Scientific Computing Seminar

Yinyu Ye is Professor of Management Science and Engineering and, by courtesy, Electrical Engineering and the Director of the MS&E Industrial Affiliates Program at Stanford's School of Engineering. He holds a Ph.D. in Engineering Economic Systems and Operations Research from Stanford University. Prior to coming to Stanford in 2002, Ye served for fourteen years in the Management Science Department of the University of Iowa as the Henry Tippie Research Professor. He has been or was on the editorial board of Management Science, Operations Research, Mathematics of Operations Research, SIAM J Optimization; and the area editor of Optimization & Engineering. He was the recipient numerous international and national awards, fellowships and research grants, a semi-plenary speaker and member of the International Advisory Committee of the International Symposium on Mathematical Programming, the Section Officer (Linear Programming) of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences, the co-organizer of the 1999 DIMACS Princeton workshop on discrete optimization, and the Distinguished Speaker in High Performance Computation for Engineered Systems of MIT. He was also selected as a highly cited mathematical researcher on http://www.ISIhighlycited.com. Ye teaches courses on Optimization, Network and Integer Programming, Semidefinite Programming, etc. He has written extensively on Interior-Point Methods, Approximation Algorithms, Conic Optimization, and their applications. Ye is currently working on Markov Decision Algorithm, Computational Game Theory and Graph Localization. He has served as a consultant to a variety of industries.