Paul Tseng

Paul Tseng
曾匀
Born(1959-09-21)September 21, 1959
CitizenshipUnited States and Canada
Alma materQueen's University (BSc)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (PhD)
Known forLarge-scale optimization
Convex optimization
Linear programming
Distributed computing
Network algorithms
Scientific career
FieldsOptimization, Mathematics, Network
InstitutionsUniversity of British Columbia
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
University of Washington
DisappearedAugust 13, 2009, (age 49)
Yunan province of China
StatusMissing for 15 years and 3 months

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]

  1. ^ Lawless, Jerald F. (3 March 2014). Statistics in Action: A Canadian Outlook. CRC Press. ISBN 9781482236248.