Tamás Terlaky

Dr. Terlaky is a George N. and Soteria Kledaras ’87 Endowed Chair Professor Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Lehigh University. He was also the Chair of the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Lehigh University, 2008 – 2017.

Dr. Terlaky has published four books, edited over ten books and journal special issues and published over 160 research papers. Topics include theoretical and algorithmic foundations of operations research (e.g., invention of the criss-cross method), design and analysis of large classes of interior point methods, computational optimization, worst case examples of the central path, nuclear reactor core reloading optimization, oil refinery and VLSI design optimization and robust radiation therapy treatment optimization.

Dr. Terlaky is Founding Editor-in-Chief of the journal, Optimization and Engineering. He has served as associate editor of eight journals and has served as conference chair, conference organizer, and distinguished invited speaker at conferences all over the world. He is a former Chair of INFORMS’ Optimization Society, Chair of the ICCOPT Steering Committee of the Mathematical Optimization Society, and Vice President of INFORMS. He is Fellow of the Fields Institute, SIAM, INFORMS, and the Canadian Academy of Engineering. His research interest includes high performance optimization methods, optimization modeling and optimization problems in engineering sciences.