Sun Defeng
Professor at National University of Singapore
Schools
- National University of Singapore
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Biography
National University of Singapore
Education
- BSc (1989), MSc (1992) both from Department of Mathematics, Nanjing University, Nanjing
- PhD (1995) from Institute of Applied Mathematics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing [Supervisor: Professor Jiye Han
Recent Research Interests
- Sparse Newton Methods with Low Complexities
- Matrix Optimization (MatOpt): Theory, Algorithms, Software and Applications
- High-Dimensional Statistical Optimization
- Second Order Variational Analysis
- Risk Management and Computational Finance
Professional Activities
- President, The Hong Kong Mathematical Society (May 2020--).
- Organizing Committee Co-Chair and Local Organizing Committee Co-Chair, “SIAM Conference on Optimization (OP20)”, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, May 26-29, 2020.
- Program Committee Member, “The Sixth International Conference on Continuous Optimization (ICCOPT 2019)”, Berlin, August 5-8, 2019.
- Program Committee Member, “The Fifth International Conference on Continuous Optimization (ICCOPT 2016)”, Tokyo, August 6-11, 2016.
- Associate Editor, Mathematical Programming (Series A, August 2007 --; Series B, January 2014--December 2017).
- Associate Editor, SIAM Journal on Optimization (January 2012--).
- Associate Editor, Journal of the Operations Research Society of China (2012--).
- Associate Editor, Journal of Computational Mathematics (2017--).
- Associate Editor, Science China Mathematics (January 2018 --).
- Associate Editor, Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications (2021 --).
- Advisory Committee Member, Asia-Pacific Journal of Operational Research (January 2014--); editor-in-chief (October 2010 –December 2013).
- Society Membership: INFORMS, SIAM, MOS, AMS, CSIAM, HKMS and etc.
Videos
OWOS: Defeng Sun - "ALM+Semismooth Newton Method for Large Scale Semidefinite Programming & Beyond"
Defeng Sun - On Equivalence of Inexact Proximal ALM & ADMM for a Class of Convex Composite Prog.
Awardee of 2022/23 RGC Senior Research Fellow Scheme - Professor Defeng SUN
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