Shayan Oveis Gharan has trouble staying still — so it’s fitting that he’s known for his work on the traveling salesperson problem, a notoriously difficult computational problem about roaming from place to place. And now he’s won the IMU Abacus Medal.
Shayan Oveis Gharan Wins 2026 IMU Abacus Medal | Quanta MagazineShayan Oveis Gharan has won the Abacus Medal for using tools from across mathematics to boost the power of algorithms.www.quantamagazine.org