Mr. Lewen Zheng, a PhD student under the supervision of Prof. Dohyun Ahn, won the INFORMS-Sim Best Student Paper Award at the 2023 Winter Simulation Conference, held from December 10 to 13, 2023, in San Antonio, TX, USA. The awarded paper is titled “Conditional Importance Sampling for Convex Rare-Event Sets.”
The INFORMS Simulation Society (INFORMS-Sim) sponsors the Winter Simulation Conference PhD Colloquium for PhD students within two years of graduation and awards a Best Student Paper prize among those students making a presentation at both the PhD colloquium and a regular track of the conference.