Outstanding Young Researcher Award 2019
Xi Chen, Ph.D., New York University, New York, NY
For his impact on bridging between machine learning, statistics, and optimization, in particular, his novel contributions to statistical inference based on stochastic optimization, distributed data inference, sequential learning, and their applications to revenue management, and crowdsourcing.
Xiaohui Chen, Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL