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Subject toSubject to: Simge KüçükyavuzSimge Küçükyavuz is Chair and David A. and Karen Richards Sachs Professor in the Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences Department at Northwestern University. She is an expert in mixed-integer, large-scale, and stochastic optimization, with applications in complex computational problems across numerous domains, including social networks, computing and energy infrastructure, statistical learning, and logistics. Her research has been supported by multiple grants from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Office of Naval Research (ONR). She is an INFORMS Fellow, and the recipient of the NSF CAREER Award and the INFORMS Computing Society (ICS) Prize. She is the past cha...
2024-10-031h 06
Subject toSubject to: Timo BertholdTimo Berthold is a Director at FICO, leading the MIP research and development team of the FICO Xpress Solver. In additon, he is a lecturer at the Mathematical Optimization Department of TU Berlin, working of the intersection of academia and industry. Before joining FICO, Timo was a main developer of the open-source MIP and MINLP solver SCIP at Zuse Institue Berlin. Timo is an expert on all aspects of computational mixed-integer linear and nonlinear optimization, heuristic methods, and recently, the integration of ML methods into optimization solvers. He has published over 50 papers in this field, supervised many talented students...
2024-09-191h 07
Subject toSubject to: Marielle ChristiansenMarielle Christiansen is a professor of Operations Research at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. She is head of the Department of Industrial Economics and Technology Management with more than 230 employees. Her primary research interests concern development and implementation of optimization models and methods for industry related planning problems as regards transportation, logistics, and production. She is particularly interested in applications where maritime transportation and supply chain challenges are considered and has been involved in a number of shipping industry – sponsored projects. Her research within maritime transportation has resulted in numerous papers in journals like Computers and Operations Re...
2024-09-051h 30
Subject toSubject to: Pedro MunariDr. Pedro Munari is an Associate Professor at the Production Engineering Department of the Federal University of São Carlos in São Paulo, Brazil. He holds an M.Sc. and a Ph.D. in Computer Science and Computational Mathematics from the University of São Paulo. His Ph.D. Dissertation received the prestigious Doctoral Prize for the Best Dissertation from the Brazilian Society of Applied and Computational Mathematics. Dr. Munari has also held visiting scholar positions at the School of Mathematics of the University of Edinburgh (Scotland, UK), at the School of Industrial and Systems Engineering of the Geo...
2024-08-221h 32
Subject toSubject to: Michael FlorianMichael "Mike" Florian is Professor Emeritus of Computer Science and OR at the University of Montreal. He has more than 60 years of practical and academic experience working with OR problems related to the transportation of people and goods. Mike has published over 150 articles in scientific journals and conference proceedings on transportation research and OR. He was an associate editor of several journals, including Operations Research, Transportation Science, INFOR, Transportation Research Part B, to name a few. He was the founder of a company called INRO, whose transportation planning software packages are used in many countries worldwide. In 1990, he was...
2024-08-081h 23
Subject toSubject to: Alain ZemkohoAlain Zemkoho is an associate professor in operational research at the School of Mathematical Sciences within the University of Southampton where he is affiliated to the OR Group and CORMSIS. Prior to joining Southampton, he was a research fellow at the University of Birmingham (UK) and had previously worked as a research associate at the Technical University of Freiberg (Germany). He is an Alexander von Humboldt Experienced Fellow for 2024-2026, a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematics & Its Applications, a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, and had been a Fellow of the Alan Turing Institute for Data Science...
2024-07-251h 27
Subject toSubject to: Brian DentonBrian Denton is the Stephen M. Pollock Professor of Industrial and Operations Engineering in the Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering at the University of Michigan. His research interests are data-driven decision-making and optimization under uncertainty with applications to healthcare delivery, semiconductor supply chain management, and other industrial systems. He has a cross-appointment in the School of Medicine. He is a member of the Cancer Center and the Institute for Healthcare Policy and Innovation (IHPI) at the University of Michigan. He served as department chair from 2018-2023. Before joining the University of Michigan, he worked at IBM, Mayo Clinic...
2024-07-111h 39
Subject toSubject to: Robert FourerRobert Fourer is co-founder and President of AMPL Optimization and Professor Emeritus of Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences at Northwestern University. In collaboration with colleagues at Bell Laboratories, he initiated the design and development of AMPL, a widely used optimization language and system; he has also been a contributor to the NEOS Server and other efforts to make optimization services available over the Internet. He shared the Beale-Orchard-Hays Prize for NEOS, and the INFORMS Impact Prize in recognition of the influence of algebraic modeling languages for optimization. Bob contributed to the advancement of the simplex algorithm by introducing extensions...
2024-06-131h 17
Subject toSubject to: Candace YanoCandace ("Candi") Yano is a Distinguished Professor with a joint appointment between the Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research (IEOR) and the Operations and Information Technology Management group at the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley. She currently holds the Gary and Sherron Kalbach Chair in Business Administration and the Morris Chang Distinguished Professorship in the Management of Technology Innovation at UC Berkeley. She has served as department chair in the IEOR Department and as the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at Haas. In addition to her faculty positions, she currently serves as the Faculty Director for...
2024-05-301h 27
Subject toSubject to: Jan Karel LenstraJan Karel Lenstra is CWI Fellow and former general director of Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica, the national research institute for mathematics and computer science in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. His research interests are in combinatorial optimization, in particular scheduling, routing, complexity, and approximation. He was co-editor of fifteen books, including "The Traveling Salesman Problem", "History of Mathematical Programming", and "Local Search in Combinatorial Optimization". He has been chair of the Mathematical Optimization Society and of the Royal Dutch Mathematical Society. He has also been chair of Committees on Mathematics in Primary Education and on Informatics in Secondary Education of the Royal...
2024-05-161h 19
Subject toSubject to: Ted RalphsDr. Ted Ralphs received his Ph.D. in Operations Research from Cornell University in 1995. He is a professor in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISE) at Lehigh University and is co-founder and director of Lehigh's Laboratory for Computational Optimization Research at Lehigh (COR@L). He is also co-founder and board member of the COIN-OR Foundation, a non-profit foundation promoting the development of open source software for operations research, as well as the project manager for a variety of projects hosted in the COIN-OR open source software repository. He is the area editor for Software Tools at the...
2024-05-021h 27
Subject toSubject to: Martin GrötschelMartin Grötschel, born in 1948, studied mathematics at U Bochum (1969-1973), received his PhD in economics (1977) and his habilitation in Operations Research (1981) at U Bonn. He was professor of applied mathematics at U Augsburg 1982-1991, professor of information technology at TU Berlin and vice president/president of the Zuse Institute for Information Technology Berlin (ZIB) 1991-2015. Grötschel was the President of the German Mathematical Society (DMV) 1993-1994, Secretary General of the International Mathematical Union (IMU) 2007-2014, President of the Berlin Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities (BBAW) 2015-2020 and chaired the DFG Research Center MATHEON “Mathematics for Key Tech...
2024-04-181h 48
Subject toSubject to: Carola DoerrCarola Doerr, formerly Winzen, is a CNRS research director in the Computer Science department LIP6 of Sorbonne Université in Paris, France. Carola's main research activities are in the analysis of black-box optimization algorithms, both by mathematical and by empirical means. Specifically, she is very interested in controlling the choice and the configuration of black-box optimization algorithms all along the optimization process -- with and without Machine Learning techniques. She is equally interested in complexity results, running time bounds, good benchmarking practices, empirical evaluations, and practical applications of self-adjusting black-box optimization algorithms. Carola is associate editor of IEEE Transactions on E...
