Margaret A. Darrin Distinguished Professor in Applied Mathematics; Professor of Mathematical Sciences; Professor, Department of Decision Sciences and Engineering Systems

Education:

Ph.D. (Operations Research), Stanford University, 1976

Career Highlights:

The Margaret A. Darrin Distinguished Professor in Applied Mathematics, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York, September 2003 – present
Professor of Mathematical Sciences, The Johns Hopkins University, July 1987–August 2003
Program Director, Division of Mathematical Sciences, National Science Foundation, September 1999 – August 2001 (full time); December 2001 – August 2002 (part time)
Previously at the University of Texas at Dallas, Carnegie-Mellon University, and the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Selected Publications:

"Computing generalized Nash equilibria," Mathematical Programming, Series A, in revision

(with C.J. Day and B. Hobbs) "Properties of oligopolistic market equilibria in linearized DC power networks with arbitrage and supply function conjectures," in E.\ Sachs, editor, System Modeling and Optimization, [Proceedings of the IFIP TC7 20th Conference on System Modeling and Optimization, July 23-27, Trier, Germany], Kluwer Academic Publishers (2003) pp. 113--130.

(with M. Fukushima) "Quasi-variational inequalities, generalized Nash equilibria, and multi-leader-follower games," Computational Management Science 1 (2005) 21--56.

(with J.E. Harrington, B.F. Hobbs, A. Liu, and G. Roch) "Tacit collusive game solutions via optimization," Mathematical Programming, in print.

(with B. Hobbs) "Spatial oligopolistic equilibria with arbitrage, shared resources, and price function conjectures," Mathematical Programming, Series B 101 (2004) 57--94.

(with B.F. Hobbs), "Nash-Cournot equilibria in electric power markets with piecewise linear demand functions and joint constraints," Operations Research, submitted September 2004.

(with S. Leyffer) "On the global minimization of the value-at-risk," Optimization Methods and Software 19 (2004) 611--631.

(with T. Luo) "Analysis of iterative waterfilling algorithm for multiuser power control in digital subscriber lines," Special issue of the EURASIP Journal on Advanced Signal Processing Techniques for Digital Subscriber Lines, submitted December 2004.

(with J. Shen) "Strongly regular variational systems," IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, submitted January 2005.

(with J. Shen) "Linear complementarity systems: Zeno states," SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization, in print.

(with P. Song and V. Kumar) "A semi-implicit time-stepping model for frictional compliant contact problems," International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering 60 (2004) 2231--2261.

(with P. Song and V. Kumar) "Convergence of time-stepping methods for initial and boundary value frictional compliant contact problems," SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis, in revision

(with P. Song, J.C. Trinkle, and V. Kumar) "Design of Design of part feeding and assembly processes with dynamics," Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, New Orleans, Louisiana, April 2004 [Kayamora Best Automation Paper Award winner] (2004)

(with D.E. Stewart) "Differential variational inequalities," Mathematical Programming, Series A, in revision.

(with D.E. Stewart) "Solution dependence on initial conditions in differential variational inequalities," Set-Valued Analysis, submitted November 2004.

(with J.C. Trinkle and S. Berard) A time stepping scheme for quasistatic multibody systems.

(with Th. Yu) "Continuous M-estimators and their estimation by polynomials," SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis 42 (2004) 997--1017.

Contact Information:

Jong-Shi Pang
(518) 276-2994
pangj@rpi.edu