Prof. Xuefeng Gao, Prof. Xuedong He and their jointly supervised PhD student Miss Mengying He won the Best Paper Award at the NeurIPS 2025 Workshop on Generative AI in Finance for their paper “Factor-Based Conditional Diffusion Model for Portfolio Optimization”
Professor Daniel Zhuoyu Long, along with Professor Zheng Cui (our PhD alumni) from Zhejiang University and Professor Lijian Lu from Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, won the Second Prize in the Best Paper Award at the 20th ICSSSM Conference (International Conference on Services Systems and Services Management), August 8-10, 2025.
The title of the paper is “The Power of Reactive Upgrades in Dynamic Resource Allocation with General Upgrading”.
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