Professor Mengdi Wang receives NSF CAREER Award

Jan. 27, 2017

On February 1, 2017 Assistant Professor Mengdi Wang received the NSF Career Award for her project titled “Stochastic Nested Composition Optimization Problems”. The theoretical result and new methodology is expected to advance the theory of stochastic optimization as well as to provide algorithmic solutions to a variety of emerging applications. The CAREER Award, the most prestigious award from the NSF in support of junior faculty, is given to those who effectively integrate education and research within the context of the mission of their organizations.