The committee consisting of Bill Cook, Prasad Tetali and Eric Vigoda selected Daniel Dadush as the recipient of the 2012 ACO Outstanding Student Prize. The prize consists of a citation and a cash award. It was established thanks to a generous donation from the late Professor Emeritus Richard Duke.
The citation reads: "ACO Outstanding Student Prize is presented to Daniel Dadush for having had a tremendous influence on the ACO community in terms of scholarship and student leadership; for using recent mathematical results in asymptotic convex geometry to make significant contributions to classical optimization problems; and for routinely displaying the type of intellectual curiosity that an academic program can only dream to inspire in its students and faculty."
