Yinyu Ye

Yinyu Ye, the 2009 John von Neumann Theory Prize recipient and formally the K.T. Li Professor of Stanford University, is now the Visiting Professor of Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai Institute of Mathematical and Interdisciplinary Sciences, Chinese University of Hong Kong at Shenzhen and Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. His current research topics include Continuous and Discrete Optimization, Data Science and Applications, Numerical Algorithm Design and Analyses, Algorithmic Game/Market Equilibrium, Operations Research and Management Science etc.. He was one of the pioneers on Interior-Point Methods, Conic Linear Programming, Distributionally Robust Optimization, Online Linear Programming and Learning, Algorithm Analyses for Reinforcement Learning\Markov Decision Process, nonconvex optimization, and etc. He and his students have received numerous scientific awards, himself including the 2006 INFORMS Farkas Prize (Inaugural Recipient) for fundamental contributions to optimization, the 2009 John von Neumann Theory Prize for fundamental sustained contributions to theory in Operations Research and the Management Sciences, the inaugural 2012 ISMP Tseng Lectureship Prize for outstanding contribution to continuous optimization (every three years), the 2014 Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics Optimization Prize awarded (every three years), the 2025 Constantin Caratheodory Prize of the Global Optimization Congress, etc. He served as a consultant or technical board member to a variety of industries, including Cardinal Operations (COPT) and MOSEK.