HOM - Winners of Previous Competitions

2026

Winner

• “When Less Testing Costs More: Diagnostic Underuse Variation and Care Delivery Expenditures in Hospital Operations”
  Seokjun Youn and Gregory Heim.

Runner-up

• “Does Task Switching Cost Lives? Evidence from Transplantation”
  Jiayi Liu, Yiwen Jin, and Joel T. Adler.

Honorable Mentions

• “Augmenting Individualized Treatment Planning via Data-Driven Clinical Role Model Selection”
  Che-Yi Liao, Gian-Gabriel Garcia, Francisco Pasquel, and Esmaeil Keyvanshokooh.
• “Distributionally Robust Group Testing with Correlation Information”
  Daniel Zhuoyu Long, Jin Qi, Yu Sun, and Aiqi Zhang.

2025

Winner

• “Machine Learning-Guided Cancer Screening: The Benefits of Proactive Care”
  Minje Park, Carri W. Chan, Keith Boell, Elliot Mitchell, Abdul Tariq, and David Vawdrey.

Runner-up

• “Telehealth’s Double-Edged Sword: The Hidden Costs of Expanding Virtual Access to Care”
  Masoud Kamalahmadi, Jong Myeong Lim, Cristina Rubio-Delgado, and Katelyn Walker.

Honorable Mentions

• “Optimizing Surveillance Protocols for Hospital-Acquired Infections Case of MRSA”
  Esma Akgun, F. Safa Erenay, Sibel A. Alumur, and William A. Ciccotelli.
• “Small Area Estimation of Case Growths for Timely COVID-19 Outbreak Detection”
  Zhaowei She, Zilong Wang, Turgay Ayer, and Jagpreet Chhatwal.

2024

Winner

• “Towards Advancing Women’s Health in Least Developed Countries: Evaluating Contraceptive Distribution Models in Senegal”
  Amir Karimi, Anant Mishra, Karthik V. Natarajan, and Kingshuk K. Sinha.

Runner-up

• “Safe Reinforcement Learning with Contextual Information: Theory and Application to Personalized Comorbidity Management”
  Esmaeil Keyvanshokooh, Junyu Cao, and Tian Liu.

Honorable Mentions

• “Physician Adoption of AI Assistant”
  Ting Hou, Meng Li, Yinliang (Ricky) Tan, and Huangzhong Zhao.
• “Generic Drug Transparency: Testing a Regulatory Policy Proposal”
  Gloria Urrea, Sebastian Villa, George Ball, and John V. Gray.

2023

Winner

• “The Cost of Task Switching: Evidence from Emergency Departments”
  Yiwen Jin, Yige Duan, Yichuan Ding, Mahesh Nagarajan, and Garth Hunte.

Runners-up

• “Got (the Optimal) Milk? Pooling Donations in Human Milk Banks with Machine Learning and Optimization”
  Timothy Chan, Rafid Mahmood, Deborah O’Connor, Debbie Stone, Sharon Unger, Rachel Wong, and Ian Yihang Zhu.
• “A Multi-Treatment Forest Approach for Analyzing the Heterogeneous Effects of Team Familiarity”
  Minmin Zhang, Guihua Wang, Wallace Hopp, and Michael Mathis.

Honorable Mention

• “Provider Network Selection and Patient Targeting in Health Insurance Markets”
  Amin Hosseininasab, Willem-Jan van Hoeve, and Sridhar Tayur.