Prof. Dr. Kees Ross
Dr. Kees Roos (1941) holds a chair on Optimization Technology at Delft University of Technology. From 1998 to 2002 he was a part-time professor at Leiden University. The past 20 years his research concentrated on interior-point methods for linear and convex optimization, at present with emphasis on semidefinite optimization and its applications. He was a (co-)author of several books and more than hundred papers in refereed journals, member of the editorial board of several journals, among them the SIAM Journal on Optimization, and secretary/treasurer of the SIAM Activity Group on Optimization.