Kim-Chuan Toh is a Singaporean mathematician, and Leo Tan Professor in Science at the

National University of Singapore The National University of Singapore (NUS) is a national public research university in Singapore. Founded in 1905 as the Straits Settlements and Federated Malay States Government Medical School, NUS is the oldest autonomous university in the c ...

(NUS). He is known for his contributions to the theory, practice, and application of

convex optimization Convex optimization is a subfield of mathematical optimization that studies the problem of minimizing convex functions over convex sets (or, equivalently, maximizing concave functions over convex sets). Many classes of convex optimization probl ...

, especially semidefinite programming and

conic programming Conic optimization is a subfield of convex optimization that studies problems consisting of minimizing a convex function over the intersection of an affine subspace and a convex cone. The class of conic optimization problems includes some of th ...

. Toh received BSc (Hon.) in 1990 and MSc in 1992, from NUS, and PhD in 1996 from

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 ...

Selected works

* Toh, K. C.; Todd, M. J.; Tütüncü, R. H., "SDPT3—a MATLAB software package for semidefinite programming, version 1.3. Interior point methods". Optim. Methods Softw. 11/12 (1999), no. 1–4, 545–581. * Tütüncü, R. H.; Toh, K. C.; Todd, M. J., "Solving semidefinite-quadratic-linear programs using SDPT3. Computational semidefinite and second order cone programming: the state of the art". Math. Program. 95 (2003), no. 2, Ser. B, 189–217. * Toh, K. C.; Yun, S., "An accelerated proximal gradient algorithm for nuclear norm regularized linear least squares problems". Pac. J. Optim. 6 (2010), no. 3, 615–640. *Todd, M. J.; Toh, K. C.; Tütüncü, R. H., "On the Nesterov-Todd direction in semidefinite programming". SIAM J. Optim. 8 (1998), no. 3, 769–796. *Zhao, X.-Y.; Sun, D.; Toh, K. C., "A Newton-CG augmented Lagrangian method for semidefinite programming". SIAM J. Optim. 20 (2010), no. 4, 1737–1765. *Driscoll, T. A.; Toh, K. C.; Trefethen, L. N., "From potential theory to matrix iterations in six steps". SIAM Rev. 40 (1998), no. 3, 547–578.

Awards and honours

Toh received the 2017 INFORMS Optimization Society Farkas Prize, and 2019 President's Science Award (Singapore). He is a fellow of the Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics (Class of 2018).

References

External links

Homepage of Kim Chuan Toh

The Mathematics Genealogy Project – Kim Chuan Toh
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