An application to Haiti"

>> Bo Lin, Ph.D. student at the University of Toronto, "Machine Learning-Augmented Optimization of Large Bilevel and Two-stage Stochastic Programs: Application to Cycling Network Design"

>> Xin Wang, Ph.D. student at HEC Montréal, "Crowdkeeping in Last-Mile Delivery"

>> Laura Kolcheva, Ph.D. student at Polytechnique Montréal, "Online Stochastic Optimization for Real-Time Transfer Synchronization in Public Transportation Networks"

Our four finalists will be presenting their papers on Tuesday, June 4, 2024, from 1:45-3:15 pm (Suite 300) at the CORS conference. The winner will be announced during the CORS banquet reception to be held on Tuesday night.

We look forward to seeing you all in London, Ontario during the CORS Annual meeting!