Yinyu Ye received the B.S. degree in System Engineering from the Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Management Science & Engineering from Stanford University, Stanford. Currently, he is a full Professor of Management Science and Engineering and Institute of Computational and Mathematical Engineering and the Director of the MS&E Industrial Affiliates Program, Stanford University. His current research interests include Continuous and Discrete Optimization, Mathematical Programming, Algorithm Design and Analysis, Computational Game/Market Equilibrium, Metric Distance Geometry, Graph Realization, Dynamic Resource Allocation and Online Optimization, and Stochastic and Robust Decision Making, etc.

• Recipient of the John von Neumann Theory Prize of 2009 (http://www.informs.org/index.php?c=102&kat=John+von+ Neumann+Theory+Prize)

• Recipient of the 2009 IBM Faculty Award.

• Elected Vice Chair of the SIAM Activity Group on Optimization (SIAG/OPT), 2008.

• The recipient of the 2007 Stanford Asian American Faculty of Year Award

• The INFORMS (The Institute for Operations Research and The Management Sciences) Fellow since 2006 and the first recipient of the Farkas prize of the INFORMS Optimization Society in 2006.

• Selected as a highly cited mathematical researcher on http://www.ISIhighlycited.com 2004.

• The plenary and semi-plenary speakers of ISMP (International Symposium of Mathematical Programming) 2006 and 2000, respectively.

• Chairman of MOSEK Technical Advisory Board, 2008