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iEMSs 2024 Student Awards

We had a large volume of excellent student presentations again at iEMSs 2024 and with the help of the session organisers and additional volunteer judges, awarded the following student prizes1 in East Lansing on the final day of the conference:

1st prize: Douglas Radford for „Process-based aggregation reduces dimensionality and enables surrogate model development: An application to wildfire risk modelling“

2nd prize: Palok Biswas for „Equity-Informed Multi-objective Optimization: Examining the Regional Distribution of Emission Control“

And a joint 3rd prize:
Samira Islam for „Tracking Leakage in Water Distribution Networks Using Multi-Agent Systems, Machine Learning, and GPR “
and
Jiayu Yao for “Water distribution system design under long-term uncertainty considering solar energy as a supplementary energy source”

We congratulate all awardees and will send a formal award certificate out to each of them in due course.

1) The awards will comprise the following:
1st prize – free registration at student’s preferred iEMSs, regional iEMSs or MODSIM and to be taken before the end of 2028.
2nd prize – €500 to be applied towards travel to iEMSs, regional iEMSs or MODSIM before the end of 2028.
3rd prize €250 to be applied towards travel to iEMSs, regional iEMSs or MODSIM before the end of 2028.

Office

The iEMSs Office (2024-2026)

President 

Val Snow, AgResearch, New Zealand

Secretary

Takuya Iwanaga, Australian Institute of Marine Science, Australia

Treasurer

Ioannis Athanasiadis, Wageningen University, The Netherlands

Vice -presidents

  • Marina Erechtchoukova, York University, Canada
  • Min Chen, Nanjing Normal University, China
  • Peter Khaiter, York University, Canada
  • Sondoss Elsawah, UNSW, Australia

Arbitrators

Carlo Lepori, IDSIA, Lugano, Switzerland
Andrea-Emilio Rizzoli
, IDSIA USI/SUPSI, Switzerland

The iEMSs Board and the iEMSs Office are in charge for 2 years, new elections will be held in 2024, before the iEMSs 2024 biennial meeting.

Past-presidents

2020-2024 Stefan Reis, UKCEH, United Kingdom

2016-2020 Dan Ames, Brigham Young University, United States

2012-2016: Andrea Emilio Rizzoli, IDSIA, Switzerland

2008-2012: Alexey Voinov, ITC, U Twente, The Netherlands

2004-2008: Giorgio Guariso, Politecnico di Milano, Italy, EU

2000-2004: Anthony J. Jakeman, Australian National University, Australia.

Board

The iEMSs Board of Directors (2024-2026)

In addition to the Office members, the following iEMSs members compose the Board of Directors:

  • Dan Ames
  • Ioannis Athanasiadis
  • Susan Cuddy
  • Karina Gibert
  • Tony Jakeman
  • Chris Knightes
  • Junzhi Liu
  • Pouyan Nejadhashemi
  • Cheng-Zhi Qin
  • Saman Razavi
  • Stefan Reis
  • Andrea Rizzoli
  • Wenyan Wu
  • Fengyuan Zhang

The iEMSs Board  are in charge for 2 years, new elections will be held in 2026, prior to the Biennial Meeting.