Dr. Shayan Hundrieser, mathematician from the University of Göttingen has been honored with the prestigious Dissertation Award by the Probability and Statistics Group of the German Mathematical Society.
The award acknowledges outstanding research by promising young scientists in the field of stochastics. His dissertation, entitled “Statistical Optimal Transport and its Entropic Regularization: Compared and Contrasted,” was particularly commended by the jury for its significant contributions to the field of statistical optimal transport.
The prize, endowed with 1,000 euros, was awarded in March at this year’s German Mathematical Society conference in Dresden.
He is a researcher in the working group of MBExC member Prof. Dr. Axel Munk at the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Göttingen. In his dissertation, he developed mathematical foundations for the development of new methods of statistical optimal transport for the analysis of complex data. In future, such methods are to be used for improved medical diagnostics in imaging procedures, for example. “We are delighted that this award has gone to Göttingen for the first time in 30 years,” says Dean Prof. Dr. Anja Sturm.
Dr. Hundrieser will soon be continuing his research with a postdoctoral fellowship from the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina at Yale University in the USA and the University of Twente in the Netherlands.
The doctorate was funded by the DFG Cluster of Excellence “Multiscale Bioimaging”, the DFG Collaborative Research Center “Mathematics of Experimentation” and the Research Training Group “Structure Recognition in Complex Data”.
Link to the press release (in German)
Dr. Shayan Hundrieser at the award ceremony with the spokesperson of the German Mathematical Society Stochastics Division, Prof. Dr. Claudia Kirch. Photo: private
