DDMA collaborates with Rice University in optimization, compressed sensing and measure theory.

Optimization

Our collaboration on optimization is with John Dennis and relates to our work on fast X-ray Reconstruction. John Dennis is Research Professor and Noah Harding Professor Emeritus of Computational & Applied Mathematics at Rice University. He served two terms as Chair of the Department of Computational and Applied Mathematics, and he also served a term as Chair of the Department of Computer Science.

His research is on rigorous optimization algorithms that work for real problems, and to advance that work, he spent AY 1975-76 working at the National Bureau of Economics Research and 1996-97 working with a team at Boeing on software tools to support simulation-based design. He has been collaborating with Boeing since 1993, and he is an original member of the Boeing team that produced the commercial Design Explorer toolkit for simulation-based design.

He coauthored with Robert Schnabel the book, NUMERICAL METHODS FOR UNCONSTRAINED OPTIMIZATION AND NONLINEAR EQUATIONS, which was published in 1983 by Prentice-Hall, translated into Russian by Mir Press, and is now in its fifth printing as a SIAM Classic in Applied Mathematics. Of his 35 PhD graduates, 17 are in industry or government. On his 60th birthday, he was honored by the publication of a special issue of the SIAM JOURNAL FOR OPTIMIZATION dedicated to him. He is listed in ISI Highly Cited Computer Scientists.