Professor Jianhua Huang Won the 2022 INFORMS Impact Prize
Professor Jianhua Huang from the School of Data Science at CUHK-Shenzhen was awarded the 2022 INFORMS Impact Prize in November 2022 in recognition of his important influence on operations research practice. Impact Prize, handed out every other year, is a lifetime achievement award in operations research. Past winners are all top experts and scholars in this field
About INFORMS Impact Prize
Impact Prize, handed out every other year, is a lifetime achievement award in operations research. The award aims to recognize the pervasive influence of operations research in practice, which is judged on how the research is widely used in practice and how relevant it is to operations research. Previous winners are all top experts and scholars in this field, including professors from Cornell University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology; the founding professor of computer science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; famous American researchers in operations research; senior software engineer from Google, etc. Professor Guillermo Gallego and Professor Jianhua Huang, all from SDS of CUHK-Shenzhen, won this award in 2016 and 2022 respectively.
Source：INFORMS website
https://www.informs.org/Recognizing-Excellence/INFORMS-Prizes/Impact-Prize
About INFORMS
Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) is universally recognized as the most influential society in operations research, management science and business analysis. It is also the most authoritative and largest international association of operations research and analysis professionals. It is committed to increasing the public's awareness, interest, and understanding of the benefits of operations research (OR) and analysis, and provides plans and services to support operations research professionals' lifelong learning and networking. INFORMS has pooled top scholars in operations research and management science, including George Dantzig, the father of linear programming, and Harry M. Markowitz and John Nash, both of whom are Nobel laureates. There are also many Chinese scholars.
Source：INFORMS website、Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institute_for_Operations_Research_and_the_Management_Sciences
Award-winning Professor's Profile
Jianhua Huang
Dr. Huang received his Ph.D. in Statistics (1997) from University of California at Berkeley. He worked in the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania and in Texas A&M University before joining The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen. At Texas A&M University, he has served as Acting Associate Dean for Graduate Studies of College of Science, Interim Department Head of Department of Statistics, and Associate Director for Education of Texas A&M Institute of Data Science. He has supervised more than 20 Ph.D. students. He has published over 100 refereed papers and is among the top 2% most cited statisticians around the world. His research has been funded by National Science Foundation of the United States. He is a Fellow of American Statistical Association and a Fellow of Institute of Mathematical Statistics, and an Elected Member of International Statistical Institute. He has served on the editorial board for Journal of American Statistical Association, STAT (The ISI's Journal for the Rapid Dissemination of Statistics Research), Journal of Multivariate Analysis, and Chemometrics and Intelligent Laboratory Systems.