2024-04-041h 14
Subject toSubject to: Emilio CarrizosaEmilio Carrizosa is Full Professor of Statistics and Operations Research in the University of Seville, Spain. His research interests include: Industrial and Applied Mathematics; Data Science (Explainable and Fair Machine Learning, Supervised Classification and Regression), Mathematical Optimization and Operations Research (Mixed Integer Nonlinear Programming, Global Optimization, Vector Optimization). He is President of math-in, the Spanish Network of Industrial Mathematics (2021-), President of PET MSO-ED, the Spanish Platform for Technologies of Modelling, Simulation and Optimization in a Digital Environment (2023-), and has served as Director of IMUS, the Mathematical Institute of the University of Seville, President of SEIO, the Spanish...
2024-03-211h 27
Subject toSubject to: Shadi Sharif AzadehShadi Sharif Azadeh is an associate professor at Civil Engineering and Geosciences faculty and the co-director of SUM Lab (Sustainable Urban Multi-modal Mobility) at TU Delft. Previously, she worked as an assistant professor at Erasmus University Rotterdam, in the group of Operations Research and Logistics. She holds a PhD in Mathematics (operations research) from Polytechnique Montreal where she received doctorate excellency award at University of Montreal (CIRRELT) as well as Michael Florian Award for best PhD thesis research award in Canada. Her areas of expertise include integration of operations research with behavioural models for transport, mobility and logistics networks...
2024-03-071h 31
Subject toSubject to: Thomas StützleThomas Stützle is a research director of the Belgian F.R.S.-FNRS (National Science Foundation) working at the IRIDIA laboratory of Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Belgium. He received the Diplom (German equivalent of MSc. degree) in business engineering from the Universität Karlsruhe (TH), Germany in 1994, and his PhD and habilitation in computer science both from the Computer Science Department of Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany, in 1998 and 2004, respectively. He has co-authored three books among which are “Stochastic Local Search: Foundations and Applications” (Morgan Kaufmann) and “Ant Colony Optimization” (MIT Press), both being the main references in their res...
2024-02-221h 11
Subject toSubject to: Ignacio GrossmannIgnacio E. Grossmann is the R. R. Dean University Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering, and former department head at Carnegie Mellon University. He obtained his B.S. degree at the Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico City, in 1974, and his M.S. and Ph.D. at Imperial College in 1975 and 1977, respectively. He is a member and former director of the Center for Advanced Process Decision-making, an industrial consortium that involves about 20 petroleum, chemical, engineering, and software companies. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, and Fellow of AIChE and INFORMS. He has received the INFORMS Computing Society...
2024-02-081h 42
Subject toSubject to: Robert BixbyDr. Robert Bixby has a BS in IEOR from U.C. Berkeley (1968), and a PhD in OR from Cornell (1972). He has held academic positions at the University of Kentucky, Northwestern University, and Rice University. He is currently Noah Harding Professor Emeritus at Rice University and visiting Professor of Mathematics at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg. He co-founded CPLEX Optimization in 1987, and co-founded Gurobi Optimization in 2008, serving as CEO from 2008-2015. Dr. Bixby has published over fifty journal articles and is an acknowledged expert on the computational aspects of linear and integer programming. He has won the Beale-Orchard-Hays Prize of the Ma...
2023-12-072h 13
Subject toSubject to: Changhyun KwonChanghyun Kwon is an Associate Professor in Industrial and Systems Engineering at KAIST. His research aims to advance computational optimization methods for efficient transportation and logistics systems. His current focus is to improve the efficiency of heuristic and exact algorithms using machine-learning approaches to solve large-scale vehicle routing problems and mobility service operations problems. He received a Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering in 2008 from Penn State and a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from KAIST in 2000. His research has been published in Operations Research, Transportation Science, Transportation Research Part B, INFORMS Journal on Computing, etc. Before joining KAIST, he...
2023-11-231h 19
Subject toSubject to: Jeannette SongJing-Sheng Jeannette Song is the R. David Thomas Professor of Business Administration and a Professor of Operations Management at the Fuqua School of Business of Duke University. Professor Song holds a Ph.D. from Columbia University. She studies supply chain management and operations strategy, topics including supply chain inventory optimization and resilience strategies, Assemble-to Order systems and supply chain flexibility, dynamic pricing and inventory control, data-driven operational decision-making, supply chain digitization, e-commerce strategies and network design, and socially responsible operations. She has published numerous articles in leading academic journals, such as Management Science, Operations Research, and Manufacturing & Service Operations...
2023-11-091h 29
Subject toSubject to: Karla HoffmanKarla Hoffman is a Professor in the Systems Engineering and Operations Research Department at George Mason University (GMU) where she served as Chair for five years. She received her D.Sc. from George Washington University in operations research. Prior to her position at GMU, she worked as a mathematician in the Center for Applied Mathematics of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) where, in 1984, she was awarded the Applied Research Award. Her other awards include George Mason University's Distinguished Faculty Award, the INFORMS Fellows Award, the INFORMS George E. Kimball Medal and the INFORMS Edelman Prize. Recently...
2023-10-261h 33
Subject toSubject to: Paolo TothPaolo Toth is "Professor Emeritus" of “Operations Research” at DEI: (Department of Electrical and Information Engineering “Guglielmo Marconi”, Alma Mater Studiorum University of Bologna,
A.D. 1088), where he was Full Professor from 1983 to 2011. His research interests include Operations Research and Mathematical Programming methodologies and, in particular, the design and implementation of effective exact and heuristic algorithms for Combinatorial Optimization and Graph Theory problems, and their application to real-world Transportation, Logistics, Loading, Routing, Crew Management, Railway Optimization problems. He is author of more than 190 papers published in international journals and of the book "Knapsack Problems: Algorithms and Computer Implementations" (coauthor S. Marte...
2023-10-121h 13
Subject toSubject to: Jayme SzwarcfiterJayme Szwarcfiter is a Professor Emeritus at Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) and Visiting Professor at Universidade Estadual do Rio de Janeiro (UERJ) in Brazil. His research interests are related to Graph Theory, Algorithms, Theory of Computation, and Discrete Mathematics. He has published more than 170 journal papers and several influential textbooks in these areas, and has supervised dozens of masters and doctoral students. Jayme is a Full Member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences, and he has received numerous national and international awards such as the Grand Cross for Scientific Merit, the Almirante Álvaro Alberto prize, the S...
2023-09-281h 03
Subject toSubject to: Margarida CarvalhoMargarida Carvalho has a bachelor and masters in mathematics. In 2016, she completed the PhD in computer science at the University of Porto (Portugal) for which she received the 2018 EURO Doctoral Dissertation Award. In 2017, she came to Montreal as an IVADO postdoctoral fellow at Polytechnique and never left since then. One year after, 2018, she became an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Operations Research at the University of Montreal, where now she holds the FRQ-IVADO Research Chair in Data Science for Combinatorial Game Theory.
Margarida is an expert in mixed-integer programming, algorithmic game theory and computational complexity...
2023-09-141h 12
Subject toSubject to: Bruce GoldenBruce Golden received his undergraduate degree in mathematics from the University of Pennsylvania and his masters and doctoral degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He joined the faculty of the University of Maryland Business School in 1976 and served as a Department Chairman from 1980 to 1996. Currently, he is the France-Merrick Chair in Management Science in the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland. His research interests include heuristic search, combinatorial optimization, networks, and applied operations research. Bruce has received numerous awards, including the Thomas L. Saaty Prize (1994 and 2005), the University of Maryland Distinguished Scholar-Teacher Award (2000...
