Best Paper Award at ACM EAAMO 2026

I am delighted to share that our paper, Admission Policies with Exam Retakes: Efficiency–Equity Trade-offs in Multidimensional Scoring, co-authored with my PhD student Rahul Sharma, received the Best Paper Award at ACM EAAMO 2026. The conference took place on November 5–7, 2026, at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München in Munich, Germany.

Our paper studies how admissions policies account for repeated exam attempts and the resulting trade-offs between efficiency and equity. I am especially happy to share this recognition with Rahul and grateful for his hard work and collaboration.

My sincere thanks to the conference organizers, especially general chairs Christoph Kern and Clara Strasser Ceballos, and program chairs Hannah Li and Miri Zilka, for their work in bringing the conference together and for this recognition. I am also grateful to the program committee and reviewers for their time and thoughtful consideration of our work, and to the local organizing team and volunteers at LMU Munich for hosting the EAAMO community.

Thank you to everyone who helped make the conference a welcoming place to exchange ideas about equity and access in algorithms, mechanisms, and optimization.