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Stephen J. Wright holds the George B. Dantzig Professorship, Sheldon Lubar Chair, and Amar and Balinder Sohi Professorship as a Professor of Computer Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His research focuses on computational optimization with broad applications across scientific and engineering disciplines.
His expertise spans computational optimization, mathematical optimization, and optimization algorithms, with significant contributions through widely adopted textbooks like Primal Dual Interior-Point Methods and Numerical Optimization. His work bridges theoretical foundations with practical implementations for complex scientific computing challenges.
Notable honors include:
- W.R.G. Baker award from IEEE (2014)
- SIAM Fellow designation
Wright serves as editor-in-chief of the SIAM Journal on Optimization and has held editorial leadership roles for Mathematical Programming (Series A/B), SIAM Review, and SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing. His academic career includes prior positions at North Carolina State University (1986-1990), Argonne National Laboratory (1990-2001), and the University of Chicago (2000-2001), followed by continuous service at UW-Madison since 2001. He has chaired the Mathematical Optimization Society and served as SIAM Trustee, with recent program participation at the Simons Institute including Fall 2021's Geometric Methods in Optimization and Sampling.
