Yinyu Ye

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Yinyu Ye is currently the Kwoh-Ting Li Professor in the School of Engineering at the Department of Management Science and Engineering and Institute of Computational and Mathematical Engineering and the Director of the MS&E Industrial Affiliates Program, Stanford University. He received the B.S. degree in System Engineering from the Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Engineering-Economic Systems and Operations Research from Stanford University. Ye's research interests lie in the areas of optimization, complexity theory, algorithm design and analysis, and applications of mathematical programming, operations research and system engineering. He is also interested in developing optimization software for various real-world applications. Current research topics include Liner Programming Algorithms, Markov Decision Processes, Computational Game/Market Equilibrium, Metric Distance Geometry, Dynamic Resource Allocation, and Stochastic and Robust Decision Making, etc. He is an INFORMS (The Institute for Operations Research and The Management Science) Fellow, and has received several research awards including the inaugural 2012 ISMP Tseng Lectureship Prize for outstanding contribution to continuous optimization, the 2009 John von Neumann Theory Prize for fundamental sustained contributions to theory in Operations Research and the Management Sciences, the inaugural 2006 Farkas prize on Optimization, and the 2009 IBM Faculty Award. He has supervised numerous doctoral students at Stanford who received the 2008 Nicholson Prize and the 2006 and 2010 INFORMS Optimization Prizes for Young Researchers. Ye teaches courses on Optimization, Network and Integer Programming, Semidefinite Programming, etc. He has written extensively on Interior-Point Methods, Approximation Algorithms, Conic Optimization, and their applications; and served as a consultant or technical board member to a variety of industries, including MOSEK.

For a list of Ye's publications, see his publications page. Professor Ye's CV can be downloaded here.

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Title Author(s) Journal Date
On stress matrices of (d + 1)-lateration frameworks in general position Alfakih, Taheri, and Ye Math Programming 01-2011
The Simplex and Policy-Iteration Methods are Strongly Polynomial for the Markov Decision Problem with a Fixed Discount Rate Ye Math Operations Res 01-2011
A Note on Complexity of L-p Minimization Ge, Jiang and Ye Math Programming 01-2011
A Unified Framework for Dynamic Prediction Market Design Agrawal, Delage, Peters, Wang, and Ye Operations Research 01-2011
Lower Bound Theory of Nonzero Entries in Solutions of L2-Lp Minimization Chen, Xu and Ye SIAM J. Scientific Computing 01-2010
Semidefinite Relaxation of Quadratic Optimization Problems Luo, Ma, So, Ye, and Zhang IEEE Signal Processing Magazine 01-2010
Universal Rigidity and Edge Sparsification for Sensor Network Localization Zhu, So and Ye SIAM J Optimization 01-2010
Price of Correlations in Stochastic Optimization Agrawal, Ding, Sebari, and Ye Operations Research
The cubic spherecial optimization problem Zhang, Qi and Ye Math of Computation
  • 2012 ISMP Tseng Lectureship Prize (Inaugural Recipient) for outstanding contributions in the area of continuous optimization, consisting of original theoretical results, innovative applications, or successful software development.
  • 2009 INFORMS John von Neumann Theory Prize (Co-Recipient) for fundamental sustained contributions to theory in Operations Research and the Management Sciences
  • The 2007 Stanford Asian American Faculty of Year Award
  • The inaugural recipient of the Farkas Prize of the INFORMS Optimization Society (awarded bi-annually), 2006 
  • Elected INFORMS Fellow November 6, 2006

Selected Professional Activities

  • Plenary speaker at the 21th International Symposium on Mathematical Programming, Berlin, 2012
  • Plenary speaker in Workshop on Internet and Network Economics, 2008
  • Semi-Plenary speaker at the 17th International Symposium on Mathematical Programming, Atlanta, 2000
  • Area Editor of Optimization & Engineering (2000-)
  • Associate Editor of Mathematics of Operations Research (1998-2001)
  • Section Officer (Linear Programming) of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences, (1997-2000) 
  • Co-organizer of the 1999 DIMACS Princeton workshop on discrete optimization
  • Numerous international awards and research grants