2023-08-312h 09
Subject toSubject to: Tobias AchterbergDr. Achterberg studied mathematics and computer science at the Technical University of Berlin and the Zuse Institute Berlin. He finished his PhD in mathematics under supervision of Prof. Martin Grötschel in 2007. Dr. Achterberg is the author of SCIP, currently the best academic MIP solver. In addition to numerous publications in scientific journals he has also received several awards for his dissertation and for SCIP, such as the Beale-Orchard-Hays Prize.
From 2006, Dr. Achterberg worked for ILOG / IBM as developer of CPLEX in versions 11 to 12.6. Since 2014 he participates in the development of the Gurobi Optimizer, currently being the Vice President o...
2023-08-171h 24
Subject toSubject to: Tobias AchterbergDr. Achterberg studied mathematics and computer science at the Technical University of Berlin and the Zuse Institute Berlin. He finished his PhD in mathematics under supervision of Prof. Martin Grötschel in 2007. Dr. Achterberg is the author of SCIP, currently the best academic MIP solver. In addition to numerous publications in scientific journals he has also received several awards for his dissertation and for SCIP, such as the Beale-Orchard-Hays Prize.
From 2006, Dr. Achterberg worked for ILOG / IBM as developer of CPLEX in versions 11 to 12.6. Since 2014 he participates in the development of the Gurobi Optimizer, currently being the Vice President o...
2023-08-171h 16
Subject toSubject to: Francesca MaggioniFrancesca Maggioni is Associate Professor of Operations Research at the Department of Management, Information and Production Engineering (DIGIP) of the University of Bergamo (Italy). Her research interests concern both methodological and applicative aspects of optimization under uncertainty. From a methodological point of view, she has developed different types of bounds and approximations for stochastic, robust and distributionally robust multistage optimization problems. She applies these methods to solve problems in logistics, transportation, energy production, pension funds and machine learning. On these topics she has published more than 60 scientific articles featured in peer-reviewed operations research and optimization journal like, among others...
2023-08-031h 09
Subject toSubject to: Haroldo G. SantosHaroldo Gambini Santos is a Senior Applied Scientist at Amazon.com. For 10+ years he was a Professor at the Computer Science department of Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto. In 2018-2019 he was a Senior Researcher at the CS department of KU Leuven, Belgium. His research focuses on algorithms and models for combinatorial optimization problems. In 2019 he won the COIN-OR Cup award for his contributions to the CBC mixed-integer linear optimization software. In 2012 his team won the Second International Timetabling Competition. From 2012 to 2020, he was a member of the COIN-OR Foundation Technical Leadership Council. He authored several papers on prestigious...
2023-07-201h 05
Subject toSubject to: Gilbert LaporteGilbert Laporte is Professor Emeritus at HEC Montréal. He obtained his Ph.D. in Operational Research at the London School of Economics in 1975. He was Professor of Operational Research at HEC Montréal and Canada Research Chair in Distribution Management until August 2020. He is now Professor at the School of Management of the University of Bath, United Kingdom, and Professor II at Molde University College, Norway. He is also Honorary Visiting Professor at the University of Liverpool, and Distinguished Professor at the Eindhoven University of Technology. He is a member of the Interuniversity Research Centre on Enterprise Networks, Lo...
2023-06-221h 32
Subject toSubject to: Karen SmilowitzKaren Smilowitz is the James N. and Margie M. Krebs Professor in Industrial Engineering and Management Science at Northwestern University, with a joint appointment in the Operations group at the Kellogg School of Management. Dr. Smilowitz is an expert in modeling and solution approaches for logistics and transportation systems in both commercial and nonprofit applications. She has been instrumental in promoting the use of operations research within the humanitarian and nonprofit sectors through the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the National Academy of Engineering, as well as various me...
2023-06-081h 10
Subject toSubject to: Andy PhilpottAndy Philpott is world expert in optimization under uncertainty and its application in electricity systems. He is the Director of the Electric Power Optimization Centre (EPOC) at the University of Auckland in New Zealand. His work covers a broad range of topics from game-theoretical analyses of electricity market auctions to modelling competition and market power in electricity systems dominated by stored hydroelectricity. Philpott’s EPOC group (www.epoc.org.nz) has been a research leader in this field for 20 years. He has consulted throughout the world on electricity optimization to organizations as diverse as EDF, BC Hydro, Hydro Tasmania, Me...
2023-05-251h 24
Subject toSubject to: Frédéric SemetFrédéric Semet received his PhD from the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne. He is full professor at Centrale Lille, France. His main research activities are in the field of combinatorial optimization applied to location problems, transportation network design problems, and vehicle routing problems. These related problems are encountered from the strategic decision level to the operational decision level in transportation chain management. Frédéric Semet is and has been involved in various grant-funded and collaborative projects with transportation and logistics companies. Currently, he is the scientific leader of a project dedicated to urban distribution in the...
2023-05-111h 19
Subject toSubject to: Rubén RuizRubén Ruiz is Principal Applied Scientist at Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Full Professor of Statistics and Operations Research on leave of absence at the Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain. He is co-author of more than 100 papers in International Journals and has participated in presentations of more than a two hundred papers in national and international conferences. He is editor of the Elsevier’s JCR-listed journal Operations Research Perspectives (ORP) and co-editor of the JCR-listed journal European Journal of Industrial Engineering (EJIE). He is also associate editor of other journals like TOP and member of the editorial boards of...
2023-04-271h 23
Subject toSubject to: Maryam DarvishMaryam Darvish is an associate professor in the Department of Operations and Decision Systems at Université Laval in beautiful Quebec City. Her research focuses on applying OR tools and techniques to solve real-world problems, mainly to develop methods to improve the supply chain's economic and environmental efficiency. She is an active member of the Interuniversity Research Center on Enterprise Networks, Logistics and Transportation (CIRRELT). She has published and worked on several projects with CIRRELT members. Her papers are mainly published in EJOR, IJPE, TRE, and IJPR. She is also a co-founder of MobilOpt, a research group founded in collaboration w...
2023-04-131h 22
Subject toSubject to: Pascal Van HentenryckPascal Van Hentenryck is an A. Russell Chandler III Chair and Professor in the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Georgia Tech. He is also the the director of the NSF Artificial Intelligence Institute for Advances in Optimization. Prior to this appointment, he was a professor of Computer Science at Brown University for about 20 years, he led the optimization research group (about 70 people) at National ICT Australia (NICTA) (until its merger with CSIRO), and was the Seth Bonder Collegiate Professor of Engineering at the University of Michigan. Van Hentenryck is a Fellow of AAAI (the...
2023-03-301h 25
Subject toSubject to: Francisco Saldanha da GamaFrancisco Saldanha da Gama is professor of Operations Research in the Department of Statistics and Operations Research at the Faculty of Science, University of Lisbon, Portugal. He has a large teaching experience both in terms of undergraduate and post-graduate programs focusing on the fields of Operations Research, Mathematical Programming, Discrete Optimization, Stochastic Optimization, Logistics, and Operations Management. Has published extensively in scientific international journals mostly in the areas of supply chain management, logistics, location analysis, project scheduling, and discrete optimization. He has co-edited the two editions of the volume “Location Science” published by Springer International Publishing. Presented above 150 contributed talk...
