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."

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

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

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

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

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

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

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