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Andreas Waechter

Professor of Industrial Engineering & Management Sciences

Contact

2145 Sheridan Road
Tech D235
Evanston, IL 60208-3109

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Website

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Departments

Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences

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Education

Ph.D., Chemical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh,PA

M.S. Mathematics, University of Cologne, Germany


Research Interests

Large-scale nonlinear continuous optimization; mixed-integer nonlinear optimization; open source software implementation; application of optimization algorithms to industrial and scientific problems


Selected Publications

  • Vecchi, Edoardo; Kardoš, Juraj; Lechekhab, Malik; Wächter, Andreas; Horenko, Illia; Schenk, Olaf, Structure-exploiting interior-point solver for high-dimensional entropy-sparsified regression learning, Journal of Computational Science (2024).
  • Ospina, Juan; Fobes, David M.; Bent, Russell; Wachter, Andreas, Modeling and Rapid Prototyping of Integrated Transmission-Distribution OPF Formulations with PowerModelsITD.jl, IEEE Transactions on Power Systems (2024).
  • Curtis, Frank E.; Molzahn, Daniel K.; Tu, Shenyinying; Wachter, Andreas; Wei, Ermin; Wong, Elizabeth, A Decomposition Algorithm with Fast Identification of Critical Contingencies for Large-Scale Security-Constrained AC-OPF, Operations Research (2023).
  • Aravena, Ignacio; Molzahn, Daniel K.; Zhang, Shixuan; Petra, Cosmin G.; Curtis, Frank E.; Tu, Shenyinying; Wächter, Andreas; Wei, Ermin; Wong, Elizabeth; Gholami, Amin; Sun, Kaizhao; Sun, Xu Andy; Elbert, Stephen T.; Holzer, Jesse T.; Veeramany, Arun, Recent Developments in Security-Constrained AC Optimal Power Flow, Operations Research (2023).
  • Avci, Harun; Nelson, Barry L.; Song, Eunhye; Wächter, Andreas, Using Cache or Credit for Parallel Ranking and Selection, ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation (2023).
  • Izadinia, Niloufar; Ramyar, Elham; Alzayer, Maytham; Carr, Stephen H.; Cusatis, Gianluca; Dwivedi, Vidushi; Garcia, Daniel J.; Hettiarachchi, Missaka; Massion, Thomas; Miller, William M.; Wächter, Andreas, A versatile optimization framework for sustainable post-disaster building reconstruction, Optimization and Engineering (2023).
  • Horenko, Illia; Vecchi, Edoardo; Kardoš, Juraj; Wächter, Andreas; Schenk, Olaf; O'Kane, Terence; Gagliardini, Patrick; Gerber, Susanne, On cheap entropy-sparsified regression learning, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (2023).
  • Pena-Ordieres, Alejandra; Molzahn, Daniel K.; Roald, Line A.; Wachter, Andreas, DC Optimal Power Flow with Joint Chance Constraints, IEEE Transactions on Power Systems 36(1):147-158 (2021).