John Emory Dennis, Jr. is a renowned American mathematician with major contributions in mathematical optimization. Dennis is currently a Noah Harding Professor Emeritus and Research Professor in the Department of Computational and Applied Mathematics at Rice University

Rice University

William Marsh Rice University, commonly referred to as Rice University or Rice, is a private research university located on a heavily wooded campus in Houston, Texas, United States...

 in Houston, Texas

Texas

Texas is the second largest U.S. state by both area and population, and the largest state by area in the contiguous United States.The name, based on the Caddo word "Tejas" meaning "friends" or "allies", was applied by the Spanish to the Caddo themselves and to the region of their settlement in...

. His research interests include Optimization in Engineering Design.

Education

• B.S.I.E. (1962) Engineering, University of Miami
  University of Miami
  The University of Miami is a private, non-sectarian university founded in 1925 with its main campus in Coral Gables, Florida, a medical campus in Miami city proper at Civic Center, and an oceanographic research facility on Virginia Key., the university currently enrolls 15,629 students in 12...
  
  , Florida
• M.S. (1964) Mathematics, University of Miami, Florida
• Ph.D. (1966) Mathematics, University of Utah
  University of Utah
  The University of Utah, also known as the U or the U of U, is a public, coeducational research university in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States. The university was established in 1850 as the University of Deseret by the General Assembly of the provisional State of Deseret, making it Utah's oldest...
  
  . Dissertation: "Variations on Newton's Method"