The INFORMS Computing Society (ICS) 2001 Prize for Research Excellence in the Interface Between Operations Research and Computer Science, awarded to the paper co-authored by R. Monteiro and Y. Zhang: ``A Unified Analysis for a Class of Path-Following Primal-Dual Interior-Point Algorithms for Semidefinite Programming'', Mathematical Programming 81 (1998) 281-299.
The first recipient (May, 2003) of the Rice University Presidential Award for Mentoring, a faculty award to recognize outstanding achievement in mentoring students.
The paper "Solving a class of semidefinite programs via nonlinear
programming" by Burer, Monteiro and Zhang (Math. Programming,
Vol.93, pp. 97-122, 2002) was determined in September 2003 by
ISI Essential Science Indicators as a "New Hot Paper"
- one of the most cited recent papers in the field of Mathematics.
See the website:
http://esi-topics.com/nhp/nhp-september2003.html.