Nemirovski, Arkadi: - Arkadi Nemirovski is the John P. Hunter, Jr. Chair and Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Georgia Tech. He has co-authored six optimization textbooks including this one, and he has received many rewards for his contributions to the field, including the 1982 MPS-SIAM Fulkerson Prize (with L. Khachiyan and D. Yudin), the 1991 MPS-SIAM Dantzig Prize (with M. Grotschel), the 2003 INFORMS John von Neumann Theory Prize (with M. Todd), the 2019 SIAM Norbert Wiener Prize (with M. Berger), and the 2023 WLA Prize (with Yu. Nesterov). His research focuses on convex optimization (algorithmic design and complexity analysis, optimization under uncertainty, engineering applications) and nonparametric statistics. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and National Academy of Sciences.