GERAD warmly congratulates Abdelhakim Abdellaoui and Issmail El Hallaoui from Polytechnique Montréal, Loubna Benabbou from UQAR, and François Aubé and Mouloud Amazouz from Natural Resources Canada (NRCan), who were finalists for the prestigious 2026 Daniel H. Wagner Award presented by INFORMS. They were recognized for their project, "NRCan Bridges the Practicability Gap in Log Transportation Optimization."

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Abdelhakim Abdellaoui, PhD student at Polytechnique Montréal and NRCan, Issmail El Hallaoui, Professor at Polytechnique Montréal, and Loubna Benabbou, Professor at UQAR, were awarded the 1st place for the Practice Prize from the Canadian Operational Research Society during the 67th CORS Annual Conference for the project "Bridging the Practicability Gap: A Hybrid Optimization and Machine Learning DSS for Log Transportation at NRCan", with François Aubé et Mouloud Amazouz from NRCan.

GERAD is proud to announce the participation of its students at the EURO 2025 conference in Leeds (UK), one of the biggest international events in operations research.