Johns Hopkins University Whiting School of Engineering

Daniel Robinson


Assistant Professor
Applied Mathematics and Statistics
sites.google.com/site/danielprobinson/ (primary)

Whitehead Hall 202B (office)
410-516-7582 (office)
daniel.p.robinson@jhu.edu (primary)

Staff Contact:
Ann Gibbins
agibbin1@jhmi.edu
410-516-5501

Education

Ph.D. 2007, University of California at San Diego
M.A. 2003, University of California at San Diego
B.A. 2001, James Madison University

Experience

2011: Assistant Professor, Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics, The Johns Hopkins University
2010-2011: Research Assistant, Department of Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences, Northwestern University
2008-2010: Research Visitor, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, England
2007-2010: Research Assistant, Oxford University, England
2005-2005: Consultant, Northrop Grumman

Research Areas

optimization and numerical analysis, with applications in optimal control, trajectory optimization, American options pricing in Finance, and machine/statistical learning.

Journal Articles

Gould, N.I.M., Robinson, D.P. (2011). A second-derivative SQP method with a trust-region-free predictor step. IMA Journal of Numerical Analysis.
Gould, N.I.M., Robinson, D.P. (2010). A second derivative SQP method: global convergence. SIAM J. Optim.. 20(4). 2023.
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Gould, N.I.M., Robinson, D.P., Thorne, H.S. (2010). On solving trust-region and other regularised subproblems in optimization. Mathematical Programming Computation. 2(1). 21-57.
Gill, P.E., Robinson, D.P. (2010). A primal-dual augmented Lagrangian. Computational Optimization and Applications. 47. 1-25.
Gould, N.I.M., Robinson, D.P. (2010). A second derivative SQP method: Local convergence and practical issues. SIAM J. Optim. 20(4). 2049-2079.

Presentations

Invited: Johns Hopkins University, Center for Imaging Science. Title: Matrix splitting methods for BQP and LCP, October 25, 2011
Invited: Johns Hopkins University, Applied Mathematics and Statistics. Title: Two-phase matrix splitting methods for BQP and LCP, September 29, 2011
Invited: Argonne National Laboratory, Mathematics and Computer Science Division. Title: Two-phase matrix splitting methods for BQP and LCP, July 27, 2011
Conference: SIAM Conference on Optimization. Where: Darmstadt, Germany. Title: LCP and SQP, May 18, 2011
Invited: University of San Diego, Mathematics and Computer Science. Title: Optimization in machine/statistical learning, March 10, 2011
Invited: Lehigh University, Industrial and Systems Engineering. Title: Using active-set phases to accelerate algorithms, March 1, 2011
Invited: Johns Hopkins University, Applied Mathematics and Statistics. Title: Using active-set phases to accelerate algorithms, February 17, 2011
Conference: International Conference on Continuous Optimization (ICCOPT), Santiago, Chile. Title: High-order methods for overcoming degeneracy in interior-point methods for quadratic programming, July 29, 2010
Invited: University of Warwick. Title: Recent advances in second derivative sequential quadratic programming methods, March 3, 2010
Invited: Trinity University, Mathematics Department. Title: An introduction to sequential quadratic programming methods, February 16, 2010
Invited: Edinburgh Research Group in Optimization (ERGO), Edinburgh. Title: Recent advances in second derivative sequential quadratic programming methods, February 10, 2010
Invited: Argonne National Laboratory, Mathematics and Computer Science Division. Title: Recent work in sequential quadratic programming methods, January 15, 2010
Conference: INFORMS annual meeting 2009, San Diego. Title: An interior-point trust-funnel algorithm for large-scale nonconvex optimization, October 13, 2009
Invited: Bath-RAL Numerical Analysis Day, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, UK. Title: Second derivative SQP methods for solving large nonlinear optimization problems, September 29, 2009
Conference: International Symposium of Mathematical Programming, Chicago. Title: S2QP - a second derivative SQP method for nonlinear optimization, August 24, 2009
Conference: Biennial Conference on Numerical Analysis, University of Strathclyde. Title: A trust-funnel algorithm for general nonlinear optimization, June 24, 2009

Committees

2011: Communications Committee, Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics