Application to CSAMSE Management Science Practice Award

CSAMSE is proud of the establishment of an award that recognizes and celebrates an outstanding contribution in applying the principles of Management Science and Engineering to address a real-world challenge. The CSAMSE Practice Award (管理实践奖) will be bestowed on an individual or a group of collaborators. An eligible application must provide evidence of practical impact, which is broadly defined to be any contribution to a business or an organization in terms of performance improvements or changes in how practitioners approach a real-world problem. The 2023 CSAMSE Practice Award will be granted at the CSAMSE’s 15^th annual international conference on July 29 to July 30, 2023 in Shenzhen and organized by the School of Data Science at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen. 

Application

The application should provide a cover letter and a 10-page narrative, in English or in Chinese, that addresses:

1. What is the main management challenge raised from reality?
— What societal, economic, technical, and managerial challenges have been overcome in completing the project?

2. What are the core ideas and knowledge advancement of management science and engineering (MSE) in the work?
— Are there technical innovations in the project? Innovations may be derived from the creation of new MSE methods and/or the application of existing MSE methods to new problems or new environments.

3.  How does the work impact a real-world business or organization?
— What are the major quantified and non-quantified impacts of the work? How important was the work to the client and/or executives?
— Is this work portable to other applications or industries?

A complete application must also include three letters of recommendation, also in English or in Chinese, with at least one from a practitioner. Contact information for the letter writers should be provided so that the award committee can follow up with further inquiries. Each application will be assessed based on the management science component, the practical impact so far, and the potential for a larger impact in the future.

Please send applications to csamseawards@163.com by June 25, 2023.

Selection Process

Based on the application materials, the award committee selects three finalists, who will be invited to each give a 30-minute presentation at the conference. Some judges from the award committee will attend the presentations, and they will vote to determine the year’s winner.

All finalists will receive an attractive plaque, and will be recognized and celebrated at the conference, and their works will be prominently featured on the CSAMSE website. This year’s awardees will also receive bonus sponsored by Cardinal Operations (杉数科技).

To maximize the dissemination of the award-winning contributions, the finalists are each required to publish an extended abstract of their work in the prestigious management science journal in China “管理科学学报(中文版)” (Journal of Management Science in China). This should occur by the end of the year of the award. In addition, they can submit a full paper to Journal of Management Science and Engineering (JMSE) for being given consideration of publication, subject to of course the journals’ editorial requirements and expedited review process.