Dr Ruth Misener is a Professor in Computational Optimization in the Imperial College London Department of Computing. Ruth received an SB from MIT and a PhD from Princeton under the direction of Professor C. A. Floudas. Foundations of her research are in numerical optimization algorithms. Applications include bioprocess optimization under uncertainty and petrochemical process network design and operations. Ruth has co-authored software including ANTIGONE for mixed-integer nonlinear optimization. Ruth received the 2017 Macfarlane Medal from the Royal Academy of Engineering and the 2020 Outstanding Young Researcher Award from the AIChE Computing & Systems Technology Division. Ruth is an associate editor for Computers & Chemical Engineering and INFORMS Journal on Computing.
Computational Mixed-Integer Nonlinear Optimization
Effective computational solution strategies for mixed-integer nonlinear optimization problems (MINLP) typically take advantage of special mathematical structure. This presentation discusses some recent advances in exploiting special mathematical structure for solving MINLP. We also discuss solver software for MINLP.