Award Winners

Award Winners

2024 WDSI Aware Winners

Junior Faculty Award

  • John Xie – California State University Sacramento
  • Mohammadali (Mo) Fallah – California State University, Fresno
  • Alireza Yazdani – California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
  • Jianliang Hao – California State University, Chico
  • Xiao Xiao – California State University, Stanislaus

Best Paper Award – 

  • Application Category – Geometric Median Decomposition Method to Minimize Aggregate Fit Loss, by 
    •  Ariya Xuxu Amoozegar-Montero, Victoria University
    •  Aida Amoozegar-Montero, You Know. Clothing
    •  Mahyar Amouzegar, New Mexico Tech
    •  Khosrow Moshirvaziri, California State University, Long Beach
    •  Edgar Rodriguez Ramirez, Victoria University
  • Empirical Category – Market Fragmentation and Manipulation, by 
    • Douglas Cumming, Florida Atlantic University
    • Shan Ji, Zhejiang Gongshang University
    • Suchismita Mishra, Florida International University
    • Le Zhao, California State University, Fresno
  • Environmental Category – The Paris Agreement Impact on the Cost of Equity Capital:  Evidence from Heavy Polluting Industries, by
    • Chengli Zheng, Central China Normal University
    • Yuanyuan Zhou, Central China Normal University
    • Wenjing Ouyang, University of the Pacific

2023 WDSI Aware Winners

Junior Faculty Award

  • John Xie – California State University Sacramento
  • Xiaotong Liu – California State University Monterey Bay
  • Gene Shan – University of Houston – Clear Lake
  • Pinyarat (Mink) Sirisomboonsuk – University of Texas Permian Basin
  • Zhi Tao – University of Alaska Anchorage

Best Paper Award

  • Case Study – David Lynn Hoffman, Debora J. Gilliard, and Sally Baalbaki-Yassine (Metropolitan State University, Denver), “ZILLOW GROUP, INC.: CHANGING THE WAY AMERICANS BUY HOMES
  • Empirical Research – Saahir Shafir (CSU Dominguez Hills) and Daniel Mallinson (Pennsylvania State University Harrisburg), “Punctuated Equilibrium Dynamics in Times of Crisis: Assessing Generalizability to Different Political Systems and Temporal Invariance