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by Anand Subramanian

"Subject to" offers a series of informal conversations with relevant figures in the fields of Operations Research, Combinatorial Optimization and Logistics, and they are hosted by Anand Subramanian, an Associate Professor at Universidade Federal da Paraíba, Brazil. About the host:Anand was born and raised in João Pessoa, Brazil. His parents are Indian immigrants who moved to Brazil in the early 1970s. He is an author of more 60 articles published in prestigious international journals.

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  1. Subject to: Donald Goldfarb

    Donald Goldfarb is the Avanessians Professor in the IEOR Department at Columbia University. He is internationally recognized for the development and analysis of efficient and practical algorithms for solving various classes of optimization problems, including the BFGS quasi-Newton method for...

  2. Subject to: Philippe Toint

    Philippe Toint is an emeritus professor of mathematics at the University of Namur, Belgium, specializing in numerical analysis, OR, and continuous optimization. His academic career has centered on the theory, computation, and software design of large-scale nonlinear optimization, including the...

  3. Subject to: Robert Vanderbei

    Robert Vanderbei is a Professor in the Department of Operations Research and Financial Engineering at Princeton University. From 2005 to 2012, he was chair of the department. In addition, he holds courtesy appointments in the Departments of Mathematics, Astrophysics, Computer Science, and...

  4. Subject to: Katya Scheinberg

    Katya Scheinberg is a Coca-Cola Foundation Chair and Professor at the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology. Prior to joining Georgia Tech, she held positions at Cornell and Lehigh Universities and at IBM T.J. Watson Research Center. She...

  5. Subject to: Aharon Ben-Tal

    Aharon “Ronny” Ben-Tal is a Professor of OR and former head of the MINERVA Optimization Center at the Faculty of Industrial Engineering and Management at the Israel Institute of Technology (Technion). His interests lie in Continuous Optimization, particularly nonsmooth and large-scale problems,...

  6. Subject to: Jorge Nocedal

    Jorge Nocedal is a Professor in the Department of Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences at Northwestern University. He obtained his B.S. degree from UNAM, Mexico, and a PhD from Rice University. His research is in optimization, both deterministic and stochastic, and with emphasis on...

  7. Subject to: Alain Hertz

    Alain Hertz graduated in mathematical engineering and obtained a Ph.D in operations research at the École Polytechnqiue Fédérale de Lausanne. Since 2001, he is professor at the department of mathematics and industrial engineering at Polytechnique Montréal, Canada. He is also member of the multi...

  8. Subject to: Tamás Terlaky

    Professor Terlaky is the director of the Quantum Computing and Optimization Laboratory (QCOL). He served as the Chair of the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Lehigh University, 2008 – 2017. Prior to his appointment at Lehigh U., Prof. Terlaky has taught at Eötvös U., Budapest,...

  9. Subject to: Susanne Heipcke

    Susanne Heipcke is Director of Software Engineering at FICO, where she has led the Modelling Team of FICO Xpress development for more than 12 years. Her team is responsible for the development and design of the modelling tools (Xpress Mosel) and the APIs of the Xpress Optimization software suite,...

  10. Subject to: Dorit Hochbaum

    Dorit S. Hochbaum is a distinguished professor in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research (IEOR) at UC Berkeley. Professor Hochbaum holds a Ph.D from the Wharton school of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. Her research interests are in areas of discrete optimization, network flow...

  11. Subject to: Kenneth Sörensen

    Kenneth Sörensen obtained his PhD entitled "A framework for robust and flexible optimization using metaheuristics" from the University of Antwerp in 2003 and continued as a post-doctoral researcher at the UAntwerp. From 2006 to 2009, he worked as a postdoc researcher of the Flemish Fund for...

  12. Subject to: Yoshiko Wakabayashi

    Yoshiko Wakabayashi is a retired professor at Universidade de São Paulo (USP), Brazil. She holds a degree in Mathematics Education and a master’s degree in Applied Mathematics from USP, as well as a PhD in Applied Mathematics from the University of Augsburg. Her research interests include...

  13. Subject to: Erling D. Andersen

    Erling D. Andersen is co-founder and CEO of the Danish company MOSEK ApS which is the vendor of the Mosek optimization software package. In 1993 Erling received a PhD in Economics from Odense University (Denmark). The main research interests of Erling are computational linear and convex...

  14. Subject to: Louis-Martin Rousseau

    Louis-Martin Rousseau is a Full Professor in the Department of Mathematical and Industrial Engineering at Polytechnique Montréal, where he has been a faculty member since 2003. He holds the Canada Research Chair in Healthcare Analytics and Logistics, and is known for his applied research at the...

  15. Subject to: Laureano Escudero

    Laureano Escudero received his PhD Degree in Economic Sciences from Universidad Comercial de Deusto, Bilbao, Spain, 1974, and a degree in Computer Sciences from Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain, 1972. ORCID: 0000-0002-1196-7124. He has taught Mathematical Statistics and Decision Theory at...

