2022

Winners of the 2022 INFORMS Optimization Society Khachiyan Prize  

Daniel Bienstock (Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, Columbia University, USA)

For his fundamental methodological and computational contributions to optimization, with an emphasis on very large-scale, non-convex, and discrete optimization problems.

David Shmoys (School of Operations Research and Information Engineering, Cornell University, USA)

For his pioneering research in discrete optimization, with a focus on the design of provably good approximation algorithms, and for their extension to stochastic optimization.

Prize committee

Gerard Cornuejols (chair), Jorge Nocedal, Werner Romisch, and Laurence Wolsey