Jorge Nocedal
Jorge Nocedal (born 1950) is an applied mathematician, computer scientist and the Walter P. Murphy professor at Northwestern University who in 2017 received the John Von Neumann Theory Prize.The motivation for his current algorithmic and theoretical research stems from applications in image and speech recognition, recommendation systems, and search engines.From 1974 to 1978, Nocedal studied at Rice University, where he obtained a PhD in mathematical sciences under the supervision of Richard A. Tapia.He held this appointment until 2012, before joining the Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences department, where he served as the David and Karen Sachs Professor and Chair from 2013 to 2017.[14] Nocedal was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2020 for contributions to the theory, design, and implementation of optimization algorithms and machine learning software.