Dr. Martín Abadi
Gérard Cornuéjols MEMBERS
Professor of Operations Research, Carnegie Mellon University
United States
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  • 2015
  • Industrial and Manufacturing Enginering (I.M.E.)
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  • 2015
  • Industrial and Manufacturing Enginering (I.M.E.)
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Gérard Pierre Cornuéjols (born November 16, 1950) is the IBM University Professor of Operations Research in the Carnegie Mellon University Tepper School of Business.

His research interests include facility location, integer programming, balanced matrices, and perfect graphs.
 
In 1977, Cornuéjols was one of the winners of the Frederick W. Lanchester Prize of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS).
 
In 2000, he won the Fulkerson Prize with Michele Conforti and Mendu Rammohan Rao for their work on algorithms for recognizing balanced matrices.
 
In 2009, the Mathematical Optimization Society gave him their George B. Dantzig Prize.
 
In 2011, he won the John von Neumann Theory Prize of INFORMS "for his fundamental and broad contributions to discrete optimization including his deep research on balanced and ideal matrices, perfect graphs and cutting planes for mixed-integer optimization".

In 2015, he was elected as member of the Euorpean Academy of Engineering.
 
In 2016, he was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering for contributions to the theory, practice, and application of integer programming.