معرفی
Willem-Jan Van Hoeve is the Carnegie Bosch Professor of Operations