Committee: George Lan (Chair, GaTech)
Güzin Bayraksan (Ohio State University), Grani Hanasusanto (UIUC), Andrew Trapp (WPI)

The 2025 ICS Prize Committee also recommended one submission as the recipient of Honorable Mention:
Shabbir Ahmed (in memoriam), Yongpei Guan, Ruiwei Jiang, and Weijun Xie

Committee: Ryan Cory-Wright (Imperial College London), Austin Buchanan, Chair (Oklahoma State University), Yongchun Li (CUHK), Young Woong Park (Iowa State University)

Honorable Mention: Matías Villagra (Columbia) for the paper "Accurate Linear Cutting-Plane Relaxations for ACOPF," co-authored by Daniel Bienstock and Matías Villagra.

Honorable Mention: Yupeng Wu (London Business School) for the paper "The Surprising Performance of Random Partial Benders Decomposition," co-authored by Jean Pauphilet.

The award committee also identified a runner-up and two honorable mentions, in no particular order:
Runner-up: Thomas Hübner (ETH Zürich) for the paper "Spatial branch-and-bound for nonconvex separable piecewise linear optimization," co-authored with Akshay Gupte and Steffen Rebennack

Committee Chairs: Selva Nadarajah (UIC) and
Andre A. Cire (UofT)

Honorable Mention 1: Soroush Saghafian. "Ambiguous Dynamic Treatment Regimes: A Reinforcement Learning Approach."
Honorable Mention 2: Xiao-Yue Gong and David Simchi-Levi. "Bandits atop Reinforcement Learning: Tackling Online Inventory Models with Cyclic Demands."

Andre Augusto Cire walks a fine line to get the benefits from expected feasible and exact feasible relaxations by proposing a structure aware Lagrangian relaxation at the INFORMS Computing Society @informs.bsky.social @icsinforms.bsky.social Conference.