Roger J-B Wets, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Roger J-B Wets

mathematician

Date of Birth: 20-Feb-1937

Place of Birth: Belgium

Profession: mathematician, university teacher, statistician

Nationality: United States, Belgium

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

Roger Jean-Baptiste Robert Wets (born February 1937) is a "pioneer" in stochastic programming and a leader in variational analysis who publishes as Roger J-B Wets.
His research, expositions, graduate students, and his collaboration with R.
Tyrrell Rockafellar have had a profound influence on optimization theory, computations, and applications.
Since 2009, Wets has been a distinguished research professor at the mathematics department of the University of California, Davis.