{"49954":{"#nid":"49954","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Lan Receives INFORMS Computing Society Paper Prize","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EGuanghui Lan\u003C\/strong\u003E, fifth year PhD student at Georgia Tech\u0027s H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, was awarded the 2008 INFORMS Computing Society Student Paper Prize for his paper \u0022Efficient methods for stochastic composite optimization.\u0022  The INFORMS Computing Society (ICS) Student Paper Award is given annually to the best paper on computing and operations research by a student author, as judged by a panel of the ICS.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ELan\u0027s paper considers an important class of convex programming problems whose objective function, given by the summation of a smooth and non-smooth component, is contaminated by stochastic noise. His major contribution is to introduce the first theoretically optimal method for solving this class of problems and demonstrate its significant advantages over the existing algorithms.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe ICS Student Paper Prize was presented at the 2008 INFORMS Annual Meeting in October.  Lan, who is advised by Professors \u003Cstrong\u003EArkadi Nemirovksi\u003C\/strong\u003E, \u003Cstrong\u003ERenato Monteiro\u003C\/strong\u003E, and \u003Cstrong\u003EAlex Shaprio\u003C\/strong\u003E, made a presentation in a special ICS Prize session at the meeting.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Award Committee consisted of David Morton (Chair), University of Texas at Austin, Alper Atamturk, University of California, Berkeley, and Nick Sahinidis, Carnegie Mellon University. The ICS Student Paper Award is sponsored by the Mica Foundation of Denmark and is accompanied by a plaque and a $500 honorarium.  \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThis is the second year in a row that an ISyE PhD student has placed in this prize.  In 2007, \u003Cstrong\u003ERicha Agarwal\u003C\/strong\u003E, advised by Professor \u003Cstrong\u003EOzlem Ergun\u003C\/strong\u003E, was a runner-up in the Computing Society Student Paper Competition.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ELan also received second place in the INFORMS George Nicholson student paper competition for his paper. The 2008 Nicholson Prize Committee is chaired by Georgia Perakis from MIT. The committee members are: John Birge (University of Chicago), Rene A. Caldentey (New York University), Michael C. Ferris (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Retsef Levi (MIT), Andrew Lim (Berkeley), Mahesh Nagarajan (UBC), Melvyn Sim (National University of Singapore), Amy Ward (USC), Jiawei Zhang (New York U.), Max Shen (Berkeley).\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"Guanghui Lan, fifth year PhD student at Georgia Tech\u0027s H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, was awarded the 2008 INFORMS Computing Society Student Paper Prize for his paper \u0022Efficient methods for stochastic composite optimization.\u0022","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Lan Receives INFORMS Computing Society Paper Prize"}],"uid":"27279","created_gmt":"2008-08-20 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:03:56","author":"Barbara Christopher","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2008-10-29T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2008-10-29T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"49955":{"id":"49955","type":"image","title":"Guanghui Lan accepts the 2008 INFORMS Computing So","body":null,"created":"1449175360","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 20:42:40","changed":"1475894449","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:40:49","alt":"Guanghui Lan accepts the 2008 INFORMS Computing So","file":{"fid":"126943","name":"tjq86346.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/tjq86346_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/tjq86346_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":66352,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/tjq86346_0.jpg?itok=HqSmcvOy"}}},"media_ids":["49955"],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"7951","name":"Guanghui Lan"},{"id":"7952","name":"INFORMS Awards"},{"id":"426","name":"isye"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cstrong\u003EBarbara Christopher\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIndustrial and Systems Engineering\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/contact\/index.html?id=bt3\u0022\u003EContact Barbara Christopher\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404.385.3102\u003C\/strong\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["bchristopher@isye.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}