Darinka Dentcheva (Bulgarian: Даринка Денчева) is a Bulgarian-American mathematician, noted for her contributions to convex analysis, stochastic programming, and risk-averse optimization.

She received her MsC and PhD degrees in mathematics from Humboldt University of Berlin (Germany) in 1981 and 1989, respectively.

[1] From 1982 to 1994 Dentcheva was with the Institute of Mathematics, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, in Sofia (Bulgaria).

In 1999–2000 she was a visiting professor at the Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering, Lehigh University.

Since 2000 Dentcheva has been with Stevens Institute of Technology, where she holds a position of Professor at the Department of Mathematical Sciences.