INFORMS QSR (Quality, Statistics, and Reliability Section in INFORMS) organizes the contest once every year. A panel of five to six judges independently gives a score based on the poster's content, presentation and Q&A. The top three posters are considered to be the winners of the Best Poster Award. Dadi shared the second place with another student.

The title of Dadi's poster was "Optimal Supersaturated Design via Lasso." His research focuses on supersaturated experiment design, which could be used in simulation-based experiments, genomic study, drug development, etc. The abstract is as follows:

"In the supersaturated design (SSD) study, most existing criteria for constructing optimal SSD are motivated and further justified from the estimation perspective. We proposed a number of optimality criteria for the construction of SSD from the perspective of penalized least square methods such as Lasso. The properties of these criteria will be discussed. A computing algorithm will be used to construct such optimal SSD, examples of simulation and an application of the algorithm will also be presented."