SIAM Fellow, Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), INFORMS Optimization Society Egon Balas Prize; editorial responsibilities for journals such as Mathematical Programming Computation, INFORMS Journal on Computing, etc.; led and developed several open-source software projects including BAND, parMOO, etc.
Research Experience
Director of the Applied Mathematics and Computational Research Division at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab and Senior Fellow in the IEMS at Northwestern University; previously a Computational Mathematician at Argonne National Laboratory (2010-2022) and a Fellow in the Computation Institute at the University of Chicago (2010-2016).
Education
PhD: Operations Research, Cornell University, January 2009; MS: Applied Mathematics, University of Colorado, Boulder, May 2003.
Background
Research interests include numerical optimization and automated learning algorithms, particularly at interfaces involving advanced computer simulations, complex data, and physical experiments. Currently serves as the Director of the Applied Mathematics and Computational Research Division at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab and as a Senior Fellow in the IEMS at Northwestern University.
Miscellany
Supported by organizations such as DOE ASCR, DOE BES, DOE HEP, NSF CISE/OAC, NSF MPS/DMS; has mentored several postdoctoral researchers who are now employed at various research institutions and universities.