Pablo Parrilo

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Pablo A. Parrilo from MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) was named Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in 2016 [1] for contributions to semidefinite and sum-of-squares optimization. He was named a SIAM Fellow in 2018. [2]

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References

  1. "2016 elevated fellow" (PDF). IEEE Fellows Directory.
  2. "SIAM Announces Class of 2018 Fellows", SIAM News, March 29, 2018