Current Vitae of Ya-xiang YUAN

Family Name: YUAN Give Name: Ya-xiang
Birthplace: Zixing, Hunan, China Nationality : Chinese

ADDRESS:

State Key Laboratory of Scientific and Engineering Computing
Institute of Computational Mathematics and Scientific/Engineering Computing,
Academy of Matehmatics and System Sciences
Chinese Academy of Sciences,
55 Zhong Guan Cun Dong Lu, P.O. Box 2719, Beijing 10080, CHINA
tel. +86-10-6255-9001, +86-10-6254-5820
Fax. +86-10-6262-7365, +86-10-6254-2285
e-mail: yyx_at_lsec.cc.ac.cn, yyx_at_amss.ac.cn
www: http://lsec.cc.ac.cn/~yyx

EDUCATION
CURRENT POSITIONS
PREVIOUS EMPLOYMENTS
VISITING POSITIONS
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
SUPERVISING RESEARCH STUDENTS
AWARDS, ETC.
GRANTS
WRITING WORK ( PUBLICATIONS )
PROFESSIONAL BODIES
SOCIAL ACTIVITY
HOBBIES

EDUCATION

UNDERGRADUATE
B.Sc. Department of Mathematics, Xiangtan University, Hunan,China, 1981.
GRADUATE
Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, March- December 1982. under Professor Feng Kang and Professor Xi Shao-lin
Ph.D. STUDY
Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics andPembroke College, University of Cambridge,England, January 1983 - May 1986(under Professor M.J.D. Powell FRS).
TRAINING PROGRAM
Executive Development Center, College of Commerce and Business Administration, University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana,USA, August 1995, Training Program for Research Institute Directors ofChinese Academy of Sciences.

DEGREES

B.Sc., Xiangtan University, China, 1982.

Ph.D., University of Cambridge, England, 1986.

CURRENT POSITIONS

Professor, Institute of Computational Mathematics and Scientific/Engineering Computing,Chinese Academy of Sciences.

PREVIOUS EMPLOYMENTS/POSITIONS

Rutherford Research Fellow,Fitzwilliam College, University of Cambridge, England,from October 1985 to September 1988.

Professor, Computing Center, the Chinese Academy of Sciences ,Beijing, China, from November 1988 to Feb. 1995

Director, State Key Laboratory of Scientific/Engineering Computing,Chinese Academy of Sciences, from Sept 1996 to Oct 2005

Director, Institute of Computational Mathematics and Scientific/Engineering Computing, Chinese Academy of Sciences, from March 1995 to April 2007.

Vice President, Academy ofMathematics and System Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences,from Dec 1998 to March 2007.

ACADEMIC VISITINGS

Department of Computer Science, University of Colorado at Boulder,U.S.A. from September 1990 to February 1991.

Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Northwestern University, Illinois, U.S.A., March to August, 1991.

Institute of Angewante Mathematik und Statistik, Universitaet der Wuerzburg, Germany,from July 1992 to June 1993. (Humboldt Fellow)

Department of Mathematics, Honk Kong Baptist College,January to May, 1994.

Department of Mathematics, Federal University of Parana, Brazil, March to May, 1997.

Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge, October 2007 to September 2008.

Department of Angewandte Informatik, Unviersity Bayreuth, Germany, May-August, 2010 (supported by Humboldt Foundation)

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Supervising Part II ``Numerical Analysis'' and ``Approximation Methods''at University of Cambridge, 1984-1988.

Lecturing ``Numerical Methods for Optimization'' and ``Matrix Computations'' at the Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, 1989--.

Lecturing ``Numerical Methods for Constrained Optimization'' for graduate students at University of Colorado at Boulder, Fall 1990.

Lecturing ``Calculus I, II, \& III'' for undergraduate students at University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Sept 2014 to Feb 2016.

