Daniel Bienstock

Daniel Bienstock is a professor in the Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research at Columbia University. His Alliance visiting professorship at École polytechnique (CNRS LIX), in a reciprocal exchange with Leo Liberti, focused on Alternating Current Optimal Power Flow (ACOPF) and related problems of secure power grid operation, including semidefinite programming relaxations and quadratically constrained quadratic programming. He also taught on integer and mixed-integer programming, power grid operations and high-performance optimization.