Awards
The winners of MD4SG'20 awards for exemplary work are:
Best Paper Award:
- Top Percent Policies and the Return to Postsecondary Selectivity, by Zachary Bleemer
- Competition under Social Interactions and the Design of Education Policies, by Claudia Allende
Best Paper with Student Presenter:
- All Things Equal? Social Networks as a Mechanism for Discrimination, by Chika Okafor
- Large-scale clinical trial of an AI-augmented intervention for HIV prevention in youth experiencing homelessness, by Bryan Wilder, Laura Onasch-Vera, Graham Diguiseppi, Robin Petering, Chyna Hill, Amulya Yadav, Eric Rice and Milind Tambe
New Horizons Award:
- Feminicide & Machine Learning: Detecting Gender-based Violence to Strengthen Civil Sector Activism, by Catherine D’Ignazio, Helena Suarez Val, Silvana Fumega, Harini Suresh, Isadora Cruxen, Wonyoung So, Maria De Los Angeles Martinez and Mariel Garcia-Montes
- Modeling Assumptions Clash with the Real World: Configuring Student Assignment Algorithms to Serve Community Needs, by Samantha Robertson, Tonya Nguyen and Niloufar Salehi
Most Popular Poster:
- Laboratorio de Derecho y Política Local, propone: Red de Monitoras y Monitores Derecho para Todos, by Lorayne Finol Romero, Cecilia González Jeria and Maximiliano Núñez Gómez
- Guaranteeing Maximin Shares: Some Agents Left Behind, by Hadi Hosseini, Andrew Searns and Sawyer Welden
- A Comparison of Living Standards Across the States of America, by Vegard Nygaard and Elena Falcettoni
Participant Awards #
The Best Tweet Award is given to Denizalp, Kirabo L. Byabashaija, and Beto Saavedra, for their fun and engaging tweets.