Through a generous gift from the Van Hoesen family, the Industrial and Systems Engineering Department is pleased to announce Baoyu Zhou as the recipient of the seventh annual Van Hoesen Family Best Publication Award. Baoyu will receive a $1,000 monetary prize for his paper:

A. Berahas, F.E. Curtis, and B. Zhou, Limited-Memory BFGS with Displacement Aggregation. ISE Technical Report, 19T-001 Lehigh University, to appear in Mathematical Programming.

The Van Hoesen Family Best Publication competition was established in the ISE Department in 2015. This award inspires students to publish influential research, software tools, and applications.

Everett Van Hoesen graduated from Lehigh University in 1955. He was a Distinguished Military Graduate, attained membership in the engineering honor society Tau Beta Pi, and was honored with the ISE Distinguished Alumni Award in 2014.

The Selection Committee was formed by Professors Ted Ralphs (chair), Daniel P. Robinson, and Luis F. Zuluaga.

The ISE Department is grateful to the Van Hoesen family for their continued support of ISE and inspiring excellence in research.