Matthew Stuber

Assistant Professor, Director of Graduate Studies

PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2013)
BChE, University of Minnesota – Twin Cities (2007)
Current Research

• Process systems engineering: optimal design, design under uncertainty
• Global optimization
• Process improvement and intensification
• Renewable energy and process integration
• Desalination and water treatment

Previous Positions

• 2012-2016 Co-founder and director, WaterFX, Inc.
• 2007-2013 PhD Candidate, MIT

Awards and Honors

• AIChE CAST Division W. David Smith Jr. Graduate Publication Award (2018)
• Journal of Global Optimization Best Paper Award (2012)

Selected Publications

1. Gottlieb, R.X. and Stuber, M.D. Automatic Generation of GPU Kernels for Evaluators of McCormick-Based Relaxations and Subgradients. Mathematical Programming Computation. (2026). DOI: 10.1007/s12532-026-00339-w
2. Alston, D., Choi, J.W., Xu, P., and Stuber, M.D. EOptInterface.jl: Equation-Oriented Optimization Interface in Julia. Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research. 65(26), 13847-13861 (2026). DOI: 10.1021/acs.iecr.6c00186
3. Martin, J.D., Toh, K., Martin, M.R., Chen, P., Wang, C., Igarashi, K., Mpekris, F., Stylianopoulos, T., Stuber, M.D., Kataoka, K., and Cabral, H. Bone Marrow Vessels are Hyperpermeable to Macromolecules and Nanoscale Medicine in a Size-Dependent Manner. Journal of Controlled Release. 382:113669 (2025). DOI: 10.1016/j.jconrel.2025.113669
4. Gottlieb, R.X., Xu, P., and Stuber, M.D. Automatic Source Code Generation for Deterministic Global Optimization With Parallel Architectures. Optimization Methods & Software. 41(2), 308-346 (2024). DOI: 10.1080/10556788.2024.2396297
5. Nikkhah, H., Beykal, B., and Stuber, M.D. Comparative Life Cycle Assessment of Single-Use Cardiopulmonary Bypass Devices. Journal of Cleaner Production. 425, 138815 (2023). DOI: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2023.138815
6. Rastinejad, J., Putnam, S., and Stuber, M.D. Technoeconomic Assessment of Solar Technologies for the Hybridization of Industrial Process Heat Systems Using Deterministic Global Dynamic Optimization. Renewable Energy. 216, 119069 (2023). DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2023.119069
7. Wilhelm, M.E., and Stuber, M.D. Improved Convex and Concave Relaxations of Composite Bilinear Forms. Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications. 197, 174-204 (2023). DOI: 10.1007/s10957-023-02196-2
8. Wilhelm, M.E., Wang, C., and Stuber, M.D. Convex and Concave Envelopes of Artificial Neural Network Activation Functions. Journal of Global Optimization. 85, 569-594 (2023). DOI: 10.1007/s10898-022-01228-x
9. Wang, C., Degnan-Morgenstern, S., Martin, J.D., and Stuber, M.D. Optimal Therapy Design With Tumor Microenvironment Normalization. AIChE Journal. e17747 (2022). DOI: 10.1002/aic.17747
10. Wang, C., Wilhelm, M.E., and Stuber, M.D. Semi-Infinite Optimization with Hybrid Models. Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research. 61, 5239-5254 (2022). DOI: 10.1021/acs.iecr.2c00113
11. Gottlieb, R.X., Xu, Pengfei, and Stuber, M.D. Automatic Source Code Generation for Deterministic Global Optimization With Parallel Architectures. Optimization Methods & Software (2024), DOI: doi.org/10.1080/10556788.2024.2396297
12. Rastinejad, J., Putnam, S., and Stuber, M.D. Technoeconomic Assessment of Solar Technologies for the Hybridization of Industrial Process Heat Systems Using Deterministic Global Dynamic Optimization. Renewable Energy. 216, 119069 (2023), DOI: doi.org/10.1016/j.renene.2023.119069
13. Stuber, M.D. A Differentiable Model for Optimizing Hybridization of Industrial Process Heat Systems with Concentrating Solar Thermal Power. Processes. 6(7), 76 (2018). DOI: doi.org/10.3390/pr6070076
14. Stuber, M.D. Optimal Design of Fossil-Solar Hybrid Thermal Desalination for Saline Agricultural Drainage Water Reuse. Renewable Energy. 89, 552-563 (2016). DOI: doi.org/10.1016/j.renene.2015.12.025
15. Stuber, M.D., and P.I. Barton. Semi-Infinite Optimization with Implicit Functions. I&EC Research. 54(1), 307—317 (2015). DOI: doi.org/10.1021/ie5029123
16. Stuber, M.D., Sullivan, C., Kirk, S.A., Farrand, J.A., Schillaci, P.V., Fojtasek, B.D., and A.H. Mandell, Pilot Demonstration of Concentrated Solar-Powered Desalination of Subsurface Agricultural Drainage Water and Other Brackish Groundwater Sources. Desalination. 355, 189—196 (2015). DOI: doi.org/10.1016/j.desal.2014.10.037
17. Stuber, M.D., Scott, J.K., and P.I. Barton. Convex and Concave Relaxations of Implicit Functions. Optimization Methods and Software. 30(3), 424-460 (2014). DOI: doi.org/10.1080/10556788.2014.924514