Luís Nunes Vicente, member of the scientific council of CIM, has been selected as a Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM). SIAM has over 14,000 individual members in all areas of industrial and applied math. The SIAM Fellows Program recognises members of SIAM who have made outstanding contributions to fields served by the industrial and applied math community. According to his citation, Luís was selected for ground-breaking contributions to derivative-free and bilevel optimisation, and exemplary leadership in editorial and organisational service to the SIAM community.
Luís serves as Professor and Chair at Lehigh University. He is a leading researcher in continuous optimisation and its applications to industrial engineering and operations research, he received his PhD from Rice University in 1996 under a Fulbright scholarship and was awarded the Lagrange Prize of MOS-SIAM in 2015. He has held visiting positions at institutions including IBM Research, NYU, Rice, CERFACS, and Rome Sapienza, and has served on the editorial boards of the SIAM Journal on Optimization and Mathematical Programming. He currently chairs the SIAM Activity Group on Optimization (2023-2025) and ACORD (2023),
Luís commented this distinction saying: “It is a great honor to be elected a Fellow of SIAM. I have always had tremendous admiration for SIAM, from all the work done to promote the field and the profession to all its journals, conferences, and awards. I never thought I would reach this level, and my takeaway is to continue to work hard in my research and serve others in the community.”