Appointments

Professional

Personal

• a Computational Mathematician in the  Laboratory for Advanced Numerical Software(LANS). LANS is part of the Mathematics and Computer Science Division at Argonne, which has an interesting history in computing.
• a fellow of the Computation Institute, (Argonne-University of Chicago)
• a part-time Professor in the Department of Statistics at the University of Chicago.
• an adjunct Associate Professor in the Math Department at Pitt,

• an Associate Editor for Mathematical Programming A and B 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.
• a past 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. Another IMO site.
• the eternal admirer of a  garden designed by my wife.
• a commuter with a spectacular drive to work.
• the father of a kite captain;
• The captain of the family train.

 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.