Samuel A. Burer

Samuel A. Burer is the Tippie-Rollins Professor and Departmental Executive Officer in Business Analytics at the University of Iowa's Tippie College of Business. He earned his Ph.D. in Algorithms, Combinatorics, and Optimization from Georgia Institute of Technology and a B.S. in Mathematics from the University of Georgia.

• Research Interests: Optimization, operations research, management sciences, discrete and continuous optimization, decision making under uncertainty.
• Editorial Roles: Area Editor for Operations Research (2020-2026), Associate Editor for SIAM Journal on Optimization, Mathematical Programming, and others.
• Teaching: Teaches across all business education levels and received multiple teaching awards, including the University of Iowa President & Provost Award for Teaching Excellence.

Scientific Awards:

• INFORMS Computing Paper Prize (2020)
• SIAM Optimization Test of Time Award (2023)
• President & Provost Award for Teaching Excellence (2022)
• Collegiate Teaching Award (2020)
• Optimization Prize for Young Researchers (2002)

Grants: Principal Investigator for NSF CAREER grant (2006-2012) and collaborative NSF grants (2002-2005) focused on nonconvex quadratic and conic optimization theory.

Projects: Developed optimization algorithms for Trader Joe's warehouse location analysis, college football rankings, and created software tools like QuadProgBB and OPTDNN for solving semidefinite programs.