Olvi L. Mangasarian, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Olvi L. Mangasarian

American mathematician

Date of Birth: 12-Jan-1934

Place of Birth: Baghdad, Baghdad Governorate, Iraq

Profession: computer scientist, mathematician

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Olvi Leon Mangasarian (born 12 January 1934) is the John von Neumann Professor Emeritus of Mathematics and Computer Sciences in Department of Mathematics, University of California, San Diego and a recognised expert on optimization, data mining, and classification.
In 2000, while professor in the Computer Science Department of the University of Wisconsin–Madison, he was awarded the Frederick W.
Lanchester Prize for pioneering work in introducing the use of Operations Research techniques to the field of data mining with a particularly notable application being to breast cancer diagnosis.