HUST Alumnus Ye Yinyu Awarded the Highest Prizein Operations Research and the Management Sciences

On Oct 12th, Dr. Ye Yinyu, an outstanding alumnus of HUST and the tenured professor of Stanford University, was granted the John von Neumann Theory Prize in the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences INFORMS Annual Meeting held in San Diego, California, US. Ye is said to be the first Chinese to win this prize.

Established in 1975, the John von Neumann Theory Prize is awarded annually to an individual or a body of work who has made fundamental, sustained contributions to theory in operations research and the management sciences. The first recipient of the prize was George Dantzig, a preeminent operation research expert who is honored as "the father of linear programming". Amongst all the recipients are many Nobel Economics Prize winners and founders of computing science and Cybernetics.

Ye Yinyu graduated from the Department of Automatic Control, HUST in 1982 and was conferred doctorate degree of operational research by Stanford University before taking a teaching position in University of Iowa. In 2002, he returned to Stanford and was offered the tenured professorship. In May 2006, Ye was granted honorary professorship from HUST.

He is one of the founders of the interior point algorithm theory in linear programming, and has made significant contributions in areas such as mathematical programming, operational research and management sciences, etc. As one of the top 250 scholars whose researching findings are most frequently quoted, Ye is acknowledged universally with his outstanding academic success.