APS Awards and Nominations

The Applied Probability Society of INFORMS offers one prize each year, alternating between the Best Publication in Applied Probability Award (in odd numbered years) and the Erlang Prize for Young Applied Probabilists (in even numbered years).
  Award Winners

Year Award Winners Affiliation
2007 Best Publication H. Christian Gromoll
Amber L. Puha
Ruth J. Williams
University of Virginia
California State University
UC San Diego
2006 Erlang Prize Kavita Ramanan CMU
2005 Best Publication Ayalvadi Ganesh
Neil O’Connell
Damon Wischik
Microsoft Research (Cambridge)
University College Cork
University College London
2004
Erlang Prize
David Gamarnik
IBM T. J. Watson Research Center
2004
Best Publication
Alexander Stolyar
Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies
2002 Erlang Prize Steven Kou Columbia University
2001 Best Publication Edward G. Coffman, Jr.
Anatolii A. Puhalskii
Martin I. Reiman
Columbia University
University of Colorado at Denver
Bell Labs
2000 Erlang Prize Balaji Prabhakar
David Tse
Stanford University
University of California at Berkeley
1999 Best Publication Muhammed El-Taha
Shaler Stidham, Jr.
University of Southern Maine
University of North Carolina
1998 Erlang Prize Xiuli Chao
Jim Dai
New Jersey Institute of Technology
Georgia Institute of Technology
1997 Best Publication Jim Dai Georgia Institute of Technology
1996 Erlang Prize Dimitris J. Bertsimas
Paul Glasserman
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Columbia University
1995 Best Publication Sean Meyn
Richard Tweedie
University of Illinois
Colorado State University
1994 Erlang Prize Lawrence M. Wein Massachusetts Institute of Technology