The INFORMS Junior Faculty Interest Group (JFIG) Forum recently awarded Pengyu Qian, Assistant Professor of Operations & Technology Management, and his collaborators—Chen Chen from NYU Shanghai and Yilun Chen from the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen—first place for their paper, “Incentivizing Resource Pooling.”
The goals of the INFORMS JFIG paper competition are to encourage research among junior faculty and increase the visibility of their work within the fields of operations research and management science. The JFIG award committee judges the submissions and selects up to six finalists. Submissions are evaluated based on the importance of the topic, the appropriateness of the research approach, and the significance of the research contribution.
Qian and his collaborators’ paper examines how to design and analyze an artificial currency-based system that encourages collaboration in decentralized service systems. Its findings have wide-ranging applications, including decentralized applications (dApps), cloud computing, and service operations.
The award was presented during the JFIG Business Meeting at the INFORMS 2024 Annual Meeting in Seattle on October 21.
