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Martine 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 specialize...

Andrea 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 20...

Andrés 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, lo...

Vašek 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....

Warren 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.cast...

Radhika 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 mi...

Teodor 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 Interuniversit...

Sibel 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, s...

Graham 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 R...

José 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 Me...

Dimitris 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. Lancheste...

Professor 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, sh...

Margaret 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 strat...

Thibaut 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 int...

Soroush 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...

Marco 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 ent...

Dolores 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 mod...

Nelson 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 h...

Laura 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, t...

Michel 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...

Claudia 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 mathematica...

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 Bra...

Eduardo 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 (BC...

David 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 ha...

Sophie 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 r...