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Prof. Anthony So

The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Prof. Anthony Man-Cho So is currently Dean of the Graduate School, Deputy Master of Morningside College, and Professor in the Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management. Prof. So has been a Fellow of IEEE since 2023 and an Outstanding Fellow of the Faculty of Engineering at CUHK since 2019. He currently serves on the editorial boards of Journal of Global Optimization, Mathematical Programming, Mathematics of Operations Research, Open Journal of Mathematical Optimization, Optimization Methods and Software, and SIAM Journal on Optimization. He has also served as the Lead Guest Editor of IEEE Signal Processing Magazine Special Issue on Non-Convex Optimization for Signal Processing and Machine Learning. Prof. So has received a number of research and teaching awards, including the 2016-17 CUHK Research Excellence Award, the 2010 CUHK Young Researcher Award, the 2022 University Grants Committee (UGC) Teaching Award (General Faculty Members Category), and the 2022 CUHK University Education Award.