About

Arkadi Nemirovski is the John P. Hunter, Jr. Chair in the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Georgia Tech.

Dr. Nemirovski's research interests focus on Optimization Theory and Algorithms, with emphasis on investigating complexity and developing efficient algorithms for nonlinear convex programs, optimization under uncertainty, applications of convex optimization in engineering, and nonparametric statistics.

Dr. Nemirovski has made fundamental contributions to continuous optimization in the last forty years that have significantly shaped the field. In recognition of his contributions to convex optimization, Nemirovski was awarded the 1982 Fulkerson Prize from the Mathematical Programming Society and the American Mathematical Society (joint with L. Khachiyan and D. Yudin), the 1991 Dantzig Prize from the Mathematical Programming Society and the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (joint with M. Grotschel), the 2003 von Neumann Theory Prize of INFORMS (joint with M. Todd), the 2019 Norbert Wiener Prize in Applied Mathematics from AMS and SIAM (joint with M. Berger), the 2023 World Laureates Association Prize (joint with Yu. Nesterov), and the 2024 INFORMS Lanchester Prize (joint with A. Juditsky). He was elected to the National Academy of Engineering (2017), to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2018), and to the National Academy of Sciences (2020).

Dr. Nemirovski earned a Ph.D. in Mathematics (1974) from Moscow State University,  the Doctor of Sciences in Mathematics (1990) from the Supreme Attestation Board at the USSR Council of Ministers, and the Doctor of Mathematics (Honoris Causa) from the University of Waterloo, Canada (2009).