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David G. Luenberger has been on the faculty of Stanford University since 1963, currently in the Department of Management Science and Engineering. His overall interest is the application of mathematics to issues in control, planning, and decision making. He has done fundamental work in the areas of control theory, optimization theory and algorithms, and investment theory for portfolios and project evaluation. He has published five major textbooks: Optimization by Vector Space Methods, Linear and Nonlinear Programming (jointly with Yinyu Ye), Microeconomic theory, Investment Science, and Information Science. He has published over eighty journal papers.
He served as Technical Assistant to the President's Science Advisor in 1971-72, was Guest Professor at the Technical University of Denmark (1986), Visiting Professor of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1976), and served as Department Chairman at Stanford (1980-1991).
His awards include: Member of the National Academy of Engineering, the Bode Lecture Prize of the Control Systems Society (1990), the Oldenburger Medal of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (1995), and the Expository Writing Award of the Institute of Operations Research and Management Science (1999). He is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (since 1975). |
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