Paul Tseng | |
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| 曾匀 | |
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| Born | September 21, 1959 |
| Citizenship | United States and Canada |
| Alma mater | Queen's University (BSc) Massachusetts Institute of Technology (PhD) |
| Known for | Large-scale optimization Convex optimization Linear programming Distributed computing Network algorithms |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Optimization, Mathematics, Network |
| Institutions | University of British Columbia Massachusetts Institute of Technology University of Washington |
| Disappeared | August 13, 2009, (age 49) Yunan province of China |
| Status | Missing for 15 years, 2 months and 15 days |
Paul Tseng (Chinese: 曾匀) was a Taiwanese-born American-Canadian applied mathematician and a professor at the Department of Mathematics at the University of Washington, in Seattle, Washington. Tseng was recognized by his peers to be one of the leading optimization researchers of his generation. On August 13, 2009, Paul Tseng went missing while kayaking in the Jinsha River in the Yunnan province of China and is presumed dead.[1]
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