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Yurii Nesterov is a Belgian mathematician of Russian origin, internationally recognized expert in convex optimization especially in the development of efficient algorithms and numerical optimization analysis. He is currently professor at the Université catholique de Louvain (UCL).

Biography
In 1977, Yurii Nesterov graduated in applied mathematics at Moscow State University. From 1977 to 1992 he was a researcher at the Central Economic- Mathematical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Since 1993, he has been working at UCL, specifically in the Department of Mathematical Engineering from the Polytechnic School of Louvain, Center for Operations Research and Econometrics.

In 2009, Nesterov won the John von Neumann Theory Prize.

Academic work
Nesterov is most famous for his work in convex optimization, including his 2004 book, considered a canonical reference on the subject. His main novel contribution is an accelerated version of gradient descent that converges considerably faster than ordinary gradient descent.