<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div><pre style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font face="Helvetica">Dear Colleagues,</font></pre><pre style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font face="Helvetica">

We cordially invite your students to participate in the 2024 QCRE Student Paper Competition. The submission deadline is February 9, 2024.

This year, the winner will be selected prior to the conference based on the double-blind review process. All finalists will be invited to present at the competition session at the 2024 IISE conference. All finalist papers are eligible for INFORMS journal on Data Science (IJDS) recommendation and will be announced in March 2024.

<span style="font-family: Helvetica; white-space: normal;">Details of the Competition can be found in the attached file. Alternatively the details can be found in this linkedin post here: <a href="https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fposts%2Fdan-li-76721385_qcre-2024-student-paper-competition-activity-7122229753922682880-jh9g%3Futm_source%3Dshare%26utm_medium%3Dmember_desktop&data=05%7C02%7Ciefac.list%40mailman.clemson.edu%7C18e01ddfd57048d3b9b508dc19033c4e%7C0c9bf8f6ccad4b87818d49026938aa97%7C0%7C0%7C638412749175335038%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=VtZNTeiQ3rwHx%2BHiZRzbbnw%2FvkkX%2BDFfRQdvggyx63E%3D&reserved=0" originalSrc="https://www.linkedin.com/posts/dan-li-76721385_qcre-2024-student-paper-competition-activity-7122229753922682880-jh9g?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop" shash="m48UG4whVkUNdD7dgiU7dKekC!

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<pre><font face="Helvetica">Dan Li (<a href="https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmailman.clemson.edu%2Fmailman%2Flistinfo%2Fiefac.list&data=05%7C02%7Ciefac.list%40mailman.clemson.edu%7C18e01ddfd57048d3b9b508dc19033c4e%7C0c9bf8f6ccad4b87818d49026938aa97%7C0%7C0%7C638412749175491375%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=U79fbwvU8%2Fsta9tipuMOo9uYkoYSJ2Jem7SQd2A7RaU%3D&reserved=0" originalSrc="https://mailman.clemson.edu/mailman/listinfo/iefac.list" shash="QXDvnyR+XHgf70BliuRNwDG1zzYq/QecGHd6tueyo6yLstcH9430AVLSx7B8ziv2ECMw1TlDJqRPRBeV+HY1FoVT/HuseNLY1RDl9h7mGvq0w1o3B5PNoHxFG8hmMQ4wQtNndwckthzLnscVkJVSSiUm5JO21O4yFKR+tylOOiE=">dli4@clemson.edu</a>), Clemson University</pre><pre><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Syed Hasib Akhter Faruqui (<a href="https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmailman.clemson.edu%2Fmailm!

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