Professor recognized with prestigious award for mathematical excellence
Zilin Jiang, an assistant professor in the School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence, part of the Fulton Schools, and a team of Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers were awarded the prestigious Delbert Ray Fulkerson Prize. The award, presented at the recent International Symposium on Mathematical Programming, recognizes outstanding research papers in discrete mathematics, including graph theory, networks, mathematical programming, applied combinatorics and applications of discrete mathematics to computer science and related subjects. The paper was published in the Annals of Mathematics. Jiang also holds a joint faculty position in ASU’s School of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences,