David Shanno

David F. Shanno was an American mathematician who specialized in mathematical optimization and operations research. He was born on April 19, 1938, and died in 2019, and he was professor emeritus at Rutgers University, associated with the Rutgers Center for Operations Research. He obtained his bachelor's degree in mathematics from Yale University in 1959, a master's degree from Carnegie-Mellon University in 1962 and his doctorate in 1967, and he held positions at the University of Chicago, the University of Toronto, the University of Arizona and the University of California, Davis before Rutgers. In 1970 he was one of the developers of the BFGS algorithm, a quasi-Newton method. He became a fellow of INFORMS in 2005 and shared the 1991 E.M.L. Beale - W.B. Orchard-Hayes Prize for Excellence in Computational Mathematical Programming.