Faculty Profiles

Angelia Nedich received her B.S. degree from the University of Montenegro (1987) and M.S. degree from the University of Belgrade (1990), both in Mathematics. She received her Ph.D. degrees from Moscow State University (1994) in Mathematics and Mathematical Physics, and from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (2002). She has been at the BAE Systems Advanced Information Technology from 2002-2006. In Fall 2006, as Assistant Professor, she has joined the Department of industrial and Enterprise Systems Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA. 

Her general interest is in optimization including fundamental theory, models, algorithms, and applications.

Her current research interest is focused on large scale convex optimization, distributed multi-agent optimization, and duality theory with applications in decentralized optimization. She received an NSF Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award in 2008 in Operations Research.