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
2024 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
2023 Finalist
David Cheikhi, Columbia University
Anna Winnicki, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Yunbei Xu, Columbia University
2022 Winner(s)
Tianyi Peng, MIT
Andrew Zheng, MIT
2022 Finalist
Anand Kalvit, Columbia University
Wenlong Mou, University of California Berkley
2021 Winner(s)
Xiangyu Zhang, Cornell University
2021 Finalist
Omar Mouchtaki, Columbia University
Yunbei Xu, Columbia University
Mark Gluzman, Cornell University
2020 Winner(s)
Yue Hu, Northwestern University
2020 Finalist
Min-hwan Oh, Columbia
Yichun Hu, Cornell
Xiaojie Mao, Cornell
Anirudh Sridhar, Princeton
2019 Winner(s)
Gal Mendelson, Technion
2019 Finalist
Hao Yan
Yunzong Xu, MIT
2018 Winner(s)
Hongseok Namkoong, Stanford University
2017 Winner(s)
Guido Lagos, Universidad de Chile