Lehigh ISE Timothy J. Wilmott Endowed Chair Professor and Chair Luis Nunes Vicente has been selected as a Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM). SIAM has over 14,000 individual members in all areas of industrial and applied math. The 26 newly selected Fellows will be recognized during the 2024 SIAM Annual Meeting in Spokane, Washington, USA, July 18-20.
The SIAM Fellows Program recognizes members of SIAM who have made outstanding contributions to fields served by the industrial and applied math community. According to his citation, Luis was selected for ground-breaking contributions to derivative-free and bilevel optimization, and exemplary leadership in editorial and organizational service to the SIAM community.
Luis Nunes Vicente is a well-known researcher in the field of continuous optimization and its applications to industrial engineering and operations research. He obtained his PhD from Rice University in 1996 under a Fulbright scholarship. In 2015, he was awarded the Lagrange Prize of MOS-SIAM. He held visiting positions at IBM Research, NYU, Rice, CERFACS, and Rome Sapienza. He has served on numerous editorial boards, including SIAM Journal on Optimization and Mathematical Programming. Recently, he was elected chair of the SIAM Activity Group on Optimization for 2023-2025 and chair of ACORD in 2023 (the Association of Chairs of OR Departments at INFORMS). He has been chairing the Lehigh ISE Department since August 2018.
“It is a great honor to be elected a Fellow of SIAM. I have always had tremendous admiration for SIAM, from all the work done to promote the field and the profession to all its journals, conferences, and awards. I never thought I would reach this level, and my takeaway is to continue to work hard in my research and serve others in the community.” says Luis Nunes Vicente.