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Gilbert 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 Universit...

Karen 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 instrumenta...

Andy 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 b...

Frédéric 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 d...

Rubén 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 E...

Maryam 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 Enterpri...

Pascal 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...

Francisco 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, Logistic...

Greet 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....

Ricardo 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 fellowshi...

Martin 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...

Pooja 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 b...

Ramayya 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 he...

Jeff 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...

Phebe 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...

Andrés 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 SA...

Kate 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 o...

Claudia 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 mathemati...

Tom 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 & I...

Martin 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 Cam...

Luce 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...

Mario 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 alg...

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....

Elise 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)...

Adam 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 rec...