Amir Beck (School of Mathematical Sciences, Tel-Aviv University, Israel) received his PhD degree in 2003 from Tel Aviv University. He held postdoctoral and then faculty positions at Technion - Israel Institute of Technology until 2015, and since 2015 he is a full professor in the School of Mathematical Sciences in Tel Aviv University. He has served on editorial boards of Operations Research and SIAM Journal on Optimization, is currently an associate editor for Mathematics of Operations Research and Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications and is co- editor of Mathematical Programming.
Amir Beck is an internationally recognized leader in first-order methods for continuous optimization. He has made influential and diverse contributions to the field that include a novel view of the mirror descent method, the FISTA algorithm (which received more than 11000 citations so far) and breakthrough results on coordinate descent. He has also written a monograph on first-order methods and a textbook on theory, algorithms, and applications of nonlinear optimization. Professor Beck has made further important contributions to other areas of continuous optimization, including nonconvex optimization and applications to signal processing.
Prize committee
Katya Scheinberg (chair), Andrea Lodi, David Morton, Nick Sahinidis