Dennis J. O'Brien USAEE Best Student Paper Award

USAEE/IAEE student members may compete for a Student Paper Award at the yearly USAEE/IAEE North American Conference. The author of the best paper receives the Dennis J. O'Brien USAEE Best Student Paper Award and a $1,000 (USD) prize. To view criteria for the next USAEE Best Student Paper Award, please visit http://www.usaee.org/USAEE2010/paperawards.html. USAEE is grateful to Southern Company who has generously underwritten the Dennis J. O'Brien USAEE Best Student Paper Award in 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009.

Awarded Papers

32nd IAEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE (hosted by USAEE), SAN FRANCISCO, CA, 2009:
The Dennis J. O'Brien USAEE Best Student Paper Award: Idle Oil Wells: Half Empty or Half Full? - Lucija Muehlenbachs

Other students who received USAEE Paper Awards with a stipend of $750 and complimentary conference registration are:

• Fatemeh Nazifi, Macquarie University
• Deepak Rajagopal, University of California, Berkeley
• Nic Rivers, Simon Fraser University

28th USAEE/IAEE NORTH AMERICAN CONFERENCE, NEW ORLEANS, LA, 2008:
The Dennis J. O'Brien USAEE Best Student Paper Award: Valuing Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles' Battery Capacity Using a Real Options Framework - Derek M. Lemoine

Other students who received USAEE Paper Awards with a stipend of $500 and complimentary conference registration are:

• Ayed Al-Qahtani, Colorado School of Mines
• David Baumann, University of Texas at Austin
• Jiyong Eom, Stanford University
• Janne Kettunen, London Business School
• Ning Wu, MIT

27th USAEE/IAEE NORTH AMERICAN CONFERENCE, HOUSTON, TX, 2007:
The Dennis J. O'Brien USAEE Best Student Paper Award: International Environmental Agreements: Is Global Cooperation Possible? - Katherine V. Calvin

Other students who received USAEE Paper Awards with a stipend of $500 and complimentary conference registration are:

• Merrill Jones Barradale, University of California, Berkeley
• Elaine Frey, George Washington University
• Derek Lemoine, University of California, Berkeley
• Kathleen Spees, Carnegie Mellon University
• Fan Zhang, Harvard University

26th USAEE/IAEE NORTH AMERICAN CONFERENCE, ANN ARBOR, MI, 2006:
The Dennis J. O'Brien USAEE Best Student Paper Award: A Stochastic Programming Framework for the Valuation of Electricity Storage - Pedram Mokrian & Moff Stephen

Other students who received USAEE Paper Awards with a stipend of $500 are:

• Adam Brandt, University of California, Berkeley
• Diana Schwyzer, University of California, Berkeley
• Svetlana Ikonnikova, Humboldt University, Berlin
• Daniel Dempsey, New York University
• Greg Nemet, University of California, Berkeley
• Olusegun Oladunjoye, University of Guelph
• Sophia Ruester, Dresden University of Technology

25th IAEE/USAEE NORTH AMERICAN CONFERENCE, DENVER, 2005:
Does Uncertainty Matter? A Competing Risks Analysis of Investment in Petroleum Refining Industry - Xiaoyi Mu - 1st
Optimal Environmental Policies in a Heterogeneous Product Market Under Resesarch and Development Competition and Cooperation - Olusegun Oladunjoye - 2nd
Econometric Study On Long-term Energy Strategy of Malaysia to the year 2030 - focusing on the impacts of renewable energy-based power generation - Peck Yean Gan - 3rd
Impact Mitigation for Emergency Events: Their Effects on Day-ahead and Real Time Market Locational Based Marginal Pricing at the New York ISO - Shoko Nakano - 4th

24th USAEE/IAEE NORTH AMERICAN CONFERENCE, WASHINGTON DC, 2004:
Spatial Pattern in Modeling Electricity Prices: Evidence from the PJM Market - Julia Popova

23rd USAEE/IAEE NORTH AMERICAN CONFERENCE, MEXICO CITY, 2003:
Efficient Tariffs for Cost Revelation in a Price and Quantity Constrained Electric Power Market - Serhiy Kotsan