Jean Bernard Lasserre

I graduated from "Ecole Nationale Superieure d'Informatique et Mathematiques Appliquees" [(ENSIMAG](http://www-ensimag.imag.fr/)) in Grenoble, then got my PhD (1978) and "Doctorat d'Etat" (1984) degrees both from [Paul Sabatier University](http://www.ups-tlse.fr/) in Toulouse (France). I have been at [LAAS-CNRS](http://www.laas.fr/) in Toulouse since1980, where I am currently Directeur de Recherche. I am also a member of [IMT](http://www.math.ups-tlse.fr/), the Institute of Mathematics of Toulouse and associate faculty of Toulouse school of Economics (TSE). I was a one year visitor (1978-79 and 1985-86) at the Electrical Engineering Dept. of the University of California at [Berkeley ](http://www.berkeley.edu/)with a fellowship from [INRIA](http://www.inria.fr/) and [NSF.](http://www.nsf.gov/) I have done several one-month visits to Stanford University [(Stanford, ](http://www.stanford.edu/)California), the Massachusetts Institute of Technology [(MIT](http://www.mit.edu/), Cambridge), the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute [(MSRI](http://www.msri.org/), Berkeley), the Fields Institute [(Fields](http://www.fields.utoronto.ca/), Toronto), the Institute for Mathematics and its Applications [(IMA](http://www.ima.umn.edu/), Minneapolis), the Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics [(IPAM](http://www.ipam.ucla.edu/), UCLA), Cinvestav-IPN [(Cinvestav](http://www.cinvestav.mx/), Mexico), Leiden University [(Leiden](http://www.leidenuniv.nl//), The Netherlands), the Tinbergen Institute [(Tinbergen](http://www.tinbergen.nl/home.html), Amsterdam, The Netherlands), the University of Adelaide [(Adelaide](http://www.adelaide.edu.au/), Australia), the University of South Australia [(UniSA](http://www.unisa.edu.au/), Adelaide), the University of New South wales [(UNSW](http://www.unsw.edu.au/), Sydney), the University of British Columbia [(UBC](http://www.ubc.ca/), Vancouver). Awards & distinctions: \- 2021 Grand Prix INRIA-Académie des Sciences \- 2019 ISSAC' 20109 Distinguished Paper Award (Beijing, July 2019) with F. Bréhard & M. Joldès. \- 2018: Invited Speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM 2018), Rio de Janeiro, August 2018. Section 16: Optimal Control & Optimization. \- 2015 [John von Neumann Theory prize](https://www.informs.org/Recognize-Excellence/INFORMS-Prizes-Awards/John-von-Neumann-Theory-Prize) of the [INFORMS society](https://www.informs.org/). \- 2015 [Khachiyan prize](https://www.informs.org/Community/Optimization-Society/Optimization-Society-Prizes/Khachiyan-Prize/2015) of the [Optimization Society](https://www.informs.org/Community/Optimization-Society) of [INFORMS](https://www.informs.org/). \- 2009 [Lagrange prize](http://www.mathprog.org/?nav=lagrange) in Continuous optimization (awarded jointly every 3 years by [SIAM](http://www.siam.org/) and the [Mathematical Optimization Society](http://www.mathopt.org/)). \- SIAM Fellow (class 2014) \- 2014 Laureate of an [ERC-Advanced Grant](http://erc.europa.eu/advanced-grants) from the [European Research Council](http://erc.europa.eu/) (ERC) for the [TAMING project](http://taming.laas.fr/).