  16. Subject to: Héctor Cancela

    Héctor Cancela holds a PhD. degree in Computer Science from the University of Rennes 1, INRIA Rennes, France (1996), and a Computer Systems Engineer degree from the Universidad de la República, Uruguay (1990). He is a Full Professor at the Computing Institute at the Engineering School of the...

  17. Subject to: Bissan Ghaddar

    Bissan Ghaddar is the John M. Thompson Chair in Engineering Leadership and Innovation and an Associate Professor of Management Science and Sustainability at the Ivey Business School working on problems at the intersection of machine learning and non-linear optimization. She is also affiliated…

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  18. Subject to: Dominique de Werra

    Dominique de Werra is an emeritus professor of Operations Research at EPFL (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne) in Switzerland. His research fields include Combinatorial Optimization, Graph Theory, Scheduling and Timetabling. After spending a few years as an assistant professor in…

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  19. Subject to: Harilaos Psaraftis

    Harilaos N. Psaraftis is Professor Emeritus at the Department of Technology, Management and Economics at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU). His areas of interest are maritime logistics, intermodal logistics, port logistics, and green logistics. He has a PhD from MIT, where he was a…

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  20. Subject to: Hugo Scolnik

    Hugo Sconlik is regarded as one of the pioneers of Informatics in Argentina. In 1985 he created the Computer Science Department, of which he is currently Full Professor, at the School of Sciences of the University of Buenos Aires (UBA). Cryptography is Hugo's focal area of research, gaining him...

  21. Subject to: Karen Aardal

    Karen Aardal is a Full Professor at TU Delft, in the Netherlands, specializing in integer and combinatorial optimization, with a focus on algebraic methods for solving integer optimization problems. Her research also includes algorithm analysis and practical applications in health and logistics....

  22. Subject to: Artur Pessoa (100th Episode Special)

    Artur Pessoa is an Associate Professor at Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil. He holds a bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering from PUC-Rio and master’s and doctoral degrees in Informatics from the same institution. His research interests focus on developing insightful approaches to...

  23. Subject to: Alexander Rinnooy Kan

    Alexander Rinnooy Kan (1949) grew up in The Hague. He graduated in Mathematics from the University of Leiden in 1972. In the same year, he acquired a Candidate’s degree in Econometrics at the University of Amsterdam. From 1973 to 1977 he taught mathematics and statistics at Delft University of...

  24. Subject to: José Mario Martínez

    José Mario Martínez was born in Cangas del Narcea, Asturias, Spain in 1948, but he moved to Argentina in 1951. He received the B. S. degree in Mathematics from the University of Buenos Aires in 1971 and the Ph. D. degree in Systems Engineering and Computation from the University of Rio de Janeiro...

  25. Subject to: Simge Küçükyavuz

    Simge 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...

  26. Subject to: Timo Berthold

    Timo 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...

  27. Subject to: Marielle Christiansen

    Marielle 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...

  28. Subject to: Pedro Munari

    Dr. 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...

  29. Subject to: Michael Florian

    Michael "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...

  30. Subject to: Alain Zemkoho

    Alain 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...

  31. Subject to: Brian Denton

    Brian 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...

  32. Subject to: Robert Fourer

    Robert 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...

  33. Subject to: Candace Yano

    Candace ("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…

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  34. Subject to: Jan Karel Lenstra

    Jan 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…

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  35. Subject to: Ted Ralphs

    Dr. 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...

  36. Subject to: Martin Grötschel

    Martin 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…

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  37. Subject to: Carola Doerr

    Carola 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...

  38. Subject to: Emilio Carrizosa

    Emilio 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…

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  39. Subject to: Shadi Sharif Azadeh

    Shadi 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...

  40. Subject to: Thomas Stützle

    Thomas 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),...

  41. Subject to: Ignacio Grossmann

    Ignacio 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...

  42. Subject to: Robert Bixby

    Dr. 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…

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  43. Subject to: Changhyun Kwon

    Changhyun 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...

  44. Subject to: Jeannette Song

    Jing-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,...

  45. Subject to: Karla Hoffman

    Karla 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...

  46. Subject to: Paolo Toth

    Paolo 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...

  47. Subject to: Jayme Szwarcfiter

    Jayme 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...

  48. Subject to: Margarida Carvalho

    Margarida 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…

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  49. Subject to: Bruce Golden

    Bruce 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…

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  50. Subject to: Tobias Achterberg

    Dr. 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...

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"Subject to" offers a series of informal conversations with relevant figures in the fields of Operations Research, Combinatorial Optimization and Logistics, and they are hosted by Anand Subramanian, an Associate Professor at Universidade Federal da Paraíba, Brazil. About the host:Anand was born and raised in João Pessoa, Brazil. His parents are Indian immigrants who moved to Brazil in the early 1970s. He is an author of more 60 articles published in prestigious international journals.

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