Principal Investigator Jacob White
Co-investigators Alexandre Megretski , Luca Daniel
The enormous advances in both interior-point-based, convex optimization and fast methods for three-dimensional simulation are making development of design tools that perform automatic structural optimization much more feasible. We are developing strategies for coupling fast simulation and interior-point optimization for applications such as biomolecule design, nanophotonics, and optical semiconductor process inspection. The approaches include using Hession-implicit methods in which the simulation and optimization occur in parallel and strategies in which a detailed simulation model is used to generate a parameterized reduced order model.