Jon Lee, Professor, Ph.D. , Cornell University, 1986.

Recent IOE courses taught:

Office: 1831 IOE

Phone: (734) 615-7259

Web page: http://umich.edu/~jonxlee

Jon's research focus is on nonlinear discrete optimization (NDO). Many practical engineering problems have physical aspects which are naturally modeled through smooth nonlinear functions, as well as design aspects which are often modeled with discrete variables. Research in NDO seeks to marry diverse techniques from classical areas of optimization, for example methods for smooth nonlinear optimization and methods for integer linear programming, with the idea of successfully attacking natural NDO models for practical engineering problems.