I'm a Professor in the Department of Industrial
Engineering and Management Sciences at Northwestern University. I obtained
my master's degree in Mathematics (Dipl. Math.) at the University of
Cologne, Germany, and my Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering at Carnegie Mellon
University. Before joining Northwestern University in 2011, I was a
Research Staff Member in the Department of Mathematical Sciences at IBM
Research in Yorktown Heights, NY.
My research interests include the design, analysis, implementation and
application of numerical algorithms for nonlinear continuous and
mixed-integer optimization, scientific computing, power systems, and sustainability.
I'm a recipient of the 2011 Wilkinson Prize for Numerical Software and the
2009 INFORMS Computing Society Prize for my work on the open-source
optimization package Ipopt.
Andreas Wächter
Professor of Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences