The CORS Transportation and Logistics Special Interest Group (SIG) is excited to announce the call for nominations for the position of Vice-President (President-Elect).

This year, we held the inaugural "Gilbert Laporte Student Paper Award", recognizing exceptional scientific contributions to the theory, methodology, and practice of Operational Research (OR) in Transportation and Logistics! We had excellent submissions and four outstanding finalists who presented their work at this year’s Canadian Operational Research Society (CORS) Conference.

The winner is Laura Kolcheva (PhD Student at Polytechnique Montréal) for “Online Stochastic Optimization for Real-Time Transfer Synchronization in Public Transportation Networks”.

>> 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"