ISS Nunamaker-Chen Dissertation Award

2023 Winner(s)

Winning material: Understanding and Improving Recommender Systems’ Performance in the Presence of Practical User-, Item-, and Marketing-Oriented Considerations

Purpose of the Award

The INFORMS Information Systems Society (ISS) invites submissions for the Nunamaker-Chen Dissertation Award (NCDA). The NCDA is named in honor of two University of Arizona professors, Jay Nunamaker and Hsinchun Chen, who have made significant contributions to the field of Information Systems over the past several decades. The NCDA has been created to recognize and reward outstanding dissertation research by scholars in the field of Information Systems.  The winner of the 2018 Nunamaker-Chen Dissertation Award will receive a US$1000 prize.

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About the Award/Namesake

The NCDA is named in honor of two University of Arizona professors,
Jay Nunamaker http://mis.eller.arizona.edu/faculty/jnunamaker.asp and
Hsinchun Chen http://mis.eller.arizona.edu/faculty/hchen.asp,
who have made significant contributions to the field of Information Systems over the past several decades. The NCDA has been created to recognize and reward outstanding dissertation research by scholars in the field of Information Systems.


Past Awardees

2023 Winner(s)
Meizi Zhou, Boston University
2023 Runner-Up
Amandeep Singh, Upenn
Prasanna Parasurama, Emory University
2022 Winner(s)
Runshan Fu, Carnegie Mellon University
2022 Runner-Up
Tongxin Zhou, Arizona State University
Chenshuo Sun, National University of Singapore
2021 Winner(s)
Bowen Lou, University of Connecticut
David Holtz, University of California, Berkeley
2021 Runner-Up
Emaad Manzoor, University of Wisconsin - Madison
2020 Winner(s)
Avinash Collis, University of Texas at Austin
2020 Runner-Up
Yoonseock (Yoon) Son, University of Notre Dame
Lanfei Shi, University of Virginia
Jingchuan Pu, Pennsylvania State University
Sameer Mehta, University of Illinois
Yang Jiang, Nanjing University, China
2019 Winner(s)
Yingjie Zhang, University of Texas at Dallas
2019 Runner-Up
Shuo Yu , Texas Tech University
Shunyuan Zhang , Harvard Business School
Veronica Marotta, University of Minnesota
Mingwen Yang , University of Washington
2018 Winner(s)
Mochen Yang, Indiana University
2018 Runner-Up
Xue (Jane) Tan, Indiana University
Sagar Samtani, University of South Florida
Manmohan Aseri, Carnegie Mellon University
2017 Winner(s)
Yi-Jen Ian Ho, Penn State
2017 Runner-Up
Zike Cao, Erasmus University
Tianshu Sun, U of Southern California
2016 Winner(s)
Zhuoxin Allen Li
2016 Runner-Up
Dokyun Lee
2015 Winner(s)
Lei Wang
2015 Runner-Up
Marios Kokkodis
2014 Winner(s)
Yan Huang
2014 Runner-Up
Yili Kevin Hong, University of Houston
2013 Winner(s)
Jingjing Zhang, Indiana University
Beibei Li, CMU
2013 Runner-Up
Vibhanshu Abhishek , University of California - Irvine