Carnegie Mellon University

Student Awards

See the latest Ph.D. student award winners.

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2024 award winners Flora Feng (left photo), recipient of the Chakravarti Doctoral Fellowship Award and the CMU Presidential Fellowship in the Tepper School of Business, and Michael (Mik) Zlatin (right photo, center), recipient of the Gerald L. Thompson Doctoral Dissertation Award in Management Science.

There are three dissertation awards given at the Tepper School Diploma Ceremony each year: the Cooper, Simon and Thompson awards.

Additionally, several awards are given to outstanding students at other times during the academic year.

Click on any award name to see a complete list of winners.

Ph.D. Student Award Winners, Past and Present

The Homaira Akbari Endowed Fellowship is awarded to a graduate student having lived or studied in Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Syria, or Yemen.

2021: Neda Mirzaeian

2022: Majid Mahzoon

Rick Green (1953-2015) was an economist who specialized in financial economics.  He was the Cyert Chair and Professor of Financial Economics. 

2019:
Diana Mikhail

2024: Mingjun Sun

Each year, the Egon Balas Award is presented to the Tepper School of Business student who has written the Best Student Paper in Operations Research or Algorithms, Combinatorics, and Optimization.

2024: Siyue Liu

2023: Lin An

2022:
Daniel de Roux Uribe

2021: Lingqing Shen

2020:
Su Jia

2019: Violet Xinying Chen

2018:
Arash Haddadan

2017:
Gerdus Benade

2016: Dabeen Lee

2015: Sercan Yildiz

2014: Stylianos Despotakis

2013: Selvaprabu Nadarajah

2012: Andre Cire

2011: Marco Molinaro

2010: David Bergman, Andrea Qualizza

2009: Amin Sayedi

2008: Amitabh Basu

2007: Samid Hoda

2006: Viswanath Nagarajan

2005: Mohit Singh

2004: Anureet Saxena

The Dipankar and Sharmila Chakravarti Doctoral Fellowship is awarded every year to a Tepper School Ph.D. student in recognition of outstanding contributions to research in the field of Marketing.

2024: Xiaohang (Flora) Feng

2023: Behnam Mohammadi

2022:
Serim Hwang

2021:  Franco Berbeglia, Jinwoo Kim

2020: Nikhil Malik

2019:  Yijin Kim

2018:
Shunyuan Zhang

2017:
 Zijun Shi

2016: Julian Givi

2015: Francisco Cisternas Vera

2014: Xiao Liu, Yang Yang

The William W. Cooper Doctoral Dissertation Award is awarded each year to a dissertation that deals with issues and problems in management or management science and has a strong applications orientation with accompanying theoretical or methodological developments.

The award was established in 1989 in honor of Dr. William W. Cooper, GSIA/Tepper School faculty member from 1949-1968, and the first dean of the Heinz School (now Heinz College) from 1968-1975.

2024: Yanhan Savannah Tang, Qiaochu Wang

2023:
Musa Celdir, Serim Hwang

2022: Sang Wu

2021: Franco Berbeglia, Nikhil Malik

2020: Vitaly Merso

2019: Shunyuan Zhang

2018:
Leela Nageswaran

2017:
Eunhee Kim

2016: Sherwin Doroudi

2015: Xiao Liu

2014: Selvaprabu Nadarajah

2013: Chen Li

2012: Amin Sayedi

2011: Liye Ma

2010: Vineet Kumar

2009: Guoming Lai

2008: Fernando Anjos

2007: Iulian Obreja

2006: Michael Peress

2005: Amy Xue Sun, A. Cevdet Aydemir

2004: Senthil K. Veeraraghavan

2003: Shibo Li

2002: Rahul Telang

2001: Hoon Kim

2000: Munir Tolga Akcura

1999: Li Zhang

1998: Srinagesh Gaverneni

1997: Roman Kapuscinski

1996: Prabu Davamanirajan

1995: Rajdeep Singh, Steve Sung

1994: Frederick J. Riggins

1993: Haresh Gurnani

1992: David Green

1991: Anitesh Barua

The Paul S. Goodman Doctoral Dissertation Award was given for the first time in 2016, by a committee consisting of Professors Denise Rousseau, Ranga Ramanujam and Gerard Beenen.

2022: Benjamin Ostrowski

2021: Matthew Angelo Diabes

2020: Pranav Gupta

2019: Elizabeth L. Campbell

2016:
Yeonjeong Kim

Four previous winners of the Henderson Award have gone on to earn the Nobel Prize in Economics.

