Yurii Nesterov

Yurii Nesterov
2005 in Oberwolfach
Born	(1956-01-25) January 25, 1956 (age 68) Moscow, USSR
Citizenship	Belgium
Alma mater	Moscow State University (1977)
Awards	Dantzig Prize, 2000 John von Neumann Theory Prize, 2009 EURO Gold Medal, 2016 The WLA Prize in Computer Science or Mathematics, 2023[1]
Scientific career
Fields	Convex optimization, Semidefinite programming, Nonlinear programming, Numerical analysis, Applied mathematics
Institutions	UCLouvain National Research University Central Economic Mathematical Institute
Doctoral advisor	Boris Polyak

Yurii Nesterov is a Russian mathematician, an internationally recognized expert in convex optimization, especially in the development of efficient algorithms and numerical optimization analysis. He is currently a professor at the University of Louvain (UCLouvain).