Andreas Wächter

Curriculum Vitae

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Andreas Wächter is a Professor in the Department of Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences at Northwestern University. His research interests include the design, analysis, implementation and application of numerical algorithms for nonlinear continuous and mixed-integer optimization. He obtained his master's degree in Mathematics at the University of Cologne, Germany, in 1997, and this Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University in 2002. Before joining Northwestern University in 2011, he was a Research Staff Member in the Department of Mathematical Sciences at IBM Research in Yorktown Heights, NY. He is a recipient of the 2011 Wilkinson Prize for Numerical Software and the 2009 Informs Computing Society Prize for his work on the open-source optimization package Ipopt.

 

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Awards

• 2nd place in ARPA-E's Grid Optimization Competition ($400,000), 2020
• Stanislaw M. Ulam Distinguished Scholar, Center for Nonlinear Studies, Los Alamos National Laboratories, (2019-2020)
• Charles Broyden Prize for best paper in Optimization Methods and Software 2016 (with N. Keskar, J. Nocedal, and F. Öztoprak) for "A second-order method for convex l₁-regularized optimization with active-set prediction"
• J. H. Wilkinson Prize for Numerical Software 2011 (with Carl Laird) for Ipopt
• INFORMS Computing Society Prize 2009 (with L.T. Biegler) for "On the implementation of a primal-dual interior point filter line search algorithm for large-scale nonlinear programming"
• SIAM Student Paper Prize 2002 for "Global and Local Convergence of Line Search Filter Methods for Nonlinear Programming"
• Honorary mention at the International Conference on Continuous Optimization (ICCOPT-I) "Young
  Researcher Competition" (Troy, NY, Aug 2004) for "On the Implementation of an Interior-Point Filter Line-Search Algorithm for Large-Scale Nonlinear Programming"
• IBM Awards: Technical Group Award (2003), Research Division Awards (2006 and 2007), Technical
  Accomplishment Award (2009)
  

Teaching awards

• INFORMS Graduate Teaching Award for Outstanding Academic Instruction Among IEMS Graduate Faculty during the 2014-2015 academic year.
• Included in the 2012-2013 Faculty Honor Roll of Northwestern's Associate Student Government.
• INFORMS Graduate Teaching Award for Outstanding Academic Instruction Among IEMS Graduate
  Faculty during the 2011-2012 academic year.