Leo LIBERTI

Leo Liberti obtained his Ph.D. in Global Optimization at Imperial College London, held postdoctoral fellowships at Politecnico di Milano and Ecole Polytechnique in France, where he became professor and vice-president of his department. After two years as a Research Staff Member at IBM Research in New York, he was recruited by CNRS as a Research Director and by Ecole Polytechnique as a part-time professor. His main research interests are mathematical programming with applications to industrial problems, optimization algorithms, and distance geometry. He was recently awarded the IFORS Distinguished Lectureship.