Brief CV of Arkadi Nemirovski

Personal data:

· Born March 14, 1947, in Moscow; emigrated to Israel in 1993; moved to USA in 2005

· Married, one son

Education:

· M.Sc. (‘70) and Ph.D. (‘73) degrees in Math. from Moscow State University

http://www.genealogy.ams.org/html/id.phtml?id=58609

· Soviet degree of Doctor of Physical & Mathematical Sciences (‘90) from Supreme

Attestation Board at the USSR Council of Ministers

Academic appointments since ‘93:

· (2005 -- ) John Hunter Chair and Professor, School of Industrial and Systems

Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology

· (1993 - 2006) Full Professor, Faculty of Industrial Engineering and Management,

Technion – Israel Institute of Technology (started ‘93; tenured ‘95; chaired ‘99)

· visiting positions:

¨ visiting professor, Technical University of Delft, Faculty of Technical

Mathematics, March - August ‘98

¨ Stieltjes Visiting Professorship, Stieltjes Institute, The Netherlands,

August - September ‘01

¨ Adjunct Visiting Professorship, Department of Discrete and Combinatorial

Optimization, Faculty of Mathematics, University of Waterloo, ‘00-’04

¨ visiting professor, School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Georgia

Institute of Technology, August ‘03 -- January ‘05

Research areas:

· (major) Optimization Theory and Algorithms, with emphasis on

¨ investigating complexity and developing efficient algorithms for

nonlinear convex programs

¨ optimization under uncertainty

¨ applications of Convex Optimization in Engineering

· (minor) Nonparametric Statistics

Publications (personal and co-authored): 7 monographs, 150 papers in

referred journals, over 20 papers and book chapters in proceedings and

collections http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=3QxoymwAAAAJ http://www.researcherid.com/rid/A-8375-2009

https://mathscinet.ams.org/mathscinet/MRAuthorID/194108

Students supervision: 9 Ph.D. & 5 M.Sc. completed

Professional awards:

· ‘82 - Fulkerson Prize of the Mathematical Programming Society and

AMS (with L. Khachiyan and D. Yudin) [for inventing the Ellipsoid

method and thus contributing to the proof of polynomial time

solvability of Linear Programming]

http://www.mathprog.org/prz/fulkerson.htm#winners

· ‘91 - Dantzig Prize of the Mathematical Programming Society and SIAM

(with M. Grötschel) [for contributions to Mathematical Programming,

including investigating limits of performance of convex optimization

methods and developing novel efficient algorithms]

http://www.mathprog.org/prz/dantzig.htm#winners

· ‘03 - John von Neumann Theory Prize of INFORMS (with M. Todd)

[for contributions to Mathematical Programming, including those to

the general theory of polynomial time interior point methods and

to discovery and development of Robust Optimization]

https://www.informs.org/Recognizing-Excellence/Award-Recipients/Arkadi-Nemirovski

· ‘19 - Norbert Wiener Prize in Applied Mathematics of AMS and SIAM (with M. Berger)

https://www.ams.org/news?news_id=4727

· ‘23 - 2023 World Laureates Association Prize in Computer Science or Mathematics (with Yu. Nesterov)

https://www.thewlaprize.org/PressRoom/News/2023/11/06/190.html

· ‘24 - 2024 INFORMS Frederick W. Lanchester Prize (with A. Juditsky)

https://www.informs.org/Recognizing-Excellence/INFORMS-Prizes/Frederick-W.-Lanchester-Prize

Other honors:

· ‘92 - Einstein Visiting Fellowship, Israel Academy of Sciences

· ‘94-’95 - Gastello Fellowship

· ‘98 - Taub prize for excellence in research, Technion

· ‘98 - Lecturer at XXVII Saint-Flour Summer School on Probability and

Statistics

· ‘01 - Stieltjes Lecture, Stieltjes Institute, the Netherlands

· ‘01 - Best Paper Award (Theory) at 5th International Conference on

Optimization Techniques and Applications (joint with A. Ben-Tal

and C. Roos)

· ‘03 - Nieuwland Lecturer, University of Notre Dame

· ‘03 - Medallion Lecturer of IMS, Joint Statistical Meeting

· ‘03 - J. Levi Prize of Israeli OR Society (joint with A. Ben-Tal,

B. Golany and J.-Ph. Vial)

· ‘04 - MIT Distinguished Lecturer, MIT

· ‘06 - Plenary speaker at ICM 2006

· '06 - Plenary speaker at ISMP 2006

· ‘06 – ‘16 Distinguished Visiting Professor, Technion

· ‘07 - Adjunct Professor of Mathematics, School of Mathematics, GaTech

· ‘09 - Honorary Degree of Doctor of Mathematics from University of Waterloo

· ‘17 - Member of National Academy of Engineering National Academy of Engineering

· ‘18 - Fellow of American Academy of Arts and Sciences American Academy of Arts and Sciences

· ‘20 - Member of National Academy of Sciences National Academy of Sciences

· ‘18 - Le Cam Lecture, 50èmes Journées de Statistique de la SFdS, Paris-Saclay 50èmes Journées de Statistique de la SFdS