Our member, Krishna Balasubramanian (Stat), and our former members Shiqian Ma (Rice Univ.) and Jiaxiang Li (Univ. Minnesota) with their three more collaborators won the 2024 INFORMS Computing Society (ICS) Prize for their path-breaking work in Riemannian optimization that involves minimizing an objective function over a Riemannian manifold. 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.

This event was help on September 23/24, 2024 in the Physical and Data Sciences Building [PDSB] (formerly known as Physical Sciences and Engineering Library). Seventy people registered for this symposium. Three external speakers: Dustin Mixon (Ohio State Univ.); Gal Mishne (UCSD); Junwei Lu (Harvard) and four internal speakers: Thomas Strohmer (Math); Krishna Balasubramanian (Stat); Xin Liu (CS); Yubei Chen (ECE) gave excellent and stimulating talks on cutting-edge research in DS/AI.

Please join me to congratulate our own Jesús De Loera for receiving the prestigious T. Christine Stevens Award for Leadership Development! You can see the detailed information about this fantastic news by following the links below.

2024 T. Christine Stevens Award (maa.org)

Dear all,

Dear all,

A Message from Naoki Saito, Director of UCD4IDS

Dear UCD4IDS members,

Four UCD4IDS faculty members received the 2023 Graduate Program Advising and Mentoring Awards from the Office of Graduate Studies! Please join me to congratulate: Rishi Chaudhuri (Math/NPB); Jesus De Loera (Math); Prem Devanbu (CS); and Krishna Balasubramanian (Stat), for their excellence in mentoring our graduate students!

All the best,

Naoki Saito

Our own Xiaodong Li (Statistics) has been honored as a Chancellor's Fellow! See the details at: 5 Honored as Chancellor’s Fellows | UC Davis College of Letters and Science .

Please join me to congratulate Xiaodong!

All the best,

Naoki

Dear Colleagues and Graduate Students,

Our faculty member, Prem Devanbu (CS) recently received two honors. One is the prestigious Alexander von Humboldt Research Award and the other is the 2022 ICSE Most Influential Paper Award (with his collaborators).

Dear all,

UCD4IDS is co-organizing the 2022 ADVANCE Award Symposium together with CAMPOS and Feminist Research Institute as follows. I very strongly encourage you to join us for this wonderful event! Please consider giving your poster talks too!! Here is the link to the symposium website: 2022 ADVANCE Scholar Award Symposium | Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (ucdavis.edu)

All the best,

Naoki

Jesus De Loera (Math/GGAM) was elected Vice President of the American Mathematical Society (AMS). He has just started this role in Feb. 2022, and will serve for three years. Congratulations, Jesus! We really appreciate your dedication and service to our profession! See the list of the current AMS officers at AMS :: Officers of the American Mathematical Society.

Dear UCD4IDS members,

We have now our own GitHub site: https://github.com/UCD4IDS !!

Currently there are a handful of packages our members (Saito, Koeppe, and their groups) are listed there.

Please consider adding your software packages for public dissemination, which NSF would reapply appreciate.

If you have any further questions, please contact me.

Sincerely,

Naoki Saito

Dear all,

Please join me to congratulate a UCD4IDS faculty member, Prabir Burman (Statistics) for being elected as an IMS Fellow of Class 2021! For the details, please check: Institute of Mathematical Statistics | IMS names 2021 Fellows (imstat.org)

All the best,

Naoki