2023-03-161h 26
Subject toSubject to: Greet Vanden BergheGreet Vanden Berghe holds a degree in Metallurgy and Materials Engineering (KU Leuven). She has always been interested in mathematical modelling which led her in the direction of pursuing combinatorial optimization research. Her PhD focused on scheduling and particularly on developing a general model for personnel rostering that would be applicable across a wide range of health care organizations. This subject provided the perfect opportunity to initiate cooperation with the University of Nottingham, where she spent a one-year research stay. In 2002, she obtained a PhD in Engineering Science (Ghent University). Greet Vanden Berghe was appointed as professor at KU...
2023-03-021h 13
Subject toSubject to: Ricardo FukasawaRicardo Fukasawa is a Professor at the Department of Combinatorics and Optimization at the University of Waterloo. He did his undergraduate and Masters in Electrical Engineering at PUC-Rio in Brazil. He worked at GAPSO Inc from 2000-2003. He then did a PhD in the Algorithms, Combinatorics and Optimization program at GeorgiaTech. He was a recipient of the IBM Herman Goldstine Postdoctoral fellowship from 2008-2009, and moved to Waterloo afterwards. He received the Early Researcher Award from the Ontario Ministry of Research and Innovation. He is an Associate editor of Operations Research, OR Letters, RAIRO-OR and INFOR: Information Systems and...
2023-02-171h 12
Subject toSubject to: Martin SavelsberghMartin Savelsbergh is a logistics and optimization specialist with over 30 years of experience in mathematical modeling, operations research, optimization methods, algorithm design, performance analysis, transport, supply chain management, and production planning. He has published over 200 research papers in many of the top operations research and optimization journals and has supervised more than 30 Ph.D. students. Martin has a track record of creating innovative techniques for solving large-scale optimization problems in a variety of areas, ranging from service network design, to last-mile and crowdsourced delivery, to ridesharing. He has demonstrated an ability to design and implement highly sophisticated and effective...
2023-02-021h 19
Subject toSubject to: Pooja DewanPooja Dewan is the Vice President and Chief Data Analytics Officer for Otis Elevator Company. She is responsible for driving the data and analytics vision, strategy, and execution. In this critical role, she leads the company’s data science and analytics capabilities, identifying opportunities to accelerate growth and efficiency. She also owns the Otis data management roadmap driving sustainable business growth and profitability, as well as internal efficiencies through improved access to through data architecture, constant data cleanliness and insight, and efficient data governance and processes. Prior to this role, Pooja spent more than 20 years at BNSF Railway where sh...
2022-12-161h 14
Subject toSubject to: Ramayya KrishnanRamayya Krishnan is the W. W. Cooper and Ruth F. Cooper Professor of Management Science and Information Systems at the H. John Heinz III College of Information Systems and Public Policy and the Department of Engineering and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University. He joined the CMU faculty in 1988. He is the Founding Dean of the Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy and has held that position since 2009. Krishnan’s education spans engineering, operations research, statistics and computing (the data sciences). He studied Mechanical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology and then went on to complete a...
2022-11-041h 19
Subject toSubject to: Jeff LinderothJeff Linderoth is the Harvey D. Spangler Professor in the department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He holds a courtesy appointment in the Computer Sciences department and as a Discovery Fellow at the Wisconsin Institutes of Discovery. His research interests include optimization, integer programming, mixed integer nonlinear programming and stochastic optimization. His awards include an Early Career Award from the Department of Energy, the SIAM Activity Group on Optimization Prize, and the INFORMS Computing Society Prize. In 2016, Jeff was elected to membership as an INFORMS Fellow. He acted as Associate Editor for highly important O...
2022-10-061h 14
Subject toSubject to: Phebe VayanosPhebe Vayanos is Professor of Industrial & Systems Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Southern California, and an Associate Director of the Center for Artificial Intelligence in Society. Prior to joining USC, she was a lecturer in the Operations Research and Statistics Group at the MIT Sloan School of Management, and a postdoctoral research associate in the Operations Research Center at MIT. She holds a PhD degree in Operations Research and an MEng degree in Electrical & Electronic Engineering, both from Imperial College London. Through her research, she aims to advance integer, stochastic, and robust optimization, and their interface w...
2022-09-221h 17
Subject toSubject to: Andrés MedagliaAndrés Medaglia is full professor of Industrial Engineering at Universidad de los Andes (Bogotá, Colombia) and director of the research center Centro para la Optimización y Probabilidad Aplicada (COPA). He holds a Ph.D. (2001) in Operations Research (OR) from North Carolina State University (USA). From 1999 to 2002 he worked as an optimization specialist developing decision support systems for SAS (Cary, NC, USA). In 2002, he joined the Industrial Engineering Department at Universidad de los Andes and served as Department Chair from 2014 to 2017. He has more than 20 years of experience designing, developing, and applying optimization methodologies to transportation and logistics, hea...
2022-09-011h 12
Subject toSubject to: Kate Smith-MilesKate Smith-Miles is a Melbourne Laureate Professor of Applied Mathematics in the School of Mathematics and Statistics at The University of Melbourne, and Director of the ARC Industrial Transformation Training Centre for Optimisation Technologies, Integrated Methodologies and Applications (OPTIMA). She is also Associate Dean (Enterprise and Innovation) for the Faculty of Science at The University of Melbourne.
Prior to joining The University of Melbourne in September 2017, she was Professor of Applied Mathematics at Monash University, Head of the School of Mathematical Sciences (2009-2014), and inaugural Director of the Monash Academy for Cross & Interdisciplinary Mathematical Applications (MAXIMA) from 2013-2...
2022-08-181h 26
Subject toSubject to: Claudia D'AmbrosioClaudia D'Ambrosio is a research director (Directeure de recherche) at CNRS (France) and an adjunct professor at École Polytechnique (France). She is the head of the International Academic and Research Chair "Integrated Urban Mobility". She holds a Computer Science Engineering Master Degree and a Ph.D. in Operations Research from University of Bologna (Italy). Her research speciality is mathematical optimization, with a special focus on mixed integer nonlinear programming. During her whole carrier, she was involved both in theoretical and applied research projects. She was awarded the EURO Doctoral Dissertation Award for her Ph.D. thesis on "Application-oriented Mixed I...
2022-08-041h 12
Subject toSubject to: Tom Van WoenselTom Van Woensel is Full Professor of Freight Transport and Logistics in the Operations, Planning, Accounting and Control group of the department of Industrial Engineering and Innovation Sciences at the Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands. Since July 2019, he is appointed as the Director of Education and Graduate Program Director of the Department of Industrial Engineering & Innovation Sciences (around 2500 students in various BSc, MSc and PhD programs). He is also the program chair of the Bachelor Program Industrial Engineering. Tom serves as Academic Director of the Global Supply Chain Management program at the Antwerp Management School, Belgium. As...
2022-07-211h 17
Subject toSubject to: Martin SchmidtMartin Schmidt is full professor for "Nonlinear Optimization" at Trier University since 2019. He studied Mathematics and Computer Science at the Leibniz Universität Hannover and received his PhD in 2013 in the area of algorithmic optimization. From 2014 to 2018 he was junior professor for the optimization of energy systems at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg and the Energy Campus Nürnberg. His research interests are mixed-integer nonlinear and bilevel optimization as well as general equilibrium problems. He develops novel algorithms for solving these problems for real-world and large-scale instances, mainly from the energy sector. Martin Schmidt is editorial board member of the...
