{"id":24,"date":"2016-10-03T18:03:25","date_gmt":"2016-10-03T18:03:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mitmgmtfaculty.mit.edu\/rfreund\/homepage\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T16:41:37","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T16:41:37","slug":"homepage","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/mitmgmtfaculty.mit.edu\/rfreund\/","title":{"rendered":"Homepage"},"content":{"rendered":"

Robert M. Freund<\/h1> <\/div> <\/div>
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I support and stand with people who are not of my race \u2014 in the academic community and elsewhere \u2014 in protest against hate, brutality, divisiveness, fear, indifference, inequality, and discrimination.<\/h2>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Robert Freund is the Theresa Seley Professor in Management Science at the MIT Sloan School of Management. He conducts research in large-scale optimization \u2013 both applied and theoretical \u2013 as well as\u00a0related mathematical systems. Freund teaches MBA courses in business analytics and quantitative methods, as well as advanced courses in\u00a0 optimization theory<\/span>. <\/span>Freund is the co-author, along with Dimitris Bertsimas, of the MBA textbook<\/span> Data, Models, and Decisions: the Fundamentals of Management Science.\u00a0Bio and CV can be found here.<\/a><\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

(You may also be looking for my name-fellow and colleague, Daniel Freund's website can be found here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<\/div>\t\t\tPublications\/Talks\/Collaborators<\/a> <\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Robert M. Freund<\/h1>\t\t\t
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I support and stand with people who are not of my race \u2014 in the academic community and elsewhere \u2014 in protest against hate, brutality, divisiveness, fear, indifference, inequality, and discrimination.<\/h2>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Robert Freund is the Theresa Seley Professor in Management Science at the MIT Sloan School of Management. He conducts research in large-scale optimization \u2013 both applied and theoretical \u2013 as well as\u00a0related mathematical systems. Freund teaches MBA courses in business analytics and quantitative methods, as well as advanced courses in\u00a0 optimization theory<\/span>. <\/span>Freund is the co-author, along with Dimitris Bertsimas, of the MBA textbook<\/span> Data, Models, and Decisions: the Fundamentals of Management Science.\u00a0Bio and CV can be found here.<\/a><\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

(You may also be looking for my name-fellow and colleague, Daniel Freund's website can be found here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<\/div>\t\t\tPublications\/Talks\/Collaborators<\/a>\t\t<\/div>\t\t

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New Online Course: Data Science and Analytics<\/h2>\t

MIT xPRO: Professional Certificate in Data Science and Analytics<\/a><\/p>\n

Taught by Profs. Freund, Farias, Levi, and Ramakrishnan<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

Three Recent Papers<\/h2>

\u201cThe Role of Level-Set Geometry on the Performance of PDHG for Conic Linear Optimization<\/a>,\u201d with Zikai Xiong, under revision.<\/p>\n

\"Computational Guarantees for Restarted PDHG for LP based on \u201cLimiting Error Ratios\u201d and LP Sharpness<\/a>,\u201d with Zikai Xiong, To appear in Mathematical Programing.<\/p>\n

\u201cUsing Taylor-approximated Gradients to Improve the Frank-Wolfe Method for Empirical Risk Minimization<\/a>,\u201d with Zikai Xiong,\u00a0SIAM Journal on Optimization<\/em>\u00a0Vol. 34, No. 3, pp. 2503\u20142534 (2024). [Additional Results and Extensions<\/a>]<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

Research Interests<\/h2>
  • Nonlinear optimization theory, applications, and computation -- current focus on algorithmic theory and practice of first-order methods<\/li>
  • Computational complexity of nonlinear optimization<\/li>
  • Interior-point methods in convex optimization<\/li>
  • Computational science<\/li>
  • Related mathematical systems<\/li>
  • Applied optimization in management and engineering<\/li>
  • Linear optimization<\/li>
  • Fixed-point methods<\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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