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Template:Luis Nunes Vicente Luis Nunes Vicente is an applied mathematician and optimizer, known for his research work in Continuous Optimization and particularly in Derivative-Free Optimization. He is the Timothy J. Wilmott ’80 Endowed Chair Professor and Department Chair of the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering of Lehigh University.
Education and Career
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.
From 1996 to 2018 he was a faculty member at the Department of Mathematics 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 IMA/University of Minnesota in 2002/2003, at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences/NYU 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, with Katya Scheinberg and Andrew R. Conn.
Recognition
Luis Nunes Vicente was awarded the Lagrange Prize 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”. The prize citation wrote “This monograph represents a significant contribution in understanding the formulation of surrogate models, the construction of derivative free optimization (DFO) algorithms, and their convergence properties. … A large number of key optimization studies have used these results substantively in both practical and conceptual ways. …”.
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.
External Links
Personal web page at Lehigh University
Personal web page at University of Coimbra