Автор: Alexey Piunovskiy

Alexey Piunovskiy was born in Moscow, USSR, in 1954. He obtained his Ph D in 1981 from the Moscow State Institute of Electronics and Mathematics, and his DSc from the Moscow State Institute of Physics and Technology in 2000. Since then he has been at the University of Liverpool, where he is presently a Reader. His research interests include stochastic optimal control and constrained optimization.   Yi Zhang was born in Qingdao, PRC, in 1985. He obtained his Ph D in 2010 from the Department of Mathematical Sciences at the University of Liverpool, where he is currently a Lecturer. His research interests include stochastic models in operational research, Markov decision processes and their applications to problems in statistics and optimal control.