Tepper School Honors Exceptional Doctoral Students at 2025 Awards Ceremony
Caitlin Kizielewicz
- Email ckiz@andrew.cmu.edu
- Phone 412-554-0074
Each year, the Tepper School of Business recognizes the achievements of its doctoral students whose work reflects the rigor and innovation at the core of the school鈥檚 mission. At this year鈥檚 Ph.D. Awards Ceremony鈥攈eld in the PNC Rooms of the Tepper Quad鈥攖op honors were awarded across disciplines for research that is shaping the frontiers of knowledge.
The Tepper School congratulates all award recipients for their exceptional achievements and continued contributions to research and scholarship!
Egon Balas Award for Best Student Paper in Operations Research/ACO
Sebasti谩n V谩squez Llorente was selected for his paper, 鈥淢ixed-Integer Bilevel Programs with Multiple Noncooperative Followers.鈥� Established in 2004, the award honors the legacy of Egon Balas (1922鈥�2019), a trailblazer in operations research and long-time faculty member at the Tepper School from 1967鈥�2019 holding the Thomas Lord Professor of Operations Research chair.
Award Committee: Karan Singh (Chair), Emily Diana
Dipankar and Sharmila Chakravarti Doctoral Fellowship Award in Recognition of Outstanding Contributions to Research to Marketing
Liying Qiu was recognized for outstanding contributions to research in marketing. The award, established in 2014, is endowed by Tepper School Ph.D. alumnus Dipankar Chakravarti (Ph.D. 鈥�79) and Sharmila Chakravarti.
Award Committee: Tim Derdenger (Chair), Alan Montgomery
Paul S. Goodman Doctoral Dissertation Award
Jenny Oh received the Goodman Award, which honors excellence in organizational behavior and theory. Established in 2016, the award commemorates Paul S. Goodman (1937鈥�2012), a scholar, author, and filmmaker who held the Richard M. Cyert Professorship of Organizational Psychology at the Tepper School.
Award Committee: Denise Rousseau (Chair), Gerard Beenen, Rangaraj Ramanujam
Alexander Henderson Award for Excellence in Economic Theory
Nicholas C. Hoffman was honored with this prestigious award, established in 1954 in memory of Alexander Henderson. The fellowship recognizes exceptional research in economic theory. Four past recipients of this award have gone on to receive the Nobel Prize in Economics.
Award Committee: Stephen Spear, Laurence Ales, Ali Shourideh, Ariel Zetlin-Jones
Carnegie Mellon Presidential Fellowships, 2024鈥�25
The Presidential Fellowship program at 麻豆村 was established by then-President Subra Suresh in 2014 to provide one year of financial support to doctoral students who have contributed an impactful body of work to their field of research.
Tepper School recipients for the 2024鈥�25 academic year include:
- Henry J. Gailliot Presidential Fellowship: Liying Qiu, 5th Year, Business Technologies
- Presidential Fellowship in the Tepper School of Business: Aidin Niaparast, 4th Year, Algorithms, Combinatorics, and Optimization
- Tata Consultancy Services [TCS] Presidential Fellowship: Behnam Mohammadi, 6th Year, Marketing
- Paul and James W. Wang 鈥� Sercomm Presidential Graduate Fellowship: Xiaohang (Flora) Feng, 5th Year, Marketing