We are thrilled to announce the winner of the GAMSPy Student Competition for Fall 2025! This season’s first-place prize goes to Nikhil Trivedi, a dual-major undergraduate student in Computer Science and Atmospheric & Oceanic Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Nikhil’s winning project, titled “Optimal Weather Radar Network Design for Texas,” tackles a critical meteorological challenge using advanced optimization techniques. By transforming a complex environmental problem into a mathematical model, Nikhil demonstrated how GAMSPy can be used to improve early warning systems for severe weather.
A big shout out also goes to the 2nd and 3rd place winners: Emilie Lesinski, also from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Koushik Malli Jayachandran, from RWTH Aachen University. We had many impressive submissions, but these three projects stood out for their creative use of modeling methods, combined with a clever pipeline integration in Python, making the best use of GAMSPy capabilities.
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