Modern Nonconvex Nondifferentiable Optimization

Ying Cui is an Assistant Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the University of Minnesota. Previously, she spent over two years as a postdoctoral associate at the University of Southern California. Her research focuses on the mathematical foundation of data science with emphasis on optimization techniques for operations research, machine learning, and statistical estimations.

Jong-Shi Pang is the Epstein Family Chair and Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the University of Southern California. Since July 2019, he has served as the Editor-in-Chief of the SIAM Journal on Optimization. His research interests include mathematical modeling and analysis of a wide range of complex engineering and economics systems, with a focus in operations research, single and multi-agent optimization, equilibrium programming, and constrained dynamical systems. In February 2021, he became a member of the National Academy of Engineering.