SUPERVISING RESEARCH STUDENTS:

Master Degree Students:Zhao, Ke-Ying (1988-1990), Peng, Ji-ming (1990-1992), Chen, Xin (1995-1998), Bai, Li-hui (1996-1999), Zhu, Zong-wu (1997-2000), Nie, Jia-wang (1997-2000), Hei, Long (1998-2001), Zhang, Hong-cao (1998-2001), Hu, Zhi-Yun (1999-2002), Sun, Kai(2000-2003), Han, Xinlou(2000-2003), Ma, Guo-xuan (2000-2003), Wen, Zai-wen (2001-2004), Ma, Shi-qian(2003-2005)

Ph.D. Students:Dai, Yu-hong (1992-1996),Chen, Xiong-da (1993-1998),Liu, Xin-wei (1995-1998), Yuan, Wen-yan (1997-2000),Wang, Shao-wei (1997-2000),Tan, Ying-yi (1997-2000),Luo, Xin-long (1998-2001), Fan, Jin-yan (1999-2002),Xu, Da-chuang (1999-2002),Li, Gai-di (1999-2004),Wang, Yan-fei (2000-2002), Nie, Pu-yan (2000-2002),He, Zu-guo (2000-2003),Li, Gong-long (2001-2003),Wang, Li-ping (2001-2004), Li, Duo-quan (2001-2004),Zhou, Qing-hua (2001-2004),Yan, Tao (2002-2005),Xia, Yong (2002-2007), Zeng, Zhen-zhen (2002-2007),Xu, Ling-ling (2003-2005),Liu, Xin (2004-2009),Niu, Lingfeng (2004-2009), Jae Hwa Lee (2004-2009), Akmal Javaid(2005-2008), Ding, Xiaodong (2005-2010), Tang, Mingyun (2005-2010), Gong, Lujin (2006-2011), Zhang, Zaikun(2007-2012), Wu, Leqin (2007-2012), Wang, Xiao (2007-2012), Sun, Cong(2008-2013), Thanawath Niyamosoth (2009-2014), Sheng, Zhenli (2010-2015), Zhang, Ruiyan (2010-2016), Wang, Shu-Xiong (2011-2016), Dong, Qin (2011-2016), Gu, Ran (2012-2017), Chen, Cheng (2013-2018), Gao, Bin (2014-2019), Zhao, Liang (2014-2019), Wang, Xiao-Yu (2015-2020), Xiao, Na-Chuan (2016-2021), Wu, Yu-Chen (2016-2021), Zhao, Hao-Tian (2017-), Jiang, Bo-ou (2018-), Huang, Lei (2018-), Chen, Shuo (2019-), Xie, Pengcheng (2019-), Zhang, Yi (2020-),

AWARDS, ETC.

First prize in Universities Mathematics Competition, Hunan,China, 1980.

J.T. Knight Prize, University of Cambridge, England, 1983.

L. Fox Prize, London, England, 1985.

Second grade Natural Science Prize, the Chinese Academy ofSciences, 1989.

Young Scientist Award, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 1993

Feng Kang Prize, Beijing, 1995

Young Scientist Award of China, 1996.

First grade Science and Technology Advance Award, Beijing.

National Excellent Science and Technolgy Worker, 2005.

Second Grade, National Natural Science Award of China, 2006.

SIAM Fellow, 2011.

Shiing S. Chern Mathematics Award, 2011.

Member, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2011.

Fellow of AMS, 2012.

TWAS Prize in Mathematics, 2014.

Corresponding Memeber, Brazilian Academy of Sciences, 2014.

Fellow, The World Academy of Sciences for the advancement of science in developing countries(TWAS), 2015.

Su Buqing Prize, China Society on Industrial and Applied Mathematics, 2016.

Math. Prize of Sci. & Tech. Award of HO LEUNG HO LEE Foundation, 2016.

SIAM Prize for Distinguished Service to the Profession, 2017.

Honorary Member, London Mathematical Society, 2021.

