Robert Vanderbei

Professor of Operations Research and Financial Engineering

Website: http://www.princeton.edu/~rvdb/

Office: Sherrerd Hall, 209

Research interests: Telescope design for searching for extra-solar planets; high-contrast imaging; diffractive optics; robust optimization; fast Fourier optimization; financial portfolio selection; convex optimization; multi-objective optimization; stochastic dominance; stability of Saturn's rings; astrophysics; stable solutions to the n-body problem

Vanderbei and Register recognized for outstanding service and mentorship
Optimizing operations for an unprecedented view of the universe
Princeton team earns top honors during grueling international math-modeling competition
Two professors named INFORMS fellows