Professor Guoyin Li | UNSW Research

Fields of Research (FoR)

Applied Mathematics, Optimisation, Calculus of Variations and Control Theory, Analysis of Algorithms and Complexity, Functional Analysis

Biography

I received my Ph.D from The Chinese University of Hong Kong in Dec. 2007. I am currently a professor in the School of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of New South Wales. I was awarded an Australian Research Council Future Fellowship (for mid-career researchers) from 2014 to 2018, and the 2022 Australian Mathematical Society Medal from the Australian Mathematical Society. My area of interest is optimization, variational analysis,...view more

My Grants

Australian Research Council Discovery Grant (2025-2027), G. Li, V. Jeyakumar, B. Mordukhovich, R. Bot, Taming Hard Optimization in Measure Spaces for Modern Applications.
Australian Research Council Discovery Grant (2025-2027), V. Jeyakumar, G. Li, M. Dressler, I.M. Bomze, Quantifying Uncertainty of Risk-Aware Optimization for Safe Decision-Making.
Australian Research Council Discovery Grant (2021-2023), V. Jeyakumar, G. Li, J.B. Lasserre, M. Goberna and I. M. Bomze, Data-Driven Multistage Robust Optimization-the New Frontier in Optimization.
Australian Research Council Discovery Grant (DP190100555), 2019-2021, G. Li, B. Mordukhovich, R. Bot, Innovations in sparse optimisation: big data nonsmooth optimisation.
Australian Research Council Discovery Grant (DP180100745), 2018-2020, V. Jeyakumar, G. Li, J.B. Lasserre, L.Q. Qi and D. Henrion: New Mathematics for Multiextremal Semialgebraic Optimization and Diffusion Tensor Imaging.
Australian Research Council Future Fellowship (FT130100038), 2014-2018, G. Li, A new optimization approach for tensor extreme eigenvalue problems: modern techniques for multi-relational data analysis.
ARC Research Hub Project, 2017-2021, W. Gao, Y.X. Zhang and G. Li, Performance assessment and optimal design for nano and composite structures, under ARC Linkage Scheme and administered through the ARC Research Hub for Nanoscience-based construction material manufacturing (IH150100006).
UNSW Science Gold Star Grant, 2017, V. Jeyakumar, G. Li, C. Thai Doan: Numerically Certifiable Mathematics for Multi-Extremal Global Optimization.
Australian Research Council Discovery Grant (DP120100467), 2012-2014, V. Jeyakumar, G. Li and M. A, Goberna: New Theory and Methods for Robust Global Optimization: Modern Decision-Making under Uncertain Conditions.
Australian Research Council Discovery Grant (DP1092508), 2010-2013, V. Jeyakumar, G. Li, G. M. Lee, B.S. Mordukhovich and S. Kim, A new improved solution to global optimization over multivariate polynomials: Mathematical principles, numerical methods and selected applications.

My Qualifications

I received my Ph.D from The Chinese University of Hong Kong in Dec. 2007.

My Awards

[03/2025] Marguerite Frank Award for Best paper in EURO Journal on Computational Optimization 2024.
[02/2023] Fellow of Australian Mathematical Society
[12/2022] The 2022 Australian Mathematical Society Medal.
[2019 & 2020] Cited as the field leader in Mathematical Optimisation by the RESEARCH report in The Australian, which profiles the Top 250 researchers in Australia.
[11/2019]: Joint winner of the 2019 Journal of Global Optimization Best Paper Award, https://sites.google.com/site/jogobestpaper/
[11/2019]: 2019 International Consortium of Chinese Mathematicians (ICCM) Best Paper Award .
[01/2017] Optimization Letters (OPTL) Best Paper Award for 2015.
[01/2014-01/2018] Future Fellowship from Australian Research Council: Future fellowship is a four-year fellowship from Australian Research Council for outstanding mid-career researchers (5-15 years post-PhD)
[01/2017] UNSW Science Gold Star Award for the project ``Numerically Certifiable Mathematics for Multi-Extremal Global Optimization''.
[08/2013] Invited visiting fellowship from Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom.
[2011 & 2012] International Collaboration Award from Australian Research Council.
[01/2010-12/2013] Australian Postdoctoral Fellowship from Australian Research Council.

My Research Activities

Professional Activities

[Since 01/2023] Associate Editor of the journal "SIAM Journal on Optimization".
[Since 01/2020] Associate Editor of the Springer journal "Optimization Letters".
[Since 01/2016] Associate Editor of the Springer journal ``Journal of Optimization Theory and its Applications".
[Since 01/2015] Associate Editor of the Springer journal ``Mathematical Methods of Operations Research".
[07/2020 - 07/2021] Guest editor for the Topical Collection “Mathematics of Computation and Optimisation” (MoCaO) in the Springer Journal "Advances in Computational Mathematics".

Recent Invited Plenary Presentations

Special invited Lecture of MATRIX workshop Splitting Algorithms - Advances, Challenges, and Opportunities, Feb 2025 - 21 Feb 2025
Plenary speaker of 26th Midwest Optimization Meeting, MOM26, & Workshop on Large Scale Optimization and Applications, University of Waterloo, Canada, November 8-9, 2024.
Invited (plenary) speaker of Second Vienna Workshop on Computational Optimization 2023 (VWCO23) , University of Vienna, Austria, 15-17 March 2023.
Plenary speaker of XI International Seminar on Optimization and Variational Analysis, September 22-23, 2022, The Department of Mathematics at the University of Alicante.
The MoCaO Lectures: Data Science of Mathematics of Computation and Optimization (MoCaO), July 11-15, 2022, online (one of the three speakers, other speakers are Prof. Stephen Wright and Dr. Quoc Thong Le Gia).
Special Invited Lecture for RAMP Symposium on Mathematical Optimisation , Research Association of Mathematical Programming (RAMP) of the Operations Research Society of Japan, Oct. 7, 2022, online
One World Optimization Seminar (OWS): available on youtube, Dec. 7, 2020, online.
2019 The International Consortium of Chinese Mathematicians (ICCM), Best Paper Award Lecture, Dec. 16-18, Sanya, China.
The AMSI Optimise event (June 26-30, 2017) as a national plenary speaker: a five-day symposium inspiring industry and research collaboration, organized by Australian Mathematical Science Institute: 1 hour's presentation.
The international conference “Mathematical Optimisation Down Under (MODU2016)" as a plenary speaker (organized by Australian Mathematical Science Institute), 18-22 July 2016, Melbourne, Australia: 1 hour's presentation.
International Conference in Optimization Theory and its Applications (ALEL 2016) as an invited plenary speaker, 6-8, June 2016, Cartagena, Spain: 1 hour's presentation.
The 2014 International Conference on Tensors and Matrices and their application as an invited plenary speaker,, Suzhou, P.R. China, Dec. 17-20, 2014: 1 hour's presentation.