{"59977":{"#nid":"59977","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Arkadi Nemirovski Joins ISyE Faculty","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\n\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.isye.gatech.edu\/faculty-staff\/profile.php?entry=an63\u0022\u003EProfessor\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n    Nemirovski\u003C\/a\u003E has made fundamental contributions in continuous optimization\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n  in the last thirty years that have significantly shaped the field. He developed\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n  (with D. Yudin) the theory of information-based complexity for convex optimization\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n  underlying the majority of modern results on efficient solvability of well-structured\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n  convex problems, which is described in their book \u0022Problem complexity\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n  and method efficiency in optimization\u0022 (1983). This work led to the development\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n  of the ellipsoid algorithm (with Yudin) and the polynomial-time solvability\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n  of linear programming (by L. Khachiyan), and Nemirovski was the co-recipient\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n  (together with Yudin and Khachiyan) of the Fulkerson Prize from the Mathematical\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n  Programming Society and the American Mathematical Society in 1982. In the 1980s\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n  and 1990s Nemirovski did ground-breaking work in the theory and algorithmic\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n  implementation of interior-point polynomial-time methods for convex optimization.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n  He developed (with Y. Nesterov) a general theory of polynomial-time interior-point\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n  methods that is described in their book \u0022Interior-point polynomial algorithms\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n  in convex programming\u0022 (1994). In recognition of his contributions to\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n  convex optimization, Nemirovski was awarded the Dantzig Prize from the Mathematical\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n  Programming Society and the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n  in 1991. He introduced and developed (with A. Ben-Tal) the theory of robust\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n  optimization as a way of dealing with data perturbations in convex optimization.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n  This, along with applications of convex optimization to quadratically constrained,\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n  semidefinite, and geometric optimization problems, is described in their book \u0022Lectures\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n  on modern convex optimization: analysis, algorithms; engineering applications\u0022 (2001).\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n  In recognition of his seminal and profound contributions to continuous optimization,\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n  Nemirovski was awarded the 2003 John von Neumann Theory Prize by the Institute\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n  for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (along with Michael Todd).\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n  He continues to make significant contributions in almost all aspects of continuous\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n  optimization: complexity, numerical methods, stochastic optimization, and non-parametric\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n  statistics.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EArkadi Nemirovski earned the Ph.D. in Mathematics (1974) from Moscow State\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n  University and the Doctor of Sciences in Mathematics (1990) from the Institute\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n  of Cybernetics of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences, Kiev. He is the only individual\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n  to have won all three of these prestigious prizes (Fulkerson, Dantzig, and\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n  von Neumann).\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27279","created_gmt":"2005-03-02 01:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:07:08","author":"Barbara Christopher","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2005-03-02T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2005-03-02T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cstrong\u003EBarbara Christopher\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIndustrial and Systems Engineering\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/contact\/index.html?id=bt3\u0022\u003EContact Barbara Christopher\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404.385.3102\u003C\/strong\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["bchristopher@isye.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}