Appointments

Professional

Personal

• a Computational Mathematician in the  Laboratory for Advanced Numerical Software.
• a fellow of the Computation Institute, (Argonne-University of Chicago)
• an adjunct Associate Professor in the Math Department at Pitt,

• an Associate Editor for Mathematical Programming and Software Editor for Optimization Methods and Software Some submission guidelines are here.
• An organizer of the 2009 SIAM annual meeting and of the 2009 International Symposium in Mathematical Programming (ISMP)
• the author of several publications.
• the author of several presentations at professional meetings, where I enjoy meeting with colleagues.
• an officer of the Optimization Section of INFORMS. 
• the advisor or co-advisor of several graduate students, who, once in a while, graduate :-)
• full CV.

• class of 1986 of the Carol National High School  from Craiova, Romania.Class graduation photo (without me; I was here at the time).
• a one-time aspiring Romanian mathematician. Here, with the 1986 Romanian Math Olympic team, on our way to the 26-th International Math Olympiad..
• the eternal admirer of a  garden designed by my wife.
• a commuter with a spectacular drive to work.
• the father of a kite captain; she is also the president of our local Calvin and Hobbes club (members: myself and her little sis).

 Education

• an Electrical Engineer, 1992, Polytechnic University of Bucharest, Romania.

• a Ph.D, 1997, Applied Mathematical and Computational Sciences, University of Iowa. My Ph.D. genealogy tree, courtesy Ilya Safro.