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David Shmoys is a Professor at Cornell University, focusing on discrete optimization and approximation algorithms with applications in scheduling, inventory theory, computational biology, and computational sustainability. He currently serves as Co-Chair of the Academic Planning Committee for Cornell Tech and Associate Director of the Institute of Computational Sustainability.
His research has earned him Fellowships from the ACM, INFORMS, and SIAM, alongside the 2013 Lanchester Prize for his co-authored book The Design of Approximation Algorithms and the 2018 INFORMS Daniel H. Wagner Prize for his work on bike-sharing systems. He has advised 21 Ph.D. students, many of whom hold faculty positions at top institutions.
- Key Collaborations: Citibike, Motivate, Hangil Chung, Aaron Ferber, Nanjing Jian, Ashkan Nourozi-Fard, Alice Paul, David Williamson
- Recent Projects: Optimization of bike-sharing systems using Markov chains, integer programming, and crowd-sourced rebalancing via the Bike Angels program
Editorial Roles: Associate Editor for Mathematics of Operations Research, former Editor-in-Chief of SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics, and editorial board member for multiple journals including Operations Research and Mathematical Programming.
