Assistant Professor of Computer Sciences Ben Recht can add another award to his CV.
Recht and Stanford mathematics and statistics professor Emmanuel Candes were awarded the Lagrange Prize in Continuous Optimization at the International Symposium on Mathematical Programming on Aug. 19 in Berlin. Recht and Candes were honored for their paper "Exact Matrix Completion via Convex Optimization," which was published in Foundations of Computational Mathematics in 2009.
The prize is awarded jointly by the Mathematical Optimization Society and the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics every three years to an outstanding paper in continuous optimization from the preceding six years.
Recht was also one of two University of Wisconsin-Madison faculty members to be awarded a prestigious Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship in February.