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I am an Associate Professor at the Institute of Mathematics and Statistics of the Federal University of Goias in Brazil. I received my Ph.D. degree in Mathematics from the National Institute of Pure and Applied Mathematics (IMPA) in Brazil in 2009, under the supervision of Prof. Alfredo Noel Iusem from IMPA and Prof. Regina Sandra Burachik from UniSA-Aus. My Ph.D. thesis focused on the area of Nonsmooth Optimization, specifically on subgradient methods, generalized augmented Lagrangian methods, and duality.

During my Ph.D. program, I spent one year (2008) conducting research at the University of South Australia in Adelaide, Australia, under the supervision of Prof. Regina Sandra Burachik. In 2015, I participated in a postdoc program at the Stewart School of Industrial & Systems Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology, under the supervision of Prof. Renato D.C. Monteiro. During this time, my research focused on the iteration-complexity of first-order methods, particularly accelerated Nesterov's method, Conditional gradient method, and ADMM.

My current research interests include nonsmooth optimization, proximal point-type methods, iteration-complexity analysis, augmented Lagrangian method,  and first-order algorithms for multiobjective (vector) optimization.

 Contact:

IME-Instituto de Matemática e Estatística, Universidade Federal de Goiás
Campus II - 74001-970 - Goiânia, GO - Brazil 
Phone: +55 (62) 35211208 Fax: +55 (62) 35211180

E-mail: jefferson@ufg.br