INVITED LECTURES

Plenary Lecture, the 4th International Congress on Industrial and Applied Mathematics (Edinburgh, UK, 1999)

Invited Lecture, The Third Asian Mathematical Conference(Malina, Philippines, 2000)

Keynote Lecture, INFORMS International Conference, (Hong Kong, 2006)

Semi-Plenary Lecture, International Conference on Continuous Optimization, (Lisbon, Portugal, 2013)

45 Minute Invited Lecture, International Congress of Mathematicians, (Seoul, Korea, 2014)

Semi-Plenary Lecture, International Symposium on Mathematical Programming (Pittsburg, 2015)

GRANTS

20,000 Yuans (RMB), Youth Science Foundation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 1987, for research on Trust region algorithms fornonlinear constrained optimization .

13,000 Yuans (RMB), National Science Foundation, 1989, forresearch on Direct methods for nonlinear programming .

100,000 Yuans (RMB), CAS President Grant, forresearch on Quasi-Newton Methods and Trust Region Algorithms

300,000 Yuans (RMB), National Natural Science Foundation (19525101), 1995-1998. Nonlinear Optimization methods

500,000 Yuans(RMB) National Natrural Science Foundation ( 19731001 ), 1998 --2002.

600,000 Yuans(RMB) National Natrural Science Foundation ( 10231060 ), 2003 --2006.

1,330,000 Yuans(RMB) National Natrural Science Foundation ( 10831006 ), 2009 --2012.

2,400,000 Yuans(RMB) National Natrural Science Foundation ( 11331012 ), 2014 --2018.

WRITING WORK ( PUBLICATIONS )

EDITORIAL BOARDS:

Science China: Mathematics, eidtor-in-chief, 2013-.

Journal of the Operations Research Society of China, editor-in-chief, 2013--.

SIAM Review, associate editor, 2020-2022.

National Science Review, associate editor, 2014-.

SIAM Journal of Optimization, associate editor, 2007--2015.

Mathematics of Computation , member of editorial board, 2010-2014;

Mathematics of Operations Research , associate editor, 2014-2016.

Journal of Scientific Computing , member of editorial board, 2007-;

Optimization and Engineering (Kluwer),member of editorial board, 2002-.

Optimization Methods and Software (Taylor and Francis),member of editorial board, 1993-.

Acta Mathematica Sinica, English Series,member of editorial board, 2013 - .

Science in China and Chinese Science Bulletin ,member of editorial board, 1996-1999.

Systems Science and Mathematical Sciences,member of editorial board, 1995-2013.

Control, Optimisation and Calculus of Variations(ESAIM),member of editorial board, 2003-2005.

Computational & Applied Mathematics ,member of editorial board, 2006-2016.

Journal of Computational Mathematics (VSP), member of editorial board, 1988-; Associate Editor-in-Chief, 1994-2006.

PROFESSIONAL BODIES:

China Association of Science and Technology, vice president, 2016-2025.

International Council for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, President-elect, 2017-2019; President, 2019-2023.

International Federation of Operational Research, vice president, 2013-2015.

Asia-Pacific Operational Research Society, president, 2009-2012.

Chinese Mathematical Society,vice president, 2000-2007; president, 2016-2019.

China SIAM,member of executive committee, 1995-1999; vice president, 2000-2008.

Chinese Operational Research Society,member of executive committee, 1997-2000; vice president, 2000-2004;president, 2004-2012.

Chinese Computational Mathematics Society,member of the council, 1990-1997.

International Congress of Mathematicians 2002,General Secretary.

SOCIAL ACTIVITY:

President of the Chinese Students and Scholars Association of University of Cambridge, from October 1984 to September 1985 and fromOctober 1986 to September 1987.

Member of the Executive Committee of the All-China YouthFederation , from August 1990 -- July 2007.

Member of the Youth Committee of the Western ReturnedScholars Association, 1992 -- 2000.

Vice President of the Western Returned Scholars Association & President of the UK branch of WRSA, 1999 -- 2007.

Member of the executive committee of the Chinese Association of Alexander von Humboldt Follows, from 1995.

HOBBIES:

Valleyball, running, contract bridge. poems.