2022-07-071h 18
Subject toSubject to: Luce BrotcorneLuce Brotcorne is a Senior research scientist (Directeur de Recherche) at INRIA (National Institute for Research in Digital Science and Technology). She is the leader of the INOCS research project team. INOCS works on the modeling and development of solution methods for optimization problems with complex structure. She has been working on the optimization of transportation systems for more than 25 years and in the energy domain for more than 10 years. Her interests include the study of bi-level pricing problems, equilibrium problems and stochastic optimization. More precisely she has a strong experience in modeling and solving optimization problems representing hierarchical...
2022-06-231h 10
Subject toSubject to: Mario PereiraMario Veiga Pereira has BSc and MSc degrees in systems engineering and a DSc in Operations Research. He worked at Cepel, Brazil’s Energy Research Center, and EPRI – Electric Power Research Institute, in Palo Alto, before founding PSR, a provider of stochastic optimization tools and consulting in energy with clients in more than 70 countries. He developed the stochastic dual dynamic programming algorithm, SDDP, and other well-known methodologies used in planning and reliability evaluation. He was a main advisor of two Brazilian governments on the management of the country’s energy supply crisis and on the design of generation contracting auctio...
2022-06-091h 25
Subject toSubject to: Shylaja Subramanian (Mother's Day Special)Shylaja Subramanian is a retired professor of Chemistry from the Universidade Federal da Paraíba (UFPB) in João Pessoa, Brazil. She received here undergraduate degree in Chemistry from the University of Madras in 1963 and her masters degree from the same university in 1965. She moved to Brazil in 1973, and in 1975 she joined the department of chemistry at UFPB, where she taught many courses. She was also involved in the very first research project of that department. In 1996, she obtained here PhD degree in physical chemistry with distinction from the Univesidade de São Paulo (USP) three years before her reti...
2022-05-101h 09
Subject toSubject to: Elise del RosarioElise del Rosario is currently Chief Finance Officer of her family’s One Small Step Forward Foundation which aims to equip elementary public-school children with after school training in mathematics. The first Asian and first woman IFORS Fellow, she served from 2007 to 2009 as the first woman and second Asian President of the International Federation of Operational Research Societies (IFORS). Prior to this, she was IFORS Vice President-at-large (2001-2003) and Association of Asia Pacific OR Societies President (2005-2007). She started getting involved with IFORS as head of its Developing Countries Committee and has organized conferences on this area in Manila, Tun...
2022-04-281h 07
Subject toSubject to: Adam LetchfordAdam Letchford is Professor of Operational Research in the Department of Management Science at Lancaster University, United Kingdom. He has published over 85 articles in leading journals, and over 15 book chapters. He has served on the editorial boards of seven international journals, including Mathematical Programming, Mathematical Programming Computation, and Operations Research. In 2006, he received an IBM Faculty Award and was made an EPSRC Advanced Research Fellow. In 2009, he was made a Fellow of the OR Society. From 2008 to 2013, he co-ordinated the optimisation cluster of the LANCS Initiative. In 2013, he led a research programme on optimisation at the Isaac Newton Institute...
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Subject toSubject to: Martine LabbéMartine Labbé is honorary professor at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB). Until 2019 she was professor of Operations Research at the Computer Science Department of the Faculty of Sciences. Her main research area is discrete optimization, including graph theory and integer programming problems and with a particular emphasis on location and network design problems. She is also specialized in bilevel optimization and studies pricing problems and Stackelberg games. She serves or has served on the editorial boards of Discrete Optimization, International Transactions in Operational Research, Journal on Combinatorial Optimization, Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications, Operations Research, Operations Research Lett...
2022-03-311h 15
Subject toSubject to: Andrea LodiAndrea Lodi is an Andrew H. and Ann R. Tisch Professor at the Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute at Cornell Tech and the Technion. He is a member of the Operations Research and Information Engineering field at Cornell University. He received his PhD in System Engineering from the University of Bologna in 2000 and he was a Herman Goldstine Fellow at the IBM Mathematical Sciences Department, NY in 2005–2006. He was a full professor of Operations Research at DEI, the University of Bologna between 2007 and 2015. Between 2015 and 2022, he has been the Canada Excellence Research Chair in “Data Science for Real-time Decision Making” at Polyte...
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Subject toSubject to: Andrés WeintraubAndrés Weintraub holds a degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Chile a Masters in Statistics and a Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research from the University of California, Berkeley. He is a Professor at the Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Chile. His main research areas are Operations Research, Operations Management in forestry and mining, logistics and transportation. His latest research has been in decision making related to fuel management and forest fires.
He has published over 90 papers in recognized journals, including Operations Research, Management Science, Forest Science, the European Journal of O...
2022-03-031h 16
Subject toSubject to: Vašek ChvátalVašek Chvátal was born in Prague and received his undergraduate degree in mathematics in the same city. He left Czechoslovakia in August 1968, three days after its Soviet-led invasion. Having earned his Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Waterloo in the fall of 1970, he taught mathematics, computer science, and operations research at McGill, Stanford, Université de Montréal, and Rutgers. From 2004 till his retirement in 2014, he held a Canada Research Chair, first in Combinatorial Optimization and then in Discrete Mathematics, at Concordia University in Montreal. His research agenda has ranged from graph theory and combinatorics to line...
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Subject toSubject to: Warren PowellWarren B. Powell is Professor Emeritus at Princeton University, where he taught for 39 years, and is currently the Chief Analytics Officer at Optimal Dynamics. He is the founder and director of CASTLE Labs, which spans contributions to models and algorithms in stochastic optimization, with applications to energy systems, transportation, health, e-commerce, and the laboratory sciences (see www.castlelab.princeton.edu). He has pioneered the use of approximate dynamic programming for high-dimensional applications, and the knowledge gradient for active learning problems. His recent work has focused on developing a unified framework for sequential decision problems under uncertainty, spanning active learning...
2021-12-161h 23
Subject toSubject to: Radhika KulkarniRadhika Kulkarni retired as VP, Advanced Analytics R&D at SAS Institute Inc. where she was responsible for the world’s leading Analytics Software products portfolio. She holds a Ph.D. in Operations Research from Cornell University. Under her leadership, OR gained recognition as a key contributor to scalability and performance of algorithms in statistics, machine learning, forecasting, data mining, econometrics, etc. She serves on many academic advisory boards. Dr. Kulkarni is a Fellow of the Institute of Operations Research and Management Science (INFORMS) and a WORMS Award winner and is currently the President-Elect of INFORMS. In 2022, she will be...
2021-12-091h 11
Subject toSubject to: Teodor Gabriel CrainicTeodor Gabriel Crainic is Full Professor of Operations Research, Transportation, and Logistics, and holds the Chair on Intelligent Logistics and Transportation Systems Planning in the School of Management, Université du Québec à Montréal. He is also Adjunct Professor, Department of Computer Science and Operations Research, Université de Montréal, and senior scientist at CIRRELT, the Interuniversity Research Center for Enterprise Networks, Logistics and Transportation, where he is Director of the Intelligent Transportation Systems Laboratory. Professor Crainic is a member of the Royal Society of Canada – The Academies of Arts, Humanities and Sciences of Canada. He co-founded, in 1991, the TRISTAN...
