People

The ANSI team is highly interdisciplinary, leverages a wide variety of expertise, and brings together many organizations at Los Alamos National Laboratory. This list provides a brief summary of the key staff involved with ANSI.

Leadership Team

• Russell Bent - optimization algorithms (website, publications)
• Misha Chertkov - theoretical physics (website, publications)

Research Staff

• Art Barnes - power system engineering (website)
• Francesco Caravelli - theoretical physics (website, publications)
• Carleton Coffrin - optimization algorithms (website, publications)
• Magdalena Dale - electrical engineering (website)
• Deepjyoti Deka - machine learning and control (website, publications)
• Mary Ewers - infrastructure analysis (website, publications)
• David Fobes - experimental physics (website, publications)
• Hassan Hijazi - optimization algorithms (website, publications)
• Nathan Lemons - graph theory (website, publications)
• Andrey Lokhov - theoretical physics (website, publications)
• Yury Maximov - machine learning and optimization
• Michael McKerns - optimization algorithms (website)
• Sidhant Misra - machine learning and optimization (website, publications)
• Harsha Nagarajan - optimization and control theory (website, publications)
• Michael Rivera - experimental physics
• Kaarthik Sundar - optimization algorithms (website, publications)
• Byron Tasseff - optimization algorithms (website, publications)
• Marc Vuffray - information theory (website, publications)
• Anatoly Zlotnik - optimization and control theory (website, publications)

Postdocs & Students

• Smitha Gopinath - optimization algorithms (publications)
• Forrest Sheldon - theoretical physics (website, publications)
• Rohit Kannan - optimization algorithms (website, publications)
• Sai Krishna - optimization algorithms (website)
• Saif R. Kazi - optimization algorithms ([website] https://sites.google.com/andrew.cmu.edu/saif/home)

Collaborators

• Daniel Bienstock, Columbia University - optimization algorithms (website, publications)
• Line Roald, University of Wisconsin-Madison - power engineering (website, publications)
• Pascal Van Hentenryck, Georgia Institute of Technology - optimization algorithms (website, publications)
• Andreas Wächter - optimization algorithms (website, publications)

Alumni

• James Arnold, RS21 - geographic information systems (website)
• Scott Backhaus, National Institute of Standards and Technology - experimental physics (website, publications)
• Trevor Crawford, ERT Inc. - data analytics (website)
• Aric Hagberg, LANL - applied mathematics (website, publications)
• Miles Lubin, Google - optimization algorithms(website, publications)
• David Métivier, École Polytechnique - theoretical physics (website)
• Kostya Turitsyn, D.E. Shaw - theoretical physics (website, publications)
• Tillmann Weisser - applied mathematics (website)
• Haoxiang Yang - optimization algorithms (website)