Subject to: Jorge Nocedal

Jorge Nocedal is a Professor in the Department of Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences at Northwestern University. He obtained his B.S. degree from UNAM, Mexico, and a PhD from Rice University. His research is in optimization, both deterministic and stochastic, and with emphasis on large-scale problems. He served as editor-in-chief of the SIAM Journal on Optimization, is a SIAM Fellow, and was awarded the 2012 George B. Dantzig Prize (MOS-SIAM), the 2017 Von Neumann Theory Prize (INFORMS), and the 2024 John Von Neumann Prize (SIAM) for contributions to theory and algorithms of nonlinear optimization. He is a member of the US National Academy of Engineering.