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Subject toSubject to: Sibel Alumur AlevSibel Alumur Alev is a tenured Associate Professor in the Department of Management Sciences at the University of Waterloo. She received her Ph.D. degree in Industrial Engineering from Bilkent University in 2009. She then worked as a Post-Doctoral Researcher in the Institute of Operations Research at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany. Prior to joining the University of Waterloo in 2014, she worked as an Assistant Professor at TOBB University of Economics and Technology in Ankara. In 2017, she received the Chuck ReVelle Rising Star Award from the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) as a recognition of her res...
2021-11-251h 03
Subject toSubject to: Graham RandGraham Rand retired as a senior lecturer in Operational Research at Lancaster University, UK in 2016. He has been Council Member and Conference Chairman of the British Operational Research Society, and was editor of the Journal of the Operational Research Society for six years from 1991-1996. Since 2014 he has edited the Society’s magazine, Impact. For the International Federation of Operational Research Societies (IFORS) he was Vice-President (1998-2000) and has been editor of both International Abstracts in Operations Research (from 1980-1991) and International Transactions in Operational Research (2000-05). He was editor of the proceedings of the IFORS Conference held in Bu...
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Subject toSubject to: José Fernando GonçalvesJosé Fernando Gonçalves (Ph.D., UC Berkeley) is a Principal Research Scientist at Amazon, with contributions in the fields of operations research, and applied mathematics. He is most known for his work with metaheuristics, in particular Biased Random-key Genetic Algorithms (BRKGA), as well as for his work on the job-shop scheduling. His areas of expertise are Optimization, Heuristics and Metaheuristics, Scheduling, Cutting and Packing, Facility Layout, Inventory Management, and Operations Research Modeling. He has published over 50 papers on combinatorial optimization and edited a book on inventory management. He is on the editorial board of International Transactions in Operational Res...
2021-11-041h 10
Subject toSubject to: Dimitris BertsimasDimitris Bertsimas is the Boeing Professor of Operations Research, the Associate Dean of Business Analytics and the faculty director of the Master of Business Analytics at the Sloan School of Managemnet at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is a member of the US National Academy of Engineering, an INFORMS fellow, recipient of the John von Neumann theory prize, the Frederick W. Lanchester and the INFORMS president awards among many other research and teaching awards, supervisor of 81 completed and 26 current doctoral theses and co-founder of ten analytics companies as well as of the Analytics for a Better World movement...
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Subject toSubject to: Janny LeungProfessor Janny Leung is the Master of Choi Kai Yau College and affiliated with the State Key Lab of Internet of Things for Smart City at the University of Macau. She obtained an S.B. degree in Applied Mathematics from Radcliffe College, a B.A. in Mathematics from Oxford University and a Ph.D. in Operations Research from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Before returning to Hong Kong, she was a faculty member at Yale University and the University of Arizona. Her main research interests are combinatorial optimization, transportation logistics and operational research. In Hong Kong, she has collaborated w...
2021-10-211h 14
Subject toSubject to: Margaret BrandeauMargaret L. Brandeau is Coleman F. Fung Professor of Engineering and Professor of Medicine (by Courtesy) at Stanford University. Her research focuses on the development of applied mathematical and economic models to support health policy decisions. Her recent work has examined HIV and drug abuse prevention and treatment programs, programs to control the opioid epidemic, and COVID-19 response strategies. She is a Fellow of INFORMS (The Institute for Operations Research and Management Science) and a member of the Omega Rho Honor Society for Operations Research and Management Science. From INFORMS, she has received the Philip McCord Morse Lectureship Award...
2021-10-141h 12
Subject toSubject to: Thibaut VidalThibaut Vidal holds the SCALE-AI Chair in Data-Driven Supply Chains and is professor at the Department of Mathematics and Industrial Engineering (MAGI) of Polytechnique Montréal, Canada. He is also a member of CIRRELT and an adjunct professor at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. His main domains of expertise relate to combinatorial optimization, heuristic search and interpretable machine learning, with applications to logistics and supply chain management, production management, resource allocation and information processing. He is the author of over fifty articles in reputed international journals and conferences such as ICML, Operations Research, Transportation Science, S...
2021-10-071h 18
Subject toSubject to: Soroush SaghafianSoroush Saghafian is an Associate Professor at Harvard University. He is interested in using and developing operations research and management science techniques that can have significant public benefits. He is the founder and director of the Public Impact Analytics Science Lab (PIAS-Lab) at Harvard, which is devoted to advancing and applying the science of analytics for solving societal problems that can have public impact. His current teaching focuses on Machine Learning and related analytical tools for solving societal problems. His current research focuses on the application and development of operations research methods in studying stochastic systems with specific applications i...
2021-09-301h 09
Subject toSubject to: Marco LübbeckeMarco Lübbecke is a full professor and chair of operations research at Aachen University, Germany. He received his Ph.D. in applied mathematics in 2001 and was a member of the discrete and combinatorial optimization groups in Braunschweig, Berlin and Darmstadt before he moved to Aachen. Marco's research interests are in computational integer programming and discrete optimization, covering the entire spectrum from fundamental research and methods development to industry scale applications. A particular focus of his work is on decomposition approaches to exactly solving large-scale real-world optimization problems. He is an author of many papers published in prestigious journals s...
2021-09-231h 15
Subject toSubject to: Dolores Romero MoralesDolores Romero Morales is a Professor in Operations Research at Copenhagen Business School, Denmark. Her areas of expertise include Supply Chain Optimization, Data Mining and Revenue Management. In Supply Chain Optimization she works on environmental issues and robustness. In Data Mining she investigates interpretability and visualization. In Revenue Management she works on large-scale network models. Her work has appeared in a variety of leading scholarly journals, including European Journal of Operational Research, Management Science, Mathematical Programming and Operations Research, and has received various distinctions. Currently, she is Editor-in-Chief to TOP, the Operations Research journal of the Spanish Society of...
2021-09-161h 10
Subject toSubject to: Nelson MaculanNelson Maculan is an Emeritus Professor at the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, where he was also a rector. He is full member of several academies such as the Brazilian Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, the European Academy of Arts, Sciences and Humanities, and the Academy of Sciences for the Developing World. Prof. Maculan served as a national secretary of higher education of Brazil between 2004-2006, and he was also the president of many societies such as IFORS, ALIO and SOBRAPO. He received many honors and awards throughout his career including several honorary doctoral...
2021-09-091h 20
Subject toSubject to: Laura AlbertLaura Albert is a Professor and is the David H. Gustafson Department Chair of Industrial & Systems Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her research focuses on discrete optimization with application to homeland security, emergency response, and cybersecurity. Professor Albert’s research has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of the Army, and Sandia National Laboratory. She has authored or co-authored more than 70 publications in archival journals and refereed proceedings. She has been awarded many honors for her research, including the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Fellow Award, Institute of...
2021-09-021h 11
Subject toSubject to: Michel GendreauMichel Gendreau is Professor of Operations Research in the Department of Mathematics and Industrial Engineering of Polytechnique Montréal (Canada). His main research area is the application of operations research methods to a wide range of problem areas: transportation and logistics systems planning and operation, energy production and storage, healthcare, and telecommunications. Dr. Gendreau has published more than 350 papers in peer-reviewed journals and conference proceedings. He is also the co-editor of eight books dealing with transportation planning and scheduling, as well as with metaheuristics. Dr. Gendreau was the Director of the Centre for Research on Transportation (formerly CRT and no...
