Wednesday, June 17, 2015
Miguel Anjos has been elected as Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering.
Miguel
received
his
PhD
in
the
Department
of
Combinatorics
and
Optimization
in
2001
under
the
supervision
of
Professor
Henry
Wolkowicz.
He
is
a
Full
Professor
in
the
Department
of
Mathematics
and
Industrial
Engineering
at
Polytechnique
Montréal,
where
he
holds
a
Canada
Research
Chair
in
Discrete
Nonlinear
Optimization
in
Engineering
and
serves
as
Founding
Director
of
the
Trottier
Energy
Institute.
Miguel
was
awarded
a
Humboldt
Research
Fellowship
for
Experienced
Researchers
in
2009.
In
2012,
he
received
the
Méritas
Teaching
Award
from
Polytechnique
Montréal.
Miguel's
primary
research
objective
is
to
provide
guaranteed
optimal
or
near-optimal
solutions
for
important
classes
of
large-scale
discrete
nonlinear
optimization
problems
arising
in
engineering
applications.
His
current
interests
are
in
developing
new
models
and
algorithms
for
semidefinite,
conic
and
polynomial
optimization,
and
using
them
to
solve
problems
in
the
areas
of
smart
grids
and
layout.