Professor Mingyi Hong awarded 2025 Egon Balas Prize by INFORMS Optimization Society
ECE Professor and CSE DSI affiliate Mingyi Hong is the recipient of the 2025 Egon Balas Prize awarded by the INFORMS Optimization Society. The prize is awarded annually to an individual for their contributions in the area of optimization.
Optimization has a wide swath of applications ranging in fields from engineering, physical sciences, and machine learning to social sciences, business, economics, and finance. It is used by both industry and academia to address quantitative problems and to aid in the selection of the best solution among alternative options. Hong, who is an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Minnesota, studies optimization and its various applications across domains such as signal processing, wireless communication, machine learning, and lately AI and foundation models. In 2023 he was honored by the IEEE Signal Processing Society (SPS) with the Pierre-Simon Laplace Early Career Technical Achievement Awardfor his contributions to non-convex, distributed and learning-based optimization for signal processing. Hong is a Fellow of the IEEE.
INFORMS is the leading international association for professionals in operations research, analytics, economics, behavioral science, statistics, artificial intelligence, data science, and other related fields.
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