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Scientist and Director
Alibaba DAMO Academy (USA)
Wotao Yin is an applied mathematician, scientist, and engineer currently serving as the director of the Decision Intelligence Lab at the Alibaba DAMO Academy, following a tenure as a Professor of Mathematics at UCLA. He received his Ph.D. in OR from Columbia University and is widely recognized for his research in computational optimization, particularly large-scale and distributed algorithms, operator splitting methods, and their applications in image processing and machine learning. His contributions to the field have been honored with numerous prestigious awards, including the Morningside Gold Medal, the NSF CAREER Award, the Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship, and the INFORMS Egon Balas Prize.