Coralia Cartis is a Romanian mathematician at the University of Oxford whose research interests include compressed sensing, numerical analysis, and regularisation methods in mathematical optimization. At Oxford, she is a Professor in Numerical Optimization in the Mathematical Institute, and a tutorial fellow of Balliol College.^[1]

Born in Cluj-Napoca, Romania,^[2] Cartis earned a bachelor's degree in mathematics from Babeș-Bolyai University,^[3] and completed her PhD in 2005 at the University of Cambridge. Her dissertation, On Interior Point Methods for Linear Programming, was supervised by Michael J. D. Powell.^[4] In the same year, she was one of the Second Prize winners of the Leslie Fox Prize for Numerical Analysis.^[5]

After working as a researcher at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory and a postdoctoral researcher at Oxford, she became a lecturer at the University of Edinburgh in 2007. She took her present position at Oxford in 2013.^[3]

In 2018 she became a member of the scientific board of the Smith Institute for Industrial Mathematics and System Engineering,^[6] and was a plenary speaker at the 16th EUROPT Workshop on Advances in Continuous Optimization in Spain.^[7]

Cartis was elected to the 2023 Class of SIAM Fellows.^[8]

• Cartis, Coralia; Gould, Nicholas I. M.; Toint, Philippe L. (2011). "Adaptive cubic regularisation methods for unconstrained optimization. Part I: motivation, convergence and numerical results". Mathematical Programming. 127 (2): 245–295. doi:10.1007/s10107-009-0286-5.
• Boumal, Nicolas; Absil, P-A; Cartis, Coralia (2019-01-25). "Global rates of convergence for nonconvex optimization on manifolds". IMA Journal of Numerical Analysis. 39 (1): 1–33. arXiv:1605.08101. doi:10.1093/imanum/drx080.
• Cartis, C.; Gould, Nicholas I. M.; Toint, Ph. L. (2022). Evaluation complexity of algorithms for nonconvex optimization: theory, computation, and perspectives. Philadelphia: Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics. ISBN 978-1-61197-698-4. OCLC 1295352789.