CV | Bruno F. Lourenço

Employment

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

2023: “Mathematical Programming 2022 Meritorious Service Award” from the editorial board of the Mathematical Programming journal.
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.

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/

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 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