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Awards and Competitions

  • 2005
    • Dissertation Award of the German Operations Research Society
  • 2010
    • Google Research Award
  • 2014
    • Google Faculty Research Award
  • 2016
    • EURO Excellence in Practice Award
  • 2018
    • PACE Challenge, 1st 2nd 3rd place in Track B, C, A
  • 2019
    • Advisor of the winning team of the AIMMS-MOPTA Competition
  • 2020
    • Finalist of the INFORMS Innovative Applications in Analytics Award
  • 2022
    • Rank 2 (Fugaku) and Rank 10 (Lise) on the June 2022 SSSP Graph500 Benchmark
  • 2023
    • Certificate of Appreciation from the Institute of Mathematics for Industry of Kyushu University
    • Prof. Hilbert publication award of the faculty of Business and Economics of TU Dresden for
      “A Massively Parallel Interior-Point Solver for LPs with Generalized Arrowhead Structure, and Applications to Energy System Models”
  • 2024
    • PseudoBoolean Competition PB24, 1st place in PARTIAL-LIN, 2nd in OPT-LIN track
    • Outstanding Paper of the Year Award by the Journal of Mathematical Programming Computation for the article
      “Faster exact solution of sparse MaxCut and QUBO problems”
  • 2025
    • Finalist in the 2025 Forecasting Practice Competition of the International Institute of Forecasters
    • “Progress in mathematical programming solvers from 2001 to 2020”
      named the most cited article in the European Journal of Computational Optimization since 2022

Editorships

  • 2008 - 1018
    Mathematical Programming Computation (MPC)
    • editor general
  • 2010 - 2016
    Numerical Algebra, Control and Optimization
    • associate editor
  • 2016 - now
    Optimization Methods and Software (OMS)
    • associate editor
  • 2016
    Computers & Operations Research
    • special issue guest editor
  • 2016
    Journal of Global Optimization
    • special issue guest editor
  • 2017 - 2020
    Journal of Computational Mathematics (JCM)
    • associate editor
  • 2018 - now
    Mathematical Programming Series B (MPB)
    • member of editorial board
  • 2018
    Journal of the OR Society of China
    • special issue guest editor
  • 2021 - 2028
    Journal of the Chinese Operations Research Society
    • associate editor

Society memberships

  • SoAI - Society of Algorithmic Intelligence
  • MOS - The Mathematical Optimization Society
  • GOR - Gesellschaft für Operations Research
  • DMV - Deutsche Mathematiker Vereinigung

Organisational participation

  • MODAL - Mathematical Optimization and Data Analysis Laboratories
  • MATH+ - Berlin Mathematics Research Center
  • BMS - Berlin Mathematical School
  • ECMath - Einstein Center for Mathematics Berlin
  • BIMoS - Berlin International Graduate School in Model and Simulation based Research