2023: Majid Mahzoon, University of Central Florida

2022:
Sang Wu, Columbia Business School

2021: Ali Oğuz Polat, Warner Music Group

2020: Nick Pretnar, University of California, Santa Barbara (post-doc)

2019:  Eungsik Kim, University of Kansas

2018: 
Emilio Bisetti, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology

2016:
Cédric Ehouarne, Bank of America

2015: Jessie Jiaxu Wang, Arizona State University

2014: Batchimeg Sambalaibat, University of Oklahoma

2013: Artem Neklyudov, HEC, Université de Lausanne

2012: Federico Gavazzoni, INSEAD

2011: Özgün Ekici, Ozyegin University

2010: Edwige Cheynel, Columbia University

2009: James Richard Lowery, University of Texas at Austin

2008: Jeremy Bertomeu, Baruch College

2007: Francisco Palomino, University of Michigan

2006: Roman Sustek, Bank of England

2005: Espen Henriksen, University of Oslo

2004: Sean Crockett, Baruch College

2002: Aydogan Alti, University of Texas at Austin

2001: M. Fatih Guvenen, University of Minnesota

2000: Ulf Axelson, London School of Economics

1999: Vivek Ramachandran, Maracon Associates

1998: Mico Mrkaic, International Monetary Fund

1997: Jamsheed Shorish, Institute for Advanced Studies, Vienna

1994: Patrick William Sileo, Carnegie Mellon University

1993: Suleyman Basak, London Business School

1991: Wouter den Haan, University of Amsterdam

1990: Madhav Rajan, Stanford University

1988: David A. Marshall, Chicago Federal Reserve

1987: Kim G. Balls, DFA Capital Management

1986: Daniel Mark Bernhardt, University of Illinois

1985: Daniel E. Ingberman, University of California at Berkeley

1984: Sumru G. Altug, Koç University

1983: Ravi K. Jagannathan, Northwestern University

1981: Varadarajan V. Chari, University of Minnesota

1980: Ronald A. Dye, Northwestern University

1978: Edward J. Green, Pennsylvania State University

1977: Charles A. Holt. Jr., University of Virginia

1976: Marie-Therese Flaherty, Wharton Small Business Development Center

1975: Robert E. Forsythe, University of South Florida

1974: Constantine C. Azariadis, Washington University in Saint Louis

1973: Finn E. Kydland, University of California at Santa Barbara and Carnegie Mellon University [2004 Nobel Prize in Economics]

1972: George F. Brown, Jr., Blue Canyon Partners

1971: Marcel Boyer, Université de Montréal

1970: Michel Truchon, Université Laval

1969: Charles W. Upton, Kent State University

1968: Jan Mossin, Norwegian School of Economics & Business Administration

1967: Edward C. Prescott, Arizona State University [2004 Nobel Prize in Economics]

1966: Richard Schramm

1965: Dale T. Mortensen, Northwestern University [2010 Nobel Prize in Economics]

1964: Bertil Naslund, Stockholm School of Economics (emeritus)

1963: Ferdinand K. Levy, Georgia Tech (emeritus)

1962: Oliver E. Williamson, University of California at Berkeley [2009 Nobel Prize in Economics]

1961: Frederick S. Hammer, Inter-Atlantic Group

1960: Andrew B. Whinston, University of Texas at Austin

1959: Andrew C. Stedry

1958: Clarence J. Huizenga

1957: David Chambers, London Business School (emeritus)

1956: Kalman J. Cohen, Duke University (emeritus)

