Forum on Developments and Origins of Operations Research

Wen Song (Harbin Normal University)

Wen Song, professor, Ph.D. supervisor. He got his Ph.D. from Institute of Mathematics, Polish Academy of Sciences in 1997, then was an Adiunkt at Institute of Systems Research, Polish Academy of Science until he came back to Harbin Normal University in 1999. He is an executive council member of the Mathematical Programming Branch of ORSC. His main research interests are variational Analysis and optimization theory. He published more than 50 papers (including in SIAM J. Optim., Math. Program.). He completed the National Natural Sciences Foundation and the Heilongjiang Province National Science Foundation for Distinguished Young Scholar, he received the award of Heilongjiang Province Science and Technology (the second class). 

Xiyin Zheng (Yunnan University)

Xiyin Zheng is currently a professor at Yunnan University, and an executive council member of the Mathematical Programming Branch of ORSC. His main research interests cover functional analysis, variational analysis and the theory of nonsmooth optimization. He joined Yunnan University in 1987 and received his PhD from the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2003. Since 1999, he has been annually invited to the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and National Sun Yat-sen University for academic visits. He has published around 80 SCI papers, including more than 30 on top journals such as SIAM J. Optim., Math. Program., Math. Oper. Res., and J. Funct. Anal. He has also received many awards including the Science and Technology Prize of Yunnan Province for three times, along with the Young Teacher Prize of Huo Ying Dong Education Foundation, and so on.

Liwei Zhang (Dalian University of Technology)

Liwei Zhang is a professor and doctoral supervisor in Operations Research and Control Theory and also a doctoral supervisor in Financial Mathematics and Actuarial Science, School of Mathematical Sciences, Dalian University of Technology. From 1999 to 2001, he worked as a postdoctoral fellow in the Institute of Computational Mathematics, Chinese Academy of Sciences. The current research interests are matrix optimization, stochastic optimization and equilibrium optimization. He has completed and presided over a number of general funds and two key subprojects of NSFC. He has published more than 10 papers in Math. Program., Oper. Res., SIAM J. Optim., Math. Oper. Res., and Math. Comp. In 2020, he won the ORSC Research Prize. He is now a member of the standing committee of ORSC, the vice president of Mathematical Programming Branch and vice president of Financial Engineering and Financial Risk Management Branch of ORSC.

Boris Mordukhovich (Wayne State University)

Boris Mordukhovich is one of the founders of modern variational analysis and generalized derivation, and an expert in nonlinear analysis, optimization, control theory, and their applications. He got his PhD from the Belarus State University in 1973. He is currently a Distinguished University Professor of Mathematics and Lifetime Scholar of the Academy of Scholars at Wayne State University in Detroit. Prof. Mordukhovich has authored around 500 publications including two volumes in Springer’s Grundlehren series entitled Variational Analysis and Generalized Differentiation. He is a Fellow of AMS and SIAM, also a recipient of many international awards and honors including Doctor Honoris Causa degrees from 6 universities worldwide. He was the founding editor and a co-editor-in-chief of Set-Valued Var. Anal., and is an associate editor of many high-ranked journals. Prof. Mordukhovich is in the list of Highly Cited Researchers in Mathematics.

Jane J. Ye (University of Victoria)

Jane J. Ye works as a professor of mathematics at University of Victoria. Her interests include nonsmooth optimization and variational analysis, with a strong focus on bilevel optimization and its applications. She was born in China and received her B.Sc from Xiamen University in 1982. She held a Killam postgraduate scholarship from 1987 to 1990 while completing a PhD at Dalhousie University under the supervision of Michael Dempster. From 1990 to 1992 she was a postdoctoral researcher at the Centre de Recherches Mathématiques in Montreal, under the supervision of Francis Clarke. She joined University of Victoria in 1992 with an NSERC Women's Faculty Award, and has been a full professor since 2002. Prof. Ye serves as an associate editor of SIAM J. Optim., Math. Oper. Res. and Set-Valued Var. Anal. She is also the recipient of 2015 Krieger-Nelson Prize, given annually by the Canadian Mathematical Society to an outstanding female researcher in mathematics.

Tyrrell Rockafellar (University of Washington)

Ralph Tyrrell Rockafellar is one of the leading scholars in optimization theory and related fields of analysis and combinatorics. Born in 1935, he studied mathematics at Harvard University, earning degrees in 1957 and 1963. He has long been associated with the University of Washington in Seattle, where he is Professor Emeritus of Mathematics. Prof. Rockafellar has authored over 240 publications, including one of the all-time most highly cited books in mathematics, Convex Analysis. The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) awarded him and Roger Wets the 1997 Lancaster Prize for their book Variational Analysis, and in 1999 he was further honored by INFORMS with John von Neumann Theory Prize for his fundamental contributions to the methodology of optimization. He has received numerous other decorations including the George B. Dantzig Prize.