Ernesto G BirginErnesto Birgin is a professor in the Department of Computer Science at the Institute of Mathematics and Statistics of the University of São Paulo. He is a member of the editorial boards of the Journal of Global Optimization, Computational and AppliedMathematics, the Bulletin of Computational Applied Mathematics, Pesquisa Operacional, and Trends in Applied and Computational Mathematics. He has published over 50 papers on computational optimization and applications. Read More Read Less