Adrian Lewis

Adrian Stephen Lewis (born 1962 in England) is a British-Canadian mathematician, specializing in variational analysis and nonsmooth optimization.

Education and career At the University of Cambridge he graduated with B.A. in mathematics in 1983, M.A. in 1987, and Ph.D. in engineering in 1987. His doctoral dissertation is titled Extreme point methods for infinite linear programming. Lewis was a postdoc at Dalhousie University. In Canada he was a faculty member at the University of Waterloo from 1989 to 2001 and at Simon Fraser University from 2001 to 2004. and for Mathematika. He has been a member of the editorial boards of Mathematics of Operations Research, the SIAM Journal on Optimization, the SIAM Journal on Matrix Analysis and Applications, the SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization, and the MPS/SIAM Series on Optimization.

Lewis holds British and Canadian citizenship and permanent residency in the USA. 2003 – Lagrange Prize for Continuous Optimization from SIAM and the Mathematical Programming Society 2009 – Fellow of SIAM 2014 – Invited Speaker, International Congress of Mathematicians at Seoul 2018 – INFORMS Computing Society Prize (with James V. Burke, Frank E. Curtis, and Michael L. Overton) 2020 – John von Neumann Theory Prize from INFORMS