Prof. Wai Hoi To‘s PhD student, Chenyue Zhang, has received the IEEE ICASSP 2025 Best Student Paper award (5 out of ~6900 submissions) for her paper on “Network Games Induced Prior for Graph Topology Learning”. The paper is co-authored with Prof. Anthony So and his his PhD student, Shangyuan Liu.
Professor Anthony Man-Cho So, together with Professor Krishnakumar Balasubramanian, Dr. Shixiang Chen (former SEEM PhD student), Dr. Jiaxiang Li, Professor Shiqian Ma (former SEEM academic staff), and Professor Tong Zhang, received the 2024 INFORMS Computing Society (ICS) Prize at the 2024 INFORMS Annual Meeting for their “path-breaking work in Riemannian Optimization”. The detailed citation can be found at https://connect.informs.org/computing/awards/ics-prize/ics-prize-2022-2026
The ICS Prize is an annual award for the best English language paper or group of related papers dealing with the Operations Research/Computer Science interface.
Photo 2: Awardees at the Award Ceremony (from L to R): Krishnakumar Balasubramanian, Anthony Man-Cho So, Shiqian Ma, Jiaxiang LiPhoto 3: Photo with former/current students (from L to R): Zirui Zhou, Jiajin Li, Anthony Man-Cho So, Linglingzhi Zhu, Taoli Zheng
Professor Daniel Zhuoyu Long, along with our 4th year PhD student Yu Sun, our recent PhD graduate Bin Hu, and their collaborator, Professor Qingwei Jin from Zhejiang University, won the Second Prize in the Best Paper Award at the 16th CSAMSE Conference (International Annual Conference of the Chinese Scholars Association for Management Science and Engineering), July 13-July 15, 2024.
The title of the paper is “Distributionally Robust Discrete Choice Model and Assortment Optimization”.
Graduation year: 2023 Current Status: Technology Associate at Morgan Stanley
My major is Financial Technology, which is under the department of SEEM. The programme covered a broad variety of topics, from financial mathematics to information systems. It offered me ample exposure in both finance and technology, as well as the combination of these two subjects, that is, applying the latest technology in the financial world. The training in this programme has also strengthened my analytic skills and attention to details. These knowledge and skills helped me secure a job in one of the top-tier investment banks in the world, Morgan Stanley. My current role is a technology associate under the Institutional Securities Technology Department, where I am responsible for developing and optimizing the Fixed Income Risk Calculation System in the firm.
If I had a second chance, I would still choose this programme to study in my university life. It has taught me a lot and paved my professional career path.