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Itai Ashlagi wins Lanchester Prize
The award regognizes the best contribution to the field of operations research and the management sciences each year.
Congratulations to professor Itai Ashlagi for receiving the 2024 Frederick W. Lanchester Prize!
The Lanchester Prize is awarded annually by the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) for the best contribution to the field. Professor Ashlagi won the award for a series of papers:
- Unbalanced Random Matching Markets: The Stark Effect of Competition
- Clearing Matching Markets Efficiently: Informative Signals and Match Recommendations
The papers contain breakthroughs that have profoundly impacted both methodological work and practical applications focused on conduct and organization of centralized and decentralized markets.