Frank E. Curtis

NonOpt: Nonconvex, Nonsmooth Optimizer NonOpt, a C++ software package for minimizing locally Lipschitz objective functions, is presented. The software is intended primarily for minimizing objective functions that are nonconvex and/or nonsm...

Excited to share a new paper about our open-source C++ software for solving nonconvex, nonsmooth optimization problems...

arxiv.org/abs/2503.22826

Wait. The funky chicken isn't still hip?

Grimsnes, Iceland, last night #northernlights

Pride comes before the fall.

Extremely proud of Qi Wang who defended her dissertation yesterday entitled "Inexact and Stochastic Large-Scale Nonlinear Optimization." In January she'll be starting a postdoctoral researcher position at the University of Michigan with Uday Shanbhag. Expect to hear more about her in the future!

Not all humans are the same. Some take the time for introspection. Others don't. You get points here at least!

I only buy what Instagram influencers tell me to, not what I see irl

Thanks to Oliver Hinder and the Department of Industrial Engineering at the University of Pittsburgh for hosting me and letting me share our recent work on stochastic algorithms for constrained optimization and informed machine learning.