Best Student Paper Prize

2024 Winner(s)

Winning material: Span-Based Optimal Sample Complexity for Weakly Communicating and General Average Reward MDPs

Purpose of the Award

The Applied Probability Society seeks to identify and honor outstanding papers in the field of applied probability that are written primarily by a student. We define applied probability broadly, as any paper related to the modeling, analysis, and control of stochastic systems. The paper’s contribution may lie in the formulation of new mathematical models, in the development of new mathematical or computational methods, in the innovative application of existing methods, or in the opening of new application domains.

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Past Awardees

2024
Winner(s)
Matthew Zurek, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Finalist
Feiyang Zhao, University of Texas at Austin
George Yu, Cornell University
Taha Ameen, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
2023
Winner(s)
Yanlin Qu, Stanford University
Finalist
Anna Winnicki, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
David Cheikhi, Columbia University
Yunbei Xu, Columbia University
2022
Winner(s)
Finalist
Anand Kalvit, Columbia University
Wenlong Mou, University of California Berkley
2021
Winner(s)
Xiangyu Zhang, Cornell University
Finalist
Mark Gluzman, Cornell University
Omar Mouchtaki, Columbia University
Yunbei Xu, Columbia University
2020
Winner(s)
Yue Hu, Northwestern University
Finalist
Anirudh Sridhar, Princeton
Min-hwan Oh, Columbia
Xiaojie Mao, Cornell
Yichun Hu, Cornell
2019
Winner(s)
Gal Mendelson, Technion
Finalist
Yunzong Xu, MIT
2018
Winner(s)
Hongseok Namkoong, Stanford University
2017
Winner(s)
Guido Lagos, Universidad de Chile