David G. Luenberger

David G. Luenberger received the B.S. degree from the California Institute of Technology and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Stanford University, all in Electrical Engineering.  Since 1963 he has been on the faculty of Stanford University.  He helped found the Department of Engineering-Economic Systems, now merged to become the Department of Management Science and Engineering, where his is currently a professor.

He served as Technical Assistant to the President’s Science Advisor in 1971-72, was Guest Professor at the Technical University of Denmark (1986), Visiting Professor of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1976), and served as Department Chairman at Stanford (1980-1991).

His awards include: Member of the National Academy of Engineering (2008), the Bode Lecture Prize of the Control Systems Society (1990), the Oldenburger Medal of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (1995), and the Expository Writing Award of the Institute of Operations Research and Management Science (1999).  He is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (since 1975.

Interests

His overall interest is the application of mathematics to issues in control, planning, and decision making.  He has worked in the technical fields of control theory, optimization theory and algorithms, and investment theory for portfolios and project evaluation.  He has published six major textbooks: Optimization by Vector Space Methods, Linear and Nonlinear Programming (jointly with Yinyu Ye), Introduction to Dynamic Systems, Microeconomic theory, Investment Science, and Information Science. He has published over eighty journal papers.

Articles

For a complete list of his articles refer to his Archive.