<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><pre style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="Helvetica">Dear Colleagues,</font></pre><pre><font face="Helvetica"><font color="#000000"><span style="text-wrap: wrap;">We cordially invite your students to participate in the 2024 </span></font>QCRE<font color="#000000"><span style="text-wrap: wrap;"> Student Paper Competition. The submission deadline </span></font><strike style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">is <b>February 9, 2024</b>.</strike><span style="text-wrap: wrap;"><font color="#000000"> </font><font color="#ff0000"><b>is extended to 02/11/2024 (11:59 PM local time of the lead author).</b></font><font color="#000000">

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 finalists must be registered prior to the conference to be eligible for this competition. All finalist papers are eligible for INFORMS journal on Data Science (IJDS) recommendation and will be announced in March 2024.

</font></span></font><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:normal;font-family:Helvetica">Details of the Competition can be found in the attached file. </span></pre><pre style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="Helvetica">Competition Coordinators
</font><pre style="text-wrap: wrap;"><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%7C9d7f6d608307470ca54f08dc28e03d31%7C0c9bf8f6ccad4b87818d49026938aa97%7C0%7C0%7C638430190935582667%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=pBL%2FB92%2Fqjn25vLLXa%2B2Fyy3plzyfOxElkD3RYUDSzE%3D&reserved=0" originalSrc="https://mailman.clemson.edu/mailman/listinfo/iefac.list" shash="PierGpK3/eV6vXLS1A37YnXsEMe59voPvNuEJ82pESbTEM4cVVY0SeSbNCn5EWLukJjglPMttnNs0R3ceC1rzSd5tILF0VX5BnQgrIfouxo+e5tJMr0PHzKtTBhkJ74hIlt8cY3KXdtR09yaqsBRyjvGeG1Uarv7up354ak/Qbw=" target="_blank">dli4@clemson.edu</a>), Clemson University</font></pre><pre style="text-wrap: wrap;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica">Syed Hasib Akhter Faruqui (</span><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%7C9d7f6d608307470ca54f08dc28e03d31%7C0c9bf8f6ccad4b87818d49026938aa97%7C0%7C0%7C638430190935582667%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=pBL%2FB92%2Fqjn25vLLXa%2B2Fyy3plzyfOxElkD3RYUDSzE%3D&reserved=0" originalSrc="https://mailman.clemson.edu/mailman/listinfo/iefac.list" shash="PierGpK3/eV6vXLS1A37YnXsEMe59voPvNuEJ82pESbTEM4cVVY0SeSbNCn5EWLukJjglPMttnNs0R3ceC1rzSd5tILF0VX5BnQgrIfouxo+e5tJMr0PHzKtTBhkJ74hIlt8cY3KXdtR09yaqsBRyjvGeG1Uarv7up354ak/Qbw=" target="_blank" style="font-family:Helvetica">shf006@shsu.edu</a><span style="font-family:Helvetica">), Sam Houston State University</span></pre></pre></div></div></div></div>