Amir Beck

Biography

Amir Beck is a Professor in the Department of Industrial Engineering at The Technion—Israel Institute of Technology. He has published numerous papers, has given invited lectures at international conferences, and was awarded the Salomon Simon Mani Award for Excellence in Teaching and the Henry Taub Research Prize. His research interests are in continuous optimization, including theory, algorithmic analysis, and applications. He is an associate editor of Mathematics of Operations Research, Mathematical Programming Series A, the Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications and an area editor for optimization in Operations Research. His research has been supported by various funding agencies, including the Israel Science Foundation, the German-Israeli Foundation, the Binational US-Israel foundation, the Israeli Science and Energy Ministries and the European community.

Research Interest

Continuous Optimization: Theory and Algorithms, Analysis of First Order Methods in Convex Optimization, Decomposition and Block-Descent Type Methods, Nonconvex Quadratic Optimization, Applications of Optimization Methods in Engineering and Science.