Faculty Profiles

Jong-Shi Pang joined the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign as the Caterpillar Professor and Head of the Department of Industrial and Enterprise Systems Engineering in August 2007.  Prior to this, he held the position of the Margaret A. Darrin Distinguished Professor in Applied Mathematics in the Department of Mathematical Sciences and was a Professor of Decision Sciences and Engineering Systems at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute from 2003 to 2007. He was a Professor in the Department of Mathematical Sciences at the Johns Hopkins University from 1987 to 2003, an Associate Professor and then Professor in the School of Management from 1982 to 1987 at the University of Texas at Dallas, and an Assistant and then an Associate Professor in the Graduate

School of Industrial Administration at Carnegie-Mellon University from 1977 to 1982.

Professor Pang was a winner of the 2003 George B. Dantzig Prize awarded jointly by the Mathematical Programming Society and the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics for his work on finite-dimensional

variational inequalities, and a co-winner of the 1994 Frederick W. Lanchester Prize awarded by the Institute for Operations Research and Management Science. Two of his publications have received best paper awards.  He is

an ISI Highly Cited Researcher in the Mathematics Category between 1980--1999; he has published 3 widely cited monographs and more than 100 scholarly journals in top peer reviewed journals. Dr. Pang is a member in the inaugural 2009 class of Fellows of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics.

Professor Pang has broad research interests in the foundation and applications of optimization and equilibrium to engineering and economics.  Lying at the heart of such interests are the formulation and understanding of mathematical models for applied problems and the development and analysis of solution methods for solving these models.  Some of his most recent research topics include: the novel subject of differential variational inequalities, nonsmooth dynamical systems, the global solution of certain nonconvex optimization problems with disjunctive constraints, frictional contact problems and their optimization, dynamic traffic equilibrium problems, game-theoretic models in communication networks, electricity markets and supply chain systems.

Research in Optimization and Equilibria

Contact Information
Office: 115 Transportation Building
Mailing Address:
117 Transportation Building MC-238
104 S. Mathews Ave.
Urbana IL 61801
Phone: (217) 244-5703
Fax: (217) 244-5705
e-mail: jspang at illinois.edu