Posters

Poster Competition

Registration

Showcase your work in our poster session, open to all PhD students in related fields. Present a poster on any research that excites you—top entries will receive cash prizes! Scroll down for details on prizes and available partial travel support.

Registrations for the Poster Competition are closed.

Prizes, Rules, Judges, and Logistics

We are pleased to announce the following prizes:

First Place: $200
Second Place: $150
Third Place: $100
Fan Favorite: $50

The competition will feature three faculty judges who will select the top three posters. We will also have a fan favorite poster voted by general attendees. Please review the following guidelines:

Accepted participants will have ~5 minutes to present a standard sized poster to the judges.
Please provide posters at least 1 week before the event. The posters will be printed by the CMU INFORMS Chapter.

Judges: Gerard Cornuejols, Huiwen Jia, Peter Zhang.

The CMU INFORMS chapter will provide accommodation for one night if needed for accepted poster presenters. Hotel rooms will be shared with one other person. We cannot provide travel reimbursements.

YinzOR 2025 Posters

Spatio-Temporal Causal Inference for DER’s Impact on Grid Reliability

Wendy Wang, Carnegie Mellon University

A Framework for Evaluating the Trade-off Between Model Fidelity and Computational Tractability in Logistics Network Design

Weiqing Xu, Georgia Institute of Technology

History-Dependent Fluid Approximations and Performance Guarantees for Revenue Management with Markov-Modulated Demands

Weiyuan Li, Cornell Tech

Randomized Algorithms for Total Variation-Regularized Topology Optimization

Haeseong Yang, University of Pittsburgh

Generalized Traffic Equilibrium with Ride-hailing and Customer Waiting

Wei Gu, University of Southern California

Epidemic Resource Allocation: Where Fairness Helps Efficiency

Kimiya Jozani, Virginia Tech

Maximum entropy algorithms for selecting citizens’ assemblies

Gabriel Morete de Azevedo, Cornell University

Auditing Distributional Shifts in Decision Parameters via Human Feedback

Minxing Zheng, Carnegie Mellon University

On the ReLU Lagrangian Cuts for Stochastic Mixed Integer Programming

Haoyun Deng, Georgia Institute of Technology

The Welfare Effect of Super Apps

Jingwei Dai, Carnegie Mellon University

Conformalized Decision Risk Assessment

Wenbin Zhou, Carnegie Mellon University

Adaptive Robust Optimization with Data-Driven Uncertainty for Enhancing Distribution System Resilience

Shuyi Chen, Carnegie Mellon University

Learning and Optimization for Hospital at Home

Alex He, Carnegie Mellon University