Pengcheng Xie (Perry)

Biography

Pengcheng Xie works for Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in the United States as a postdoctoral scholar working with Prof. Stefan Wild, specializing in computational mathematics, mathematical optimization, machine learning, and numerical analysis. He holds a PhD from the Chinese Academy of Sciences advised by Prof. Ya-xiang Yuan. Pengcheng has published in major journals including SIAM Journal on Optimization, IMA Journal of Numerical Analysis, Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics, Journal of the Operations Research Society of China, Chinese Annals of Mathematics, and American Control Conference, and organized/presented at SIAM CSE 2025, SIAM NCC 2024, ISMP 2024, SIAM NCC2024, ICIAM 2023, and CSIAM 2022.

Lucky and young milestones

Gold Award, China Southeast Mathematical Olympiad, age 14.

Gifted (Talented) Young Student, admitted to a Top-9 Chinese university, age 14.

Hua Loo-keng PhD Prize/Scholarship, Chinese Academy of Sciences, age 20.

President of a SIAM student chapter, age 21.

Invited Speaker, Computational Mathematics Seminar, University of Oxford, age 25.

Postdoctoral Scholar at LBNL, age 25.

Selected Honors

SIAM-NCC Early Career Travel Award, Sept. 2024

Hua Loo-keng Prize/Scholarship, 2019-2024

CAS AMSS President Prize/Scholarship, Sept. 2023

Financial Support Program of ICIAM 2023, Apr. 2023

Meritorious Winner of the Mathematical Contest in Modeling (MCM), Team leader, Jun. 2017

Gold Award of China Southeast Mathematical Olympiad, Aug. 2014

Professional Activities & Service

Member of SIAM and MOS, 2019-

Organizer of minisymposium on Advances in Derivative-Free Optimization for Computational Science and Engineering in the 2025 SIAM Conference on Computational Science & Engineering (CSE25)

Editor and referee of Applied and Computational Mathematics, 2024-2027

Referee of Mathematical Programming Computation, IMA Journal of Numerical Analysis, Optimization, Journal of the Operations Research Society of China, The International Conference on Mechanics, Electronics, Automation and Automatic Control (for the optimization field), Jordan Journal of Mathematics and Statistics, Applied Mathematics-A Journal of Chinese Universities, Asian Journal of Pure and Applied Mathematics

President of CAS SIAM Student Chapter, 2021-2022

Founding Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Zhufeng (Fundamental Science), supported by the Ministry of Education of China, 2018-

Team leader of my mathematical modeling teams and machine learning teams from 2016

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