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Dr. TOH Kim-Chuan
Provost's Chair, Professor, Department of Mathematics, National University of Singapore
Other Affiliations: Institute of Operations Research and Analytics, NUS Institute of Data Science, NUS Department of Analytics & Operations (courtesy appointment) Department Statistics and Applied Probability (courtesy appointment)
Address: Blk S17, 10 Lower Kent Ridge Road, Singapore 119076, Singapore Phone: (65) 65162935 Email: mattohkc..........@..........nus.edu.sg

SDPT3: a MATLAB software for semidefinite-quadratic-linear programming.
SDPNAL+: a MATLAB software for semidefinite programming with bound constraints. A collection of standard form SDP instances in SDPT3 format is also available.
SuiteLasso: a MATLAB software for lasso regularized linear least squares problems based on a semismooth Newton augmented Lagrangian method.
DWDLarge: a MATLAB software for large scale distance weighted discrimination problems.
NNLS: a MATLAB software for nuclear norm regularized least squares problems based on an accelerated proximal gradient method.
BBCPOP: a MATLAB software for A Sparse Doubly Nonnegative Relaxation of Polynomial Optimization Problems with Binary, Box and Complementarity Constraints.

Matrix Optimization Problems: algorithms, applications, and theory. In particular, large scale semidefinite programming.
Fast algorithms for large scale statistical and machine learning problems.
Iterative methods for large linear systems of equations, especially those arising in optimization.

(2018) Beale-Orchard-Hays Prize, triennial award for Excellence in Computational Mathematical Programming, Mathematical Optimization Society.
(2018) SIAM Fellow, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics.
(2018) University Research Recognition Award, National University of Singapore.
(2017) Farkas Prize, INFORMS Optimization Society.
(2010) Topical Speaker, SIAM Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, USA, July 2010.
(2006) Semi-plenary Speaker, 19th International Symposium on Mathematical Programming, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, August 2006.
(2003) Outstanding Researcher Award, National University of Singapore.
(1999) Householder Best Dissertation Award (Honorable Mention).
(1995) IMA Leslie Fox Prize for Numerical Analysis (Second place).

[2019] Cluster co-chair (Big data and machine learning), ICCOPT 2019, Berlin.
[2019-present] Member, SIAM Journal Committee, SIAM.
[2019-present] Associate Editor, ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software, ACM.
[2018-present] Associate Editor, Mathematical Programming Series B, Springer.
[2014-present] Subject Editor: Optimization and Engineering, Springer.
[2013-present] Editor, Pacific Journal of Mathematics for Industry, Springer.
[2012-present] Editorial Board Member: Foundations and Trends in Optimization, Now Publishers, Netherlands.
[2008-present] Area Editor (convex optimization), Mathematical Programming Computation, a journal of the Mathematical Optimization Society.
[2007-present] Associate Editor, SIAM Journal on Optimization.

[2014-2016] Secretary, SIAM Activity Group on Optimization, SIAM.
[2010-2013] Editor, Journal of Math-for-Industry.
[2010-2016] Editor, Numerical Algebra, Control and Optimization, a journal published by American Institute of Mathematical Sciences.
[2016] Prize Committee, Best Paper Prize for Young Reseacher, The 5th International Conference on Continuous Optimzation, Tokyo, Japan, August 2016.
[2016] Cluster Co-Chair (convex and nonsmooth optimization), The 5th International Conference on Continuous Optimzation, Tokyo, Japan, August 2016.
[2016] Summer School Lecturer, The 5th International Conference on Continuous Optimzation, Tokyo, Japan, August 2016.
[2015] Course Instructor (joint with Defeng Sun), Large scale optimization and computing, Nankai University, July 2015.
[2014] Symposium Advisory Committee of the Mathematical Optimization Society for 2018 ISMP.
[2012] Cluster Co-Chair (conic programming), The 21th International Symposium on Mathematical Programming, Berlin, Germany, August 2012.
[2011] Organizing Committee, SIAM Conference on Optimization, Darmstadt, Germany, May 2011.
[2010] Organizing Committee, Numerical Methods for Continuous Optimization, IPAM Workshop, UCLA, October 2010.
[2009] Cluster Co-Chair (conic optimziation), The 20th International Symposium on Mathematical Programming, Chicago, USA, August 2009.
[2007] Program Committee, Second International Conference on Continuous Optimization, Hamilton, Canada, August 2007.