MS&E People

personnel profile

Yinyu Ye

 
Title:Professor
Department(s):Management Science and Engineering, Electrical Engineering by courtesy
Affiliation(s):Director, Management Science and Engineering Industrial Affiliates Program
Location:Terman 316
Mail Code:4026
Phone:650.723.7262       650.248.1581
Fax:650.723.1614
E-mail: yinyu-ye@stanford.edu
URL: http://www.stanford.edu/~yyye
http://www.stanford.edu/dept/MSandE/people/faculty/ye/index.html
Administrator: Rosalind T. Morf

Research Statement

Yinyu Ye is Professor of Management Science and Engineering and, by courtesy, Electrical Engineering and the Director of the MS&E Industrial Affiliates Program at Stanford's School of Engineering. He holds a Ph.D. in Engineering Economic Systems and Operations Research from Stanford University. Prior to coming to Stanford in 2002, Ye served for fourteen years in the Management Science Department of the University of Iowa as the Henry Tippie Research Professor. He has been or was on the editorial board of Management Science, Operations Research, Mathematics of Operations Research, SIAM J Optimization; and the area editor of Optimization & Engineering. He was the recipient numerous international and national awards, fellowships and research grants, a semi-plenary speaker and member of the International Advisory Committee of the International Symposium on Mathematical Programming, the Section Officer (Linear Programming) of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences, the co-organizer of the 1999 DIMACS Princeton workshop on discrete optimization, and the Distinguished Speaker in High Performance Computation for Engineered Systems of MIT. He was also selected as a highly cited mathematical researcher on www.ISIhighlycited.com. Ye teaches courses on Optimization, Network and Integer Programming, Semidefinite Programming, etc. He has written extensively on Interior-Point Methods, Approximation Algorithms, Conic Optimization, and their applications. Ye is currently working on Markov Decisions, Computational Game Theory and Graph Localization. He has served as a consultant to a variety of industries.

Ye's research interests lie in the areas of optimization, complexity theory, algorithm design and analysis, and applications of mathematical programming, operations research and system engineering. He is also interested in developing optimization software for various real-world applications.

For a list of Ye's publications, see his publications page.

Degree Discipline Year School
PhD Engineering Economic Systems and Operations Resear 1988 Stanford University
MS Engineering Economic Systems 1983 Stanford University
BS Systems and Control 1982 ong University of Science and Technology (HUST), China

Academic Honors & Awards

  • The 2007 Stanford Asian American Faculty of Year Award
  • The first recipient of the Farkas Prize of the INFORMS Optimization Society (awarded bi-annually), 2006.
  • Elected INFORMS Fellow November 6, 2006

Selected Professional Activities

  • Semi-Plenary speaker at the 17th International Symposium on Mathematical Programming, Atlanta, 2000.
  • Area Editor of Optimization & Engineering (2000-).
  • Associate Editor of Mathematics of Operations Research (1998-2001).
  • Section Officer (Linear Programming) of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences, (1997-2000).
  • Co-organizer of the 1999 DIMACS Princeton workshop on discrete optimization.
  • Numerous international awards and research grants.