CV | Bruno F. Lourenço

Employment

April 2025 - : Visiting Associate Professor at RIMS-Kyoto University
April 2020 - : Associate Professor at The Institute of Statistical Mathematics, Department of Fundamental Statistical Mathematics, Statistical Decision-Making Group
April 2018 - March 2020: Assistant Professor at University of Tokyo, Department of Mathematical Informatics, Mathematical Programming Laboratory(数理5研).
April 2018 - March 2021: Visiting fellow at Seikei Education and Research Center for Sustainable Development.
April 2016 - March 2018: Assistant Professor at Seikei University, Department of Computer and Information Sciences, Laboratory of Modeling and Algorithms

PhD in Mathematical and Computing Sciences
Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
Thesis: Analysis of ill-posed conic linear programs and slack variables approach for nonlinear SDP
Advisor: Prof. Mituhiro Fukuda and Prof. Takashi Tsuchiya
Period: April 2013 - March 2016
M.Sc. in Mathematics
University of Brasilia, Brazil
Dissertation: Construção e Aplicações do caráter de Steinberg (Construction and Applications of the Steinberg Character)
Advisor: Prof. Marco Antonio Pellegrini
Period: March 2011 - September 2012
B.Sc. in Computer Science
University of Brasilia, Brazil
Dissertation: Um Estudo sobre Otimização Irrestrita: Programação Matemática, IA e Hibridizações
Advisor: Prof. Marcelo Ladeira
Period: August 2006 - February 2011

2019: “Research Encouragement Award” from the Operations Research Society of Japan
2017: “Best paper award” from the Operations Research Society of Japan for the paper “A structural geometrical analysis of weakly infeasible SDPs”
2011: “Distinguished Student” award from the University of Brasília.

2026: “Mathematical Programming 2025 Meritorious Service Award” from the editorial board of the Mathematical Programming journal.
2025: “2024 Meritorious Service Award” from the editorial board of the Mathematics of Operations Research journal.
2023: “Mathematical Programming 2022 Meritorious Service Award” from the editorial board of the Mathematical Programming journal.

Towards new classes of conic optimization problems
Period: 01/04/2023 – 31/03/2028
Funding source: Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science.
https://kaken.nii.ac.jp/en/grant/KAKENHI-PROJECT-23K16844/
Solving ill-posed conic optimization problems
Period: 01/04/2019 – 31/03/2023
Funding source: Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science.
https://kaken.nii.ac.jp/en/grant/KAKENHI-PROJECT-19K20217/

Combinatorics and Algorithms for Identifiability Problems in Rigidity Theory and Algebraic Statistics
Period: 01/12/2025 – 31/03/2029
Funding source: JST Aspire, Grant Number JPMJAP2520
Development of Optimization Mathematical Modeling
Period: 01/04/2021 – 31/03/2024
Funding source: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science.
https://kaken.nii.ac.jp/en/grant/KAKENHI-PROJECT-21H03398/
Developing efficient algorithms for nonconvex non smooth optimization and its application to machine learning
Period: 01/04/2019 – 31/03/2023
Funding source: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science.
https://kaken.nii.ac.jp/en/grant/KAKENHI-PROJECT-19H04069/
Challenge to Intractable Semidefinite and Second-order Cone Programs
Period: 01/04/2018 – 31/03/2021
Funding source: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science.
https://kaken.nii.ac.jp/en/grant/KAKENHI-PROJECT-18H03206/
Optimization over convex cones and new developments for optimization modelling
Period: 01/04/2015 – 31/03/2018.
Funding source: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science.
https://kaken.nii.ac.jp/grant/KAKENHI-PROJECT-15H02968/

Member of the organizing committee for the Workshop Cones: Theory and Optimization. Link
Member of the organizing committee for the Workshop on Continuous Optimization and Related Topics. Link
Copy editor for the Journal of The Operations Research Society of Japan, 2018-2020
Member of the local organizing committee for the Fifth International Conference on Continuous Optimization, 2016. Link