WITS 2024 Awards

Congratulations to the WITS 2024 Best Paper, Best Dissertation Proposal, and INFORMS ISS Design Science Award winners!

WITS 2024 Prabuddha De Best Paper Award

Societal Advancement through Equitable Decision Paths: A Performance-Adaptive Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning Approach
Pengzhan Guo, Keli Xiao, Jingyuan Yang

WITS 2024 Best Dissertation Award

Three Essays on Overcoming Cognitive Frictions in Online Education
Chaofan Zhai

INFORMS ISS Design Science Award 2023

Advancing Last Research Mile with Domain-Specific Modeling: Designing Novel Machine Learning Artifacts for Financial Data Analytics
Yi Yang

Best Paper Award Runner-Up

SEL-BALD: Deep Bayesian Active Learning for Selective Labeling with Instance Rejection
Ruijiang Gao, Mingzhang Yin, Maytal Saar-Tsechansky

Best Dissertation Runner-Up

Emancipatory Role of Technology in Mental Health: The Case of Conversational AI and Digital Platforms
Mohammad Rahimi

Best Paper Award Nomination

Simulating Field Experiments with Large Language Models
Yuheng Hu, Yingda Lu, Yaoyu Chen

The Illusion of Empathy: How AI Chatbots Shape Conversation Perception
Tingting Liu, Salvatore Giorgi, Ankit Aich, Allison Lahnala, Brenda Curtis, Lyle Ungar, Joao Sedoc

Random Walk Modeling Framework for Boosting the Creativity of Humans and AI
Shai Vardi, Vidyanand Choudhary

Monitoring and Indemnification Mechanisms for Generative AI Copyright Infringements
Jhih-Hua Jhang-Li, Robert Chiang