Zhouwang Yang is a Professor in the School of Mathematical Sciences at University of Science and Technology of China (USTC). He received his Bachelor degree, Master degree and PhD degree in Mathematics from USTC in 1997, 2000 and 2005, respectively. He worked at Seoul National University as a postdoctoral researcher from December 2006 to November 2007. He was a visiting scholar in School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISyE) at Georgia Institute of Technology during August 2010 - August 2011. He has been working on geometric modeling and processing; optimization methods and their applications in sparse recovery. He also has a particular interest in the integration of optimization, machine learning and statistics for solving big data problems.

Honors and Awards: the Funding for New Century Excellent Talents in University (2011); the "Kun-Xue-Shou-Wang" Award for Excellence in Teaching (2012); the Operations Research & Application Award by Operations Research Society of China in 2016; the Youth Innovation Award by China Society for Computational Mathematics in 2017.