Fernando Ordóñez
Assistant Professor
Industrial and Systems Engineering
Phone: (213) 821-2413
E-mail: fordon@usc.edu
Web:   http://www-rcf.usc.edu/~fordon/

Education
Dr. Ordóñez studied Mathematical Civil Engineering at the University of Chile, receiving his Engineering title in 1997. He received is Ph.D. in Operations Research from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2002.

Experience
Dr. Ordóñez worked for two years as a Research Engineer for the electric utility company ENDESA (Chile).

Research Interests

• Convex Optimization
• Condition number theory, its relevance to complexity of optimization, sensitivity analysis, and practical predictive power.
• Algorithms, high performance computing, and robust optimization.
• Applications of optimization: Pattern recognition, energy production planning, structural design

Recent Invited-Refereed Conference Presentations

• “Increasing security through communication and policy randomization in multiagent systems,” by P. Paruchuri, M. Tambe, F. Ordonez, S. Kraus. MSDM Workshop, AAMAS-06, Hakodate, Japan, May 2006.
• “Safety in multiagent systems by Policy Randomization,” by P. Paruchuri, D. Dini, M. Tambe, F. Ordonez, S. Kraus. SASEMAS workshop, AAMAS-05, Utrecht, Netherlands, July 2005. Received best paper award at the SASEMAS workshop.
• “Intentional Randomization for Single Agents and Agent-teams,” by P. Paruchuri, D. Dini, M. Tambe, F. Ordonez, S. Kraus. GTDT workshop, IJCAI-05, Edinburgh, Scotland, July 2005.

Recent Publications

• Behavioral measures and their correlation with IPM iteration counts on Semi-Definite Programming Problems,” R.M. Freund, F. Ordonez, and K.C. Toh. USC ISE Working paper #2005-02. To appear in Math Prog. B.
• “A Modeling Framework for Facility Location of Medical Services for Large-Scale Emergencies,” H. Jia, F. Ordonez, and M.M. Dessouky. USC ISE Working paper #2005-01. To appear in IIE Transactions.
• “On an Extension of Condition Number Theory to Non-Conic Convex Optimization,” by R.M. Freund and F. Ordonez. Math of OR, Vol. 30, No. 1, pp. 173–194, 2005.