1955: Albert K. Ando, University of Pennsylvania

1954: John F. Muth, Indiana University

2023-24

LIying Qiu, Henry J. Gailliot Presidential Fellowship

Yikang Shen, Tata Consultancy Services Presidential Fellowship

Xiaohang (Flora) Feng, Presidential Fellowship in the Tepper School of Business

Qiaochu Wang, Paul and James W. Wang - Sercomm Presidential Fellowship

2022-23

Jenny Oh, Henry J. Gailliot Presidential Fellowship

Yikang Shen, Tata Consultancy Services Presidential Fellowship

Martin Michelini, Presidential Fellowship in the Tepper School of Business

Behnam Mohammadi, Paul and James W. Wang - Sercomm Presidential Fellowship

2021-22

Musa Çeldir, Henry J. Gailliot Presidential Fellowship

Kevin Pierre Mott, Tata Consultancy Services Presidential Fellowship

Jisoo Park, Presidential Fellowship in the Tepper School of Business

Lavender Yang, Paul and James W. Wang - Sercomm Presidential Fellowship

2020-21

Caroline Hopkins, Presidential Fellowship in the Tepper School of Business

Sae-Seul Park, Henry J. Gailliot Presidential Fellowship

2019-20

Kyra Gan, Tata Consultancy Services Fellowship

Nikhil Malik, Henry J. Gailliot Presidential Fellowship

Neda Mirzaeian, Presidential Fellowship in the Tepper School of Business

2018-19

Pranav Gupta, Presidential Fellowship in the Tepper School of Business

Sang Wu, Henry J. Gailliot Presidential Fellowship

2017-18

Elizabeth L. Campbell, Henry J. Gailliot Presidential Fellowship

Alessandro Iorio, Presidential Fellowship in the Tepper School of Business

Zijun Shi, Paul & James Wang Sercomm Presidential Fellowship

2016-17

Julian Givi, Presidential Fellowship in the Tepper School of Business

Dabeen Lee, Henry J. Gailliot Presidential Fellowship

2015-16

Anna Mayo, Presidential Fellowship in the Tepper School of Business

Benjamin Tengelsen, Henry J. Gailliot Presidential Fellowship

The PNC Presidential Fellowships are awarded to doctoral students whose career focus is in the future of financial services, with a multidisciplinary emphasis on machine learning, data analytics, finance and marketing.

2024:

Yizhen Xie and Kerry Zhang

2023:

Cheng (Leo) Li and Qiaochu Wang

2022:

Özgün Elçi and Yanhan (Savannah) Tang

2021:

Ali Oğuz Polat and Bo Yang

2020:

Zahra Ebrahimi and Nikhil Malik

2019: 

Siyu (Eric) Lu and Vitaly Merso

2024: Jenny Oh

2023:  Matthew Diabes, Ki-Won Haan

2022:
Sae-Seul Park

2021: Jisoo Park

2020: Elizabeth L. Campbell

2019: Pranav Gupta

2018:
Anna Mayo

2017:
Evelyn Ying Zhang

2016: Jonathan Kush

2015: Amanda Weirup

2014: Jin Wook Chang

2013: Ishani Aggarwal, Nazli Turan

2012: Samuel Swift

2011: Uriel Haran

2008: Julia B. Bear

2007: Gerard Beenen

2006: Daylian M. Cain

2005: Marco Tortoriello

2004: Aimee A. Kane

1998: Seungwoo Kwon

1997: Rangaraj Ramanujam

1996: Deborah E. Gibbons

The award is for behavioral science research applied to the problems of administrative behavior, an area which Professor Simon's research helped to define and to develop.

2024: Sae-Seul Park

2023:
Jisoo Park

2022: Pranav Gupta

2021: Elizabeth L. Campbell

2020: Alessandro Iorio

2019: Phong Truong

2018: Evelyn Ying Zhang

2017: Erin Fahrenkopf

2016: Jonathan Kush

2015: Elina Hyeunjung Hwang

2014: Nazli Turan

2013: Ishani Aggarwal

2012: Uriel Haran

2011: Meng Zhu

2010: Sharique Hasan

2009: Cynthia Cryder

2008: Darron M. Billeter

2007: Daylian M. Cain

2006: Jian Xue

2005: Aimee A. Kane

2004: Sean Crockett

2003: Eleanor Lewis

2002: Carter Butts

1999: Hisashi Yamagata

1998: Sally Sleeper

1996: Lucien Randazzese

1995: Robert Austin

Awarded each year to honor an outstanding doctoral dissertation involving theoretical, computational and applied contributions in the area of Management Science. The award was established and endowed in 2001 in honor of Gerald L. Thompson, a GSIA/Tepper School faculty member from 1951-2001.

2024: Mik Zlatin

2023:
Rudy Zhou

2022: Su Jia

2021: Ziye Tang

2020: Arash Haddadan

2019: Nam Ho-Nguyen, Dabeen Lee

2018:
 Thiago Serra

2016: Sercan Yildiz

2015: Andre Augusto Cire

2014: Negar Soheili Azad

2013: Marco Molinaro

2012: Emre Nadar

2011: Baojun Jiang

2010: Amitabh Basu

2009: Viswanath Nagarajan

2008: Anureet Saxena

2007: Miroslav Karamanov

2006: Tallys H. Yunes

2005: Cuihong Li

2004: Amitabh Sinha