Author: Soren S Nielson

ANDREA CONSIGLIO is professor of Mathematical Finance at the University of Palermo, Italy. He has held positions at the University of Calabria and at the University of Cyprus. He has participated in consultancy projects with the Banca della Svizzera Italiana, Switzerland and Prometeia, Italy. He has co-authored one book and numerous articles for various leading academic journals. In 2006 he was awarded the EURO Excellence in Practice Award, jointly with Stavros A. Zenios and Flavio Cocco. His research interests encompass many areas in the field of financial modeling and computational finance. He holds a Ph D in applied mathematics to finance and economics. SØREN NIELSEN (1959-2003) was an Associate Professor in the Department of Informatics and Mathematical Modeling at the Technical University of Denmark. He worked at the World Bank and the University of Texas at Austin. He held degrees in computer science and a Ph D in decision sciences from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. STAVROS A. ZENIOS is Professor of Finance and Management Science at the University of Cyprus, Director of the HERMES European Centre of Excellence on Computational Finance and Economics, and Senior Fellow at the Wharton Financial Institutions Centre of the University of Pennsylvania. He has co-authored more than 130 articles in some of the premier journals in the filed, serves on the editorial board of six journals, and received numerous awards for his research and publications. His previous books include Practical Financial Optimization: Decision Making for Financial Engineers (Blackwell Publishing, 2007); Performance of Financial Institutions: Efficiency, Innovation, Regulation (Cambridge University Press, 2000); Parallel Optimization: Theory, Algorithms, and Applications (Oxford University Press, 1997); and Financial Optimization (Cambridge University Press, 1996).