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KAUST professor Peter Richtárik receives Charles Broyden Prize for second consecutive year

2 min read · Wed, Jan 21 2026

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The prize honors work advancing communication-efficient optimization for large-scale distributed learning systems.

Zhize Li

Research Scientist, Computer Science

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Zhize Li is a Research Scientist working with Professor Peter Richtarik in his research group at the Visual Computing Center (VCC) at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST). Education and Early Career Zhize Li received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Institute for Interdisciplinary Information Sciences of Tsinghua University in 2019 under the supervision of Prof. Jian Li. On the career side, before joining KAUST, he was a visiting scholar at the Computer Science Department of Duke University (Hosted by Prof. Rong Ge) and a visiting scholar at the Industrial and

Xun Qian

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Applied Mathematics and Computational Science

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Xun Qian is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Visual Computing Center (VCC), King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), working with Professor Peter Richtárik in his research group. Education and Early Career Dr. Qian obtained his B.Sc. degree in Mathematics from Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China, in 2013. In 2017, he has obtained a Ph.D. degree in Mathematics from Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU), Hong Kong. Research Interest Xun Qian is interested in stochastic methods and algorithms, machine learning and interior-point methods. Selected