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Professor of Business Analytics
Tippie College of Business
Education
- PhD in Algorithms, Combinatorics, and Optimization, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2001
- BS in Mathematics, University of Georgia, 1997
Areas of Interest
- Mathematical optimization
- Operations research
Selected Awards & Honors
- Core Faculty Member of the Year, University of Iowa MBA, 2017
- Core Faculty Member of the Year, University of Iowa MBA, 2016
- G.R.E.A.T. Faculty Award (First Year), Des Moines Executive MBA Class of 2012, 2012
- Dean's Teaching Award in Management Sciences, Tippie College of Business, 2011
- Best Paper Award, Computational Optimization and Applications, 2009
- Honorable Mention, Young Researcher Competition, International Conference on Continuous Optimization, Mathematical Programming Society, 2004
- Martha and Dennis Hesse Research Fellow, 2004
- New Hot Paper recognition by ISI Essential Science Indicators, 2003
- Delta Sigma Pi Outstanding Faculty Award, 2002
- INFORMS Optimization Prize for Young Researchers, 2002
Selected Publications
- & (2017). A Branch-and-Bound Algorithm for Instrumental Variable Quantile Regression. Mathematical Programming Computation 9 471-497.
- & (2017). Robust Sensitivity Analysis of the Optimal Value of Linear Programming. Optimization Methods and Software 32 (6) 1187-1205.
- & (2016). A Two-Variable Analysis of the Two-Trust-Region Subproblem. SIAM Journal on Optimization 26 (1) 661-680.
- & (2016). Nearly Efficient Tuitions and Subsidies in American Public Higher Education. Economics of Education Review 55 182-197.
- (2015). A Gentle, Geometric Introduction to Copositive Optimization. Mathematical Programming Series B 151 (1) 89-116.
- & (2015). The Trust Region Subproblem with Non-Intersecting Linear Constraints. Mathematical Programming (Series A) 149 (1-2) 253-264.
- & (2014). A First-Order Smoothing Technique for a Class of Large-Scale Linear Programs. SIAM Journal on Optimization 24 (2) 598-620.
- (2014). Faster, but Weaker, Relaxations for Quadratically Constrained Quadratic Programs. Computational Optimization and Applications 59 (1) 27-45.
- , & (2014). Modifying Soyster's Model for the Symmetric Traveling Salesman Problem with Interval Travel Times. Far East Journal of Applied Mathematics 86 (2) 117-144.
- & (2014). Unbounded convex sets for non-convex mixed-integer quadratic programming. Mathematical Programming Series A 143 (1-2) 231-256.
Selected Presentations
- (2019, January) An Introduction to Semidefinite Programming for Combinatorial Optimization. Invited Lecture presented at Conference on Integer Programming and Combinatorial Optimization, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
- & (2019, January) Python or R or Both: Tools for Your Data Analytics Workflow. Invited Lecture presented at Practice and Experience in Advanced Research Computing, Chicago, Illinois.
- (2019, January) Robust Rankings for College Football. Invited Lecture
Selected Grants & Contracts
- Burer, Samuel A (Principal Investigator) CAREER: Computation, Theory, and Applications for Nonconvex Quadratic and Conic Optimization. Sponsored by National Science Foundation. Funded. January 1, 2006 - January 1, 2012.
- Burer, Samuel A (Principal Investigator) Collaborative Research: Theory and Applications for Nonconvex Quadratic and Conic Optimization. Sponsored by National Science Foundation. Funded. January 1, 2002 - January 1, 2005.
Professional Service
- INFORMS Computing Society, Board Membership, Professional, January 2017.
- Mathematical Optimization Society, Board Membership, Professional, August 2015.
Editorial & Review Activities
- SIAM Journal on Optimization, Associate Editor.