Yurii Nesterov#
| Membership Number: | 5696 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | MATHEMATICS |
| Affiliated section(s): | PHYSICS & ENGINEERING SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2021 |
| Main Country of Residence: | BELGIUM |
| Homepage(s): | http://uclouvain.be/fr/repertoires/yurii.nesterov/ |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-0542-8757 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2021, October - present Professor Emeritus - CORE and EPL/INMA/OPT, Université Catholique de Louvain
- 2003 - 2021, September Full Professor – CORE and EPL/INMA/OPT, Université Catholique de Louvain
- 2000 - 2003 Professor – Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), Université Catholique de Louvain
- 1993 - 2000 Visiting Professor – Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), Université Catholique de Louvain
- 1992 - 1993 Visiting Professor – Geneva University, Department CES COMIN
- 1987 - 2000 Senior Research Associate (on leave from 1992) Central Economic & Mathematical Institute of the Russian Acad.Sci., Moscow
- 1985 - 1987 Research Associate
- 1977 - 1985 Junior Research Associate
Fields of Scholarship
- Differentiation techniques for nonsmooth functions
- Interior-point methods
- Interactive software packages
- Numerical methods in nonlinear programming
- Approximation of NP-hard problems
- Fluid Setworks: Convex models and numerical schemes for designing the fluid networks
- Polynomial time methods for convex programming
- Optimization theory
- Automatic differentiation
- Software for IBM-compatible personal computers
- Transportation sciences
- Optimal methods for convex programming
Honours and Awards
- August 2000 Dantzig Prize, a joint award from the Mathematical Programming Society and SIAM
- December 2000 Hooker Distinguished Visiting Professor, McMaster University, Canada
- 2009 John von Neumann Theory Prize of INFORMS
- 2009 Charles Broyden Prize for the best paper published in 2008 in Optimization Methods and Software
- 2010 EUROPT Fellow
- 2011 - 2012Honorable Francqui Chair (Liège University).
- 2013 Honorable Simon Stevin Lecture on Optimization in Engineering, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
- 2014 SIAM Outstanding paper award
- 2016 Euro Gold Medal (awarded by The Association of European Research Societies).
- 2018 - 2023 ERC Advanced Grant
- 2019 Honorable Hotelling Lecture (North Carolina University)