2021-08-261h 27
Subject toSubject to: Claudia ArchettiClaudia Archetti is an Associate Professor in Operations Research at ESSEC Business School in Paris, since September 2019. She was previously Associate Professor at the University of Brescia. She teaches courses for undergraduate, master and PhD students in OR and logistics. The main areas of the scientific activity are: models and algorithms for vehicle routing problems; mixed integer mathematical programming models for the minimization of the sum of inventory and transportation costs in logistic networks; exact and heuristic algorithms for supply-chain management; reoptimization of combinatorial optimization problems. Claudia Archetti has carried out the scientific activity in collaboration with Italian and...
2021-08-191h 20
Subject toSubject to: Natarajan Subramanian (Father's Day Special)Natarajan "Brazil" Subramanian is a retired professor of Chemistry from the Universidade Federal da Paraíba (UFPB) in João Pessoa, Brazil. He received his undergraduate degree in Chemistry from the University of Madras in 1959 and his masters degree from the same university in 1963. In 1971, he obtained his PhD degree in physical inorganic from the University of Waterloo in Canada. He moved to Brazil in 1973, where he lives to this date. Dr. Subramanian also has a vast and impressive "extra-curricular" record, including a couple of dangerous accidents, heart attacks and brain stem strokes. He is also an author of a...
2021-08-081h 22
Subject toSubject to: Eduardo UchoaEduardo Uchoa is an Associate Professor at Universidade Federal Fluminense, Niterói, Brazil. His research areas include the theory and application of integer programming approaches for solving large NP-hard combinatorial optimization problems. In particular, he had made groundbreaking contributions for the joint use of column and cut generation techniques, in the so-called branch-cut-and-price (BCP) algorithms. He is an author of many efficient exact algorithms for a number of problems such as Steiner problems, vehicle routing, scheduling, network design, 1D and 2D cutting problems, among others. He also worked on several applied problems from the industry, and has been nominated a...
2021-06-041h 07
Subject toSubject to: David PisingerDavid Pisinger is professor in operations research at DTU Management Engineering, and former professor at DIKU, University of Copenhagen. David graduated in mathematics and computer science in 1990, and finished his PhD at University of Copenhagen in 1995. His main research topics include maritime optimization, energy optimization, vehicle routing, railway optimization, and cutting problems. He has written more than 100 papers in leading journals, and a monograph on Knapsack Problems. David Pisinger received the PhD prize of the Danish Academy of Natural Sciences in 1995 for his thesis on Knapsack Problems. Moreover he received the Hedorfs Fonds prize for Transport Research 2013; award of...
2021-05-281h 16
Subject toSubject to: Sophie ParraghSophie N. Parragh is a full professor at the Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria, where she is head of the Institute of Production and Logistics Management, member of the dean team of JKU Business School and director of the MSc program "Economic and Business Analytics" She received her PhD from the University of Vienna in 2009 and completed her habilitation in 2016. She worked as a visiting researcher at the CIRRELT, Montreal and as a postdoc fellow at the IBM Center for Advanced Studies in Porto. She won a Hertha Firnberg Postdoc Fellowship (funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF)) at...
2021-05-211h 11
Subject toSubject to: Sin HoSin Ho is a senior lecturer at the Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. She received her PhD degree from the Department of Informatics, University of Bergen in Norway. Her research is within the development of mathematical models and solution algorithms for decision problems in the areas of transportation and logistics. Before joining the Chinese University of Hong Kong, she has held a faculty position at Aarhus University in Denmark for several years.
2021-05-141h 11
Subject toSubject to: Maria Grazia SperanzaM. Grazia Speranza is a full professor of Operations Research at the University of Brescia, where she served as Dean of the Faculty of Economics and Business and Deputy Rector. She is a former President of EURO (association of European Operational Research Societies) and of TSL (Transportation Science and Logistics society of INFORMS). As EURO President she founded the EURO Journal on Transportation and Logistics, the EURO Journal on Computational Optimization and the EURO Journal on Decision Processes. She is currently President of IFORS (International Federation of the Operational Research Societies).
Grazia’s research focuses on mixed int...
2021-05-081h 15
Subject toSubject to: Ruslan SadykovRuslan Sadykov is a researcher in the Bordeaux center of Inria, French National Institute for Informatics and Automatics. He received his master degree in Operations Research in Kazan State University, Russia, and his Ph.D. degree in Applied Mathematics in 2006 at CORE, Université Catholique de Louvain in Belgium. He was a postdoctoral researcher in Ecole Polytechnique in Paris before joining the ReAlOpt team at Inria Bordeaux as a research fellow in 2008. He was a visiting researcher at Universidade Federal Fluminense, Niteroi, Brazil during one year in 2015-2016. His research interests are in integer programming based decomposition approaches for solving c...
2021-04-301h 15
Subject toSubject to: Alysson CostaAlysson M. Costa is a Senior Lecturer at the School of Mathematics and Statistics of the University of Melbourne (2014 - ). Prior to that, he held a research fellow position at the Informatics Institute of the Brazilian Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (2007) and was an assistant professor at the Applied Mathematics Department of the University of São Paulo (2008-2013). He was trained in Engineering, obtaining a BEng and an MSc from the State University of Campinas (2000,2002) and an Engineering Specialisation Diploma from the Ecole Centrale Lyon (2000). He concluded his PhD studies in Business Administration from HEC - Un...
2021-04-231h 27
Subject toSubject to: Anna NagurneyAnna Nagurney is the John F. Smith Memorial Professor at the Isenberg School of Management at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and the Director of the Virtual Center for Supernetworks, which she founded in 2001. She holds ScB, AB, ScM and PhD degrees from Brown University in Providence, RI. She is the author/editor of 15 books, more than 200 refereed journal articles, and over 50 book chapters. She presently serves on the editorial boards of a dozen journals and two book series and is the editor of another book series. Professor Nagurney has been a Fulbrighter twice (in Austria and Italy), was a...
2021-04-161h 07
Subject toSubject to: Fabio FuriniFabio Furini is a Research Fellow at the Italian National Research Council (CNR). From 2013 to 2019, he was a Maı̂tre de Conférences (equivalent to Associate Professor) at the Laboratoire d’analyse et modélisation de systèmes pour l’aide à la décision (LAMSADE) of Université Paris-Dauphine. Fabio Furini is a researcher in the fields of mathematical programming and discrete optimization. His backbone research project aims at studying and developing effective exact algorithms, based on reformulation and decomposition techniques, for Mixed Integer Linear and Nonlinear Programs. Over the last ten years, Fabio Furini has published numerous articles in top internationa...
2021-04-091h 21
Subject toSubject to: Panos PardalosPanos Pardalos is a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the University of Florida, and an affiliated faculty of Biomedical Engineering and Computer Science & Information & Engineering departments. In addition, he is the director of the Center for Applied Optimization. Dr. Pardalos is a world renowned leader in Global Optimization, Mathematical Modeling, Energy Systems, and Data Sciences. He is a Fellow of AAAS, AIMBE, and INFORMS and was awarded the 2013 Constantin Caratheodory Prize of the International Society of Global Optimization. In addition, Dr. Pardalos has been awarded the 2013 EURO Gold Medal prize bestowed by the Associati...
2021-04-031h 12
Subject toSubject to: Juan José Salazar GonzálezJuan-José Salazar-González is a full professor of Operations Research at the Department of Mathematics, University of La Laguna (Tenerife, Spain). He got a first PhD degree in Mathematics at University of Bologna (Italy) in 1992 and a second PhD degree in Computer Science at Universidad de La Laguna (Spain) in 1995. His main research area of interest is Combinatorial Optimization, with emphasis in modelling and solving difficult decision problems in logistics, vehicle routing, location, scheduling, among others. He has used Polyhedral Combinatorics in different areas like Statistical Disclosure Control, Data Editing, Computational Biology, Airline Scheduling, and Astronomy. He is coauthor of...
