Professor John Duchi has been award the inaugural SIAM Activity Group on Optimization Early Career Prize (SIAG/OPT Early Career Prize). The prize was established in 2018 and is awarded every three years to an outstanding early career researcher in the field of optimization for distinguished contributions to the field in the six calendar years prior to the award year.

John Duchi’s citation reads, "The selection committee wishes to recognize you for your deep and important contributions to convex, nonconvex, and stochastic optimization as well as to the statistical foundations of optimization methods for data science.”

The SIAG/OPT Early Career Prize is awarded every three years to an outstanding early career researcher in the field of optimization for distinguished contributions to the field in the six calendar years prior to the award year. The award recognizes an individual who has made outstanding, influential, and potentially long-lasting contributions to the field of optimization within six years of receiving the PhD or equivalent degree as of January 1 of the award year. The contributions for which the award is given must be publicly available and may belong to any aspect of optimization in its broadest sense. The contributions may include a paper or papers published in English in peer-reviewed journals or conference proceedings, or high quality freely available open source software.

John’s research areas span statistical learning, optimization, information theory, and computation. Please join us in acknowledging John for this special achievement.

Announcement from SIAM.org, "SIAM Activity Group on Optimization Early Career Prize"