About me
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 of The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK). His research focuses on the theory and applications of optimization in various areas of science and engineering, including computational geometry, machine learning, signal processing, and statistics. Dr. 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. Dr. So has received a number of research and teaching awards, including the 2024 SIAM Review SIGEST Award, the 2018 IEEE Signal Processing Society Best Paper Award, the 2015 IEEE Signal Processing Society Signal Processing Magazine Best Paper Award, the 2014 IEEE Communications Society Asia-Pacific Outstanding Paper Award, and the 2010 INFORMS Optimization Society Optimization Prize for Young Researchers, as well as the 2022 University Grants Committee Teaching Award (General Faculty Members Category), the 2022 University Education Award, and the 2013 CUHK Vice-Chancellor’s Exemplary Teaching Award.
