Luis Nunes Vicente

Luis Nunes Vicente is an applied mathematician and optimizer who is known for his research work in Continuous Optimization and particularly in Derivative-Free Optimization. He is the Timothy J. Wilmott '80 Endowed Chair Professor[1] and Department Chair of the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering[2] of Lehigh University.

Luis Nunes Vicente
Born
Coimbra, Portugal
NationalityPortuguese
OccupationApplied mathematician
Known forContinuous Optimization and Derivative-Free Optimization
AwardsTucker Prize and Lagrange Prize
Academic background
Alma materRice University
ThesisTrust-Region Interior-Point Algorithms for a Class of Nonlinear Programming Problems (1996)
Doctoral advisorJohn Dennis
Academic work
Notable worksIntroduction to Derivative-Free Optimization

Education

Luis Nunes Vicente was born in Coimbra, Portugal. He obtained a B.S. in Mathematics and Operations Research at the University of Coimbra in 1990. He continued his studies at Rice University, USA, earning a Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics in 1996. His Ph.D. dissertation, titled Trust-Region Interior-Point Algorithms for a Class of Nonlinear Programming Problems, was supervised by John Dennis.

Career

From 1996 to 2018, Luis Nunes Vicente was a faculty member at the Department of Mathematics[3] of the University of Coimbra, Portugal, becoming full professor in 2009. He held several visiting positions, namely at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center and the University of Minnesota[4] in 2002-2003, at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University[5] and the Université Paul Verlaine of Metz in 2009-2010, and at Roma/Sapienza and Rice University in 2016-2017. He was visiting Chercheur Sénior of the Fondation de Coopération Sciences et Technologies pour l'Aéronautique et l'Espace at CERFACS and IPN Toulouse, during 2010-2015.

He has served on numerous editorial boards, including SIAM Journal on Optimization (2009-2017), EURO Journal on Computational Optimization, and Optimization Methods and Software (2010-2018). He was Editor-in-Chief of Portugaliae Mathematica during 2013-2018.

Book

Luis Nunes Vicente co-authored the book Introduction to Derivative-Free Optimization, MPS-SIAM Series on Optimization, SIAM, Philadelphia, 2009[6], with Katya Scheinberg and Andrew R. Conn.

Recognition

Luis Nunes Vicente was awarded the Lagrange Prize[7] of SIAM (Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics) and MOS (Mathematical Optimization Society) for the co-authorship of the book Introduction to Derivative-Free Optimization.[8]

With his Ph.D. dissertation, he received the Ralph Budd Thesis Award from Rice University in 1996 and was one of the three finalists of the 94-96 A. W. Tucker Prize of MOS. He is also the winner of the Lagrange Award.

References
  1. "Luis Nunes Vicente | P.C. Rossin College of Engineering & Applied Science".
  2. Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
  3. Department of Mathematics
  4. IMA/University of Minnesota
  5. Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences/NYU
  6. Conn, Andrew R.; Scheinberg, Katya; Vicente, Luis N. (2009). Introduction to Derivative-Free Optimization. doi:10.1137/1.9780898718768. ISBN 978-0-89871-668-9.
  7. "Lagrange Prize in Continuous Optimization".
  8. "Mathematical Optimization Society".
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