Martin Takác, a PhD student in Operational Research and Optimization, was successful in the INFORMS
Computing Society Student Paper Award Competition. As the
sole runner-up, he won the 2nd prize with the paper Iteration Complexity
of Randomized Block-Coordinate Descent Methods for Minimizing a
Composite Function, co-authored with Peter Richtarik.
INFORMS (Institute for Operations Research and the Management
Sciences) is the largest professional society in the world for
professionals in the field of operations research, management science,
and business analytics.
