Awards and Recognition
Awards and recognition for members of the Optimization and Operational Research group
External recognition
- Miguel Anjos was the Schöller Senior Fellow for 2020, EUROPT Fellow for 2017, Inria International Chair for 2016-2021 and is a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering
- Jacek Gondzio was the EUROPT 2019 Fellow
- Akshay Gupte was elected as the Vice-Chair (2020 & 2021) and Chair (2022 & 2023) of the INFORMS Computing Society
Staff awards
- Julian Hall was awarded the Mathematical Programming Computation best paper prize for 2018, for the paper "Parallelizing the dual revised simplex method", and the Computational Optimization and Applications best paper prize for 2015, for the paper "Novel update techniques for the revised simplex method"
- Lars Schewe was awarded the Howard Rosenbrock Prize in 2019, and the EURO Excellence in Practice Award (EEPA) in 2016
Student prizes
- 13th AIMMS-MOPTA Optimization Modeling Competition First Prize: PhD students Syu-Ning Johnn, Yiran Zhu and Andres Miniguano-Trujillo, supervised by Akshay Gupte
- 12th AIMMS-MOPTA Optimization Modeling Competition First Prize: PhD students Ivona Gjeroska, Paula Fermin Cueto and Albert Sola Vilalta, supervised by Miguel Anjos