Brief Bio:

Willem-Jan van Hoeve is the Carnegie Bosch Professor of Operations Research at the Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University. His research focuses on developing new methodologies for mathematical optimization with primary applications to network design, vehicle routing, scheduling, and data mining. He made notable contributions to the areas of constraint and integer programming, and most recently pioneered the field of decision diagrams for optimization. Van Hoeve's research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, the Office of Naval Research, and two Google Faculty Research Awards. He has consulted for a variety of companies, including FedEx Ground, Exxon Mobil, PNC Bank, Bosch/Siemens, and Charter Steel, as well as a number of non-profit organizations. Van Hoeve is the recipient of the INFORMS Computing Society Harvey J. Greenberg Research Award, INFORMS Computing Society Prize Honorable Mention, best paper awards in EJOR, IISE Transactions, and the CP conference, and the Tepper School's MBA and MSBA Teaching Awards (both twice). Van Hoeve currently serves as Area Editor for INFORMS Journal on Computing, Associate Editor for Operations Research, and Associate Editor for Artificial Intelligence.