Appointments

Professional

Personal

• a Senior 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 part-time Professor in the Department of Statistics at the University of Chicago. I co-teach in the Computational Math sequence.
• a Senior Fellow of the Computation Institute, (Argonne-University of Chicago)
• an adjunct Associate Professor in the Math Department at Pitt,
• I led the M2ACS and now lead the MACSER project. For business related to it please contact me at "macser-director at lists.mcs.anl.gov"; replacing at with @.

• an Associate Editor for
  • Mathematical Programming A and B,
  • SIAM Journal on Optimization,
  • SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing,
  • SIAM/ASA Journal on Uncertainty Quantification.
  • and Software Editor for Optimization Methods and Software Some submission guidelines are here.
• the author of several publications.
• the author of several presentations at professional meetings, where I enjoy meeting with colleagues.
• the mentor of several bright young scientists, some of which I caught in this photo.
• full CV.

 Opportunities

• New (Oct 2017) postdoc positions with our MACSER project
• Postdoc positions at Argonne in general can be found here.
• New Ph.D studentship opportunities in Statistics and Applied Mathematics at the University of Chicago
• I am/was the advisor, co-advisor, or thesis committee member of several graduate students.

• 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.