Donald Goldfarb
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New York, New York 10027
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A member of Columbia University's Industrial Engineering and Operations Research Department since 1982, Professor Goldfarb served as chair of the department from 1984 to 2002. In addition, in 1994–95, he served as acting dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Science. Before coming to Columbia, Professor Goldfarb held positions as professor and acting chair in the Department of Computer Science at the City College of New York, visiting professor in the Department of Computer Science and at the School of Operations Research and Industrial Engineering at Cornell University, and assistant research scientist at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences of New York University. Professor Goldfarb's teaching and research interests include algorithms for linear, quadratic, semidefinite, second-order cone and general nonlinear programming, network flows, large sparse systems, and applications in robust optimization, finance, and imaging. Professor Goldfarb has published approximately 75 technical papers and has served on the editorial boards of several journals including editor in chief of Mathematical Programming, editor of the SIAM Journal on Optimization, and the SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis, and associate editor of Operations Research and Mathematics of Computation. He has been a member of the councils of the Mathematical Programming Society and the American Mathematical Society, numerous technical society program and award committees, and advisory committees to various universities and government research agencies. The 1995 recipient of the Institute for Operations Research and Management Sciences Prize for Research Excellence in the interface between operations research and computer science, Professor Goldfarb also received honorable mention for the 1996 SIAM Optimization Prize and was honored with the 1999 Great Teachers Award from the Society of Columbia Graduates.