{"669723":{"#nid":"669723","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Winners of this year\u0027s WLA Prize announced","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe winners of the 2\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.thewlaprize.org\u0022\u003E023 World Laureates Association Prize\u003C\/a\u003E were recently announced, and the Prize\u0026nbsp;in Computer Science or Mathematics was awarded to \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/math.gatech.edu\/people\/arkadi-nemirovski\u0022\u003EArkadi Nemirovski\u003C\/a\u003E, adjunct professor in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/math.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESchool of Mathematics\u003C\/a\u003E, and Professor Yurii Nesterov at Universit\u00e9 Catholique de Louvain \u0022for their seminal work in convex optimization theory, including self-concordant function and interior-point methods, a complexity theory of optimization, accelerated gradient methods, and robust optimization methodological advances.\u0022\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.isye.gatech.edu\/users\/arkadi-nemirovski\u0022\u003E Nemirovski\u003C\/a\u003E is also Professor and John P. Hunter Chair in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.isye.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EH. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026nbsp;(This story was also covered in\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.science.org\/content\/resource\/wla-prize-global-tribute-scientific-excellence\u0022\u003EScience\u003C\/a\u003E,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/technode.global\/prnasia\/2023-world-laureates-association-prize-winners-awarded-in-shanghai-2\/\u0022\u003ETechnode Global\u003C\/a\u003E,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/news\/2023-world-laureates-association-prize-014100796.html\u0022\u003EYahoo! Finance\u003C\/a\u003E,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.chinadaily.com.cn\/a\/202311\/09\/WS654c38b4a31090682a5ed432.html\u0022\u003EChina Daily\u003C\/a\u003E,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.ecns.cn\/news\/sci-tech\/2023-11-07\/detail-ihcutfqs4216878.shtml\u0022\u003Eecns.cn\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;and \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.prnewswire.com\/news-releases\/2023-world-laureates-association-prize-winners-awarded-in-shanghai-301979321.html\u0022\u003ECision\u003C\/a\u003E.)\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe winners of the 2\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.thewlaprize.org\u0022\u003E023 World Laureates Association Prize\u003C\/a\u003E were recently announced, and the Prize\u0026nbsp;in Computer Science or Mathematics was awarded to \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/math.gatech.edu\/people\/arkadi-nemirovski\u0022\u003EArkadi Nemirovski\u003C\/a\u003E, adjunct professor in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/math.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESchool of Mathematics\u003C\/a\u003E, and Professor Yurii Nesterov at Universit\u00e9 Catholique de Louvain \u0022for their seminal work in convex optimization theory, including self-concordant function and interior-point methods, a complexity theory of optimization, accelerated gradient methods, and robust optimization methodological advances.\u0022\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.isye.gatech.edu\/users\/arkadi-nemirovski\u0022\u003E Nemirovski\u003C\/a\u003E is also Professor and John P. Hunter Chair in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.isye.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EH. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering\u003C\/a\u003E. (This story was also covered in\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.science.org\/content\/resource\/wla-prize-global-tribute-scientific-excellence\u0022\u003EScience\u003C\/a\u003E,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/technode.global\/prnasia\/2023-world-laureates-association-prize-winners-awarded-in-shanghai-2\/\u0022\u003ETechnode Global\u003C\/a\u003E,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/news\/2023-world-laureates-association-prize-014100796.html\u0022\u003EYahoo! Finance\u003C\/a\u003E,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.chinadaily.com.cn\/a\/202311\/09\/WS654c38b4a31090682a5ed432.html\u0022\u003EChina Daily\u003C\/a\u003E,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.ecns.cn\/news\/sci-tech\/2023-11-07\/detail-ihcutfqs4216878.shtml\u0022\u003Eecns.cn\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;and \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.prnewswire.com\/news-releases\/2023-world-laureates-association-prize-winners-awarded-in-shanghai-301979321.html\u0022\u003ECision\u003C\/a\u003E.)\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"34434","created_gmt":"2023-09-18 14:42:47","changed_gmt":"2023-12-07 21:19:22","author":"Renay San Miguel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"Shine","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.shine.cn\/news\/metro\/2309146541\/","dateline":{"date":"2023-09-14T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2023-09-14T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"1279","name":"School of Mathematics"}],"categories":[{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"168854","name":"School of Mathematics"},{"id":"8342","name":"Arkadi Nemirovski"},{"id":"69451","name":"College of Engineering; H. 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