Jon Lee (born 1960) is an American

mathematician A mathematician is someone who uses an extensive knowledge of mathematics in their work, typically to solve mathematical problems. Mathematicians are concerned with numbers, data, quantity, structure, space, models, and change. History On ...

and

operations research Operations research ( en-GB, operational research) (U.S. Air Force Specialty Code: Operations Analysis), often shortened to the initialism OR, is a discipline that deals with the development and application of analytical methods to improve deci ...

er, the G. Lawton and Louise G. Johnson Professor of Engineering at the

University of Michigan , mottoeng = "Arts, Knowledge, Truth" , former_names = Catholepistemiad, or University of Michigania (1817–1821) , budget = $10.3 billion (2021) , endowment = $17 billion (2021)As o ...

. He is known for his research in nonlinear discrete optimization and

combinatorial optimization Combinatorial optimization is a subfield of mathematical optimization that consists of finding an optimal object from a finite set of objects, where the set of feasible solutions is discrete or can be reduced to a discrete set. Typical combi ...

Biography

Lee graduated from

Stuyvesant High School Stuyvesant High School (pronounced ), commonly referred to among its students as Stuy (pronounced ), is a State school, public university-preparatory school, college-preparatory, Specialized high schools in New York City, specialized high school ...

in 1977. He did both his undergraduate and graduate studies at

Cornell University Cornell University is a private statutory land-grant research university based in Ithaca, New York. It is a member of the Ivy League. Founded in 1865 by Ezra Cornell and Andrew Dickson White, Cornell was founded with the intention to teach an ...

, earning a bachelor's degree in 1981 and a Ph.D. in 1986 under the supervision of

Robert G. Bland Robert Gary Bland (born February 25, 1948) is an American mathematician and operations researcher, a professor of operations research and information engineering at Cornell University.

. Lee was a faculty member at

Yale University Yale University is a private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Established in 1701 as the Collegiate School, it is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and among the most prestigious in the wo ...

from 1985 until 1993, when he moved to the mathematics department at the

University of Kentucky The University of Kentucky (UK, UKY, or U of K) is a Public University, public Land-grant University, land-grant research university in Lexington, Kentucky. Founded in 1865 by John Bryan Bowman as the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Kentu ...

. From 2000 to 2011, he worked at the IBM

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, after which he returned to academia at the

.Faculty appointment dossier
at Univ. of Michigan, September 2011, retrieved 2012-02-25. From 2010 through 2012, Lee was chair of the

INFORMS The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) is an international society for practitioners in the fields of operations research (O.R.), management science, and analytics. It was established in 1995 with the merger of ...

Optimization Society. In 2018, Lee was appointed Editor-in-Chief of the journal Mathematical Programming, Series A.

Books

Lee is the author of ''A First Course in Combinatorial Optimization'' (Cambridge University Press, 2004) and ''A First Course in Linear Optimization'' (Reex Press, 2013). He is co-author, with Marcia Fampa, of ''Maximum-Entropy Sampling: Algorithms and Application'' (Springer, 2022). He is co-editor of: ''Trends in Optimization'' (American Mathematical Society, 2004), ''Mixed Integer Nonlinear Programming'' (Springer, 2012), ''Integer Programming and Combinatorial Optimization'' (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 8494; Springer, 2014), ''Special Issue: Integer Programming and Combinatorial Optimization, 2014'' (Mathematical Programming, Series B. Issue 1-2, December 2015), and ''Combinatorial Optimization'' (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 10856; Springer, 2018).

Awards and honors

In 2010, Lee and his co-authors won the ICS Prize of the

Computing Society for their work showing that many combinatorial feasibility problems could be recast as systems of

polynomial In mathematics, a polynomial is an expression consisting of indeterminates (also called variables) and coefficients, that involves only the operations of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and positive-integer powers of variables. An exa ...

equations in complex variables and then shown to be infeasible by applying

Hilbert's Nullstellensatz In mathematics, Hilbert's Nullstellensatz (German for "theorem of zeros," or more literally, "zero-locus-theorem") is a theorem that establishes a fundamental relationship between geometry and algebra. This relationship is the basis of algebraic ...

and a wide variety of computational techniques. In 2013, Lee was elected as a Fellow of

.INFORMS Fellows Class of 2013
INFORMS, retrieved 2018-01-25.

References

External links

Web page
on Google Sites
Official University of Michigan web page
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Lee, Jon 1960 births Living people 20th-century American mathematicians 21st-century American mathematicians American operations researchers Stuyvesant High School alumni Cornell University alumni Yale University faculty University of Kentucky faculty University of Michigan faculty Mathematicians from New York (state) Fellows of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences