Winners of the 2025 PITM Best Student Paper Competition

The POMS Product Innovation and Technology Management College (PITM) is proud to announce the winner, runner-up and finalists for the submissions to the 2025 PITM Best Student Paper Competition.

Special thanks to Sidika Tunc Candogan (NUS) and Kostas Stouras (UCD) for co-chairing this year's competition.  

Winner: 

• Ping-Chieh Huang, University of California, San Diego

        Title: Designing Data Science Contests: The Role of Training vs Test Splits

Runner-Up:

• Felix Mosner, University of Cologne

        Title: How Success Affects Repeat Initiative Taking - Investigating Inter-Idea Times for Employee Driven Idea Generation

Finalists:

• Deepanshi Bhardwaj, UCL

        Title: Collaboration or Competition? An Empirical Study on the Impact of Peers on Performance in New Technology Adoption

• Guang Cheng, National University of Singapore

        Title: The Role of Contextual Information in Customer Reviews: A Field Experiment on a Mental Health Platform

• Ramazan Kizilyildirim, UCL

        Solver Capacity Utilization and Allocation on Crowdsourcing Platforms: An Experimental Study