Sun Defeng

Education

• BSc (1989), MSc (1992) both from Department of Mathematics, Nanjing University, Nanjing
• PhD (1995) from Institute of Applied Mathematics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing [Supervisor: Professor Jiye Han

Recent Research Interests

• Sparse Newton Methods with Low Complexities
• Matrix Optimization (MatOpt): Theory, Algorithms, Software and Applications
• High-Dimensional Statistical Optimization
• Second Order Variational Analysis
• Risk Management and Computational Finance

Professional Activities

• President, The Hong Kong Mathematical Society (May 2020--).
• Organizing Committee Co-Chair and Local Organizing Committee Co-Chair, “SIAM Conference on Optimization (OP20)”, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, May 26-29, 2020.
• Program Committee Member, “The Sixth International Conference on Continuous Optimization (ICCOPT 2019)”, Berlin, August 5-8, 2019.
• Program Committee Member, “The Fifth International Conference on Continuous Optimization (ICCOPT 2016)”, Tokyo, August 6-11, 2016.
• Associate Editor, Mathematical Programming (Series A, August 2007 --; Series B, January 2014--December 2017).
• Associate Editor, SIAM Journal on Optimization (January 2012--).
• Associate Editor, Journal of the Operations Research Society of China (2012--).
• Associate Editor, Journal of Computational Mathematics (2017--).
• Associate Editor, Science China Mathematics (January 2018 --).
• Associate Editor, Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications (2021 --).
• Advisory Committee Member, Asia-Pacific Journal of Operational Research (January 2014--); editor-in-chief (October 2010 –December 2013).
• Society Membership: INFORMS, SIAM, MOS, AMS, CSIAM, HKMS and etc.