2021-03-261h 18
Subject toSubject to: Mauricio ResendeMauricio G. C. Resende is a Principal Research Scientist at Amazon Science and an Affiliate Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the University of Washington. He grew up in Rio de Janeiro (BR), West Lafayette (IN-US), and Amherst (MA-US). He did his undergraduate training in electrical engineering (systems engineering concentration) at the Pontifical Catholic U. of Rio de Janeiro. He obtained an MS in operations research from Georgia Tech and a PhD in operations research from the U. of California, Berkeley. He is most known for his work with metaheuristics, in particular GRASP and biased random-key genetic algorithms, as w...
2021-03-191h 26
Subject toSubject to: Roberto RobertiRoberto Roberti is an Associate Professor at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, School of Business and Economics, Department of Operations Analytics. In 2012, he obtained a PhD in Control System Engineering and Operational Research from the University of Bologna. His PhD dissertation received the Premio Lorenzo Brunetta and the VeRoLog Doctoral Dissertation Prize. His research focuses on the development of efficient exact and heuristic algorithms for combinatorial optimization problems arising in the fields of Transportation and Logistics. His research has been published in prestigious journals such as Operations Research, Management Science, Transportation Science, INFORMS Journal on Computing, European Journal of Operational...
2021-03-121h 08
Subject toSubject to: Leandro CoelhoLeandro C. Coelho is an associate professor in the Faculty of Business Administration at Université Laval, since 2013, and holds the Canada Research Chair in Integrated Logistics, since 2016. He obtained engineering degrees in Industrial Engineering and Electrical Engineering, as well as a master's degree in Industrial Engineering, specializing in Logistics and Transportation, and an MBA. In 2012, he obtained his Ph.D. in Quantitative Methods at HEC Montréal. His research focuses on the optimization of logistics operations, and touches on all supply chain activities: purchasing, facility location decisions, warehousing, short and long-distance transportation, production decisions and last-mile delivery. More recently, he...
2021-03-051h 14
Subject toSubject to: Helena Ramalhinho LourençoHelena Ramalhinho Dias Lourenço is a Full Professor at Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF). She has a B.A. and Master degree in Statistics and Operations Research from the University of Lisbon, Portugal, and a Ph.D. in Operations Research from Cornell University, New York, USA. She has been involved in different research projects and consulting for firms in the area of Operations Research, Transportation, Operations Management and Logistics. Helena has published many articles in prestigious international scientific journals and has presented her work at international conferences. She also has been serving as a reviewer for several journals and a...
2021-02-261h 19
Subject toSubject to: Dorien HerremansDorien Herremans is an Assistant Professor at Singapore University of Technology and Design. At SUTD she heads the Audio, Music, and AI Lab (AMAAI) and is director of SUTD Game Lab. Before being at SUTD, she was a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at the Centre for Digital Music at Queen Mary University of London, where she worked on the project: ``MorpheuS: Hybrid Machine Learning – Optimization techniques To Generate Structured Music Through Morphing And Fusion''. She received her Ph.D. in Applied Economics on the topic of Computer Generation and Classification of Music through Operations Research Methods, and graduated as a c...
2021-02-211h 12
Subject toSubject to: Jean-François CôtéJean-François Côté is an associate professor in the Department of Operations and Decision Systems at Laval University in Quebec City. He obtained his Ph.D. in Computer Science at the University of Montreal in 2014. During his studies, he worked in the private sector for many companies to solve many different types of operation research problems. His research interests are vast and include combinatorial optimization, stochastic programming, cutting, packing, vehicle routing and scheduling problems. His research has been published in top-tier journals like Operations Research, INFORMS Journal on Computing, Transportation Science and European Journal of Operational Research.
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Subject toSubject to: Luciana BuriolLuciana Buriol is an Associate Professor in the Institute of Informatics at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil, since 2006. Her background is in optimization and algorithms. She finished her undergrad studies in Computer Science in 1998 by the Federal University of Santa Maria, and Msc (2000) and Ph.D. (2003) in Optimization by the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP), São Paulo, Brazil. In 2001-2002 she spent 15 months working as a visiting scholar at AT&T Labs Research, NJ, USA. In 2004-2005 she spent 18 months as a Post-doc in the Algorithm group of the University of Rome L...
2021-02-201h 32
Subject toSubject to: Manuel IoriManuel Iori is an associate professor of Operations Research at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia. He has published more than 80 papers in international journals, including Operations Research, Mathematical Programming and Transportation Science. His research lies in the fields of combinatorial optimization and logistics, with a focus on exact and heuristic algorithms for traveling salesman, vehicle routing, bin packing, production and scheduling problems. He is member of the research centers CIRRELT, INdAM, AIRI and INTERMECH MORE. He collaborates with companies for the solutions of real-world optimization problems, by designing and developing solution methods and decision support systems.
2021-02-201h 10
Subject toSubject to: Claudio ContardoClaudio Contardo is a Software Engineer at the IBM Toronto Software Lab, as part of the CPLEX Optimization Studio development team. He contributes in the design and implementation of state-of-the-art optimization techniques at the core of the CPLEX and the CP optimizers. Before joining IBM, he was an Associate Professor at the UQAM School of Business (2016-2021) and an Assistant Professor before that (2012-2016). He is interested in the algorithmic challenges associated with the solution of mixed-integer programming problems, and on their application to a variety of fields such as logistics and machine learning. He is the author of...
2021-02-201h 14
Subject toSubject to: Rafael MartinelliRafael Martinelli is an Operations Research professor at the Industrial Engineering Department of the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio). His published research includes papers in different fields, such as Engineering, Mathematics, Computer Science, and Decision Sciences. He has experience solving industry problems, working on multiple projects from different companies. His research has been published in prestigious international journals such as Transportation Science, International Journal of Production Research, Computers & Operations Research, European Journal of Operational Research, INFORMS Journal on Computing, and Journal of Global Optimization, Discrete Optimization and Optimization and Engineering.
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Subject toSubject to: Maria BattarraMaria Battarra is a Senior Lecturer in Management Science at the University of Bath, School of Management. In 2010, she obtained a PhD from the University of Bologna in Operational Research and she specialized in the study of combinatorial optimisation problems. Her research mainly focuses on developing innovative exact and metaheuristic algorithms for real world applications, including but not limited to vehicle routing problems, scheduling problems, disaster relief management, and maritime logistics. Her research has been published in prestigious international journals such as Operations Research, Transportation Science, Naval Research Logistics, Networks, International Journal of Production Research, Computers & Operations Research, and E...
2021-02-201h 03
With Mridula AnandIn conversation with Vidya SubramanianVidya Subramanian, dancer, teacher, performing artist
2020-07-1017 min
American Desis PodcastAnand Subramanian- The Equity ManifestoAfter our community episode surrounding Black Lives Matter, it felt right to drop an episode with one of the brilliant activists in our own community. Enter Anand Subramanian, Associate Director at PolicyLink in Oakland, leading their efforts to advance community-centered policing. Our conversation begins with a reading from their Equity Manifesto and continues to explore the difference between equity and equality. We then get to explore how he got started, examples of how history has created advantages for different communities that makes equity necessary over equality, and how being South Asian plays into this whole narrative. In a time...
2016-07-1949 min