Shuvomoy Das Gupta, who will join the computational applied mathematics and operations research faculty at Rice next year as an assistant professor, has won the 2024 INFORMS Computing Society Student Paper Award.
The award is given annually by the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences to “the best paper at the interface of computing and operations research by a student author.”
The award recognizes the paper titled “Branch-and-Bound Performance Estimation Programming: A Unified Methodology for Constructing Optimal Optimization Methods,” published this year in the journal Mathematical Programming. Das Gupta’s co-authors are Professor Bart P.G. Van Parys (CWI Amsterdam) and Professor Ernest K. Ryu (University of California, Los Angeles).
Das Gupta earned his Ph.D. this year in operations research from MIT and currently serves as a postdoctoral research scientist in the Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research at Columbia University. His research interests include developing methodologies for constructing the provably fastest algorithms for optimization problems arising in machine learning, business analytics and data science. He will join the Rice faculty on July 1, 2025.