Daniel Bienstock
Liu Family Professor of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research and Professor of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics, Dept Industrial Eng & Oper Res

My Contact Info

342 SW Mudd, Mail Code: 4704, United States
Office hours: To schedule an appointment, email Professor Bienstock.

+1 212 854 3407
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http://www.columbia.edu/~dano/

Daniel Bienstock

Research Interest

Smart Electric Energy


Professor Daniel Bienstock first joined Columbia University's?Industrial Engineering and Operations Research Department in 1989. He?received his PhD in Operations Research from MIT. ?His research?focuses on?optimization and high-performance computing. ?A second focus of his research?involves the use of computational mathematics in the analysis and control?of power grids, especially the study of vulnerabilities and of cascading?blackouts.
Prior to joining Columbia University, Professor Bienstock was in the?combinatorics and optimization research group at Bellcore. He has also?participated in collaborative research with several industrial?partners. ?He has published in journals such as Mathematical?Programming, SIAM J. of Computing and SIAM J. on?Optimization, Math. of OR and Operations Research; and in conferences such as?IPCO, STOC, SODA, CDC and Allerton. ?He received the 2013 INFORMS?Fellow award, a?Presidential Young Investigator award, and an IBM Faculty award; he?gave a plenary address at the 2005 SIAM Optimization Conference and a?semi-plenary at the 2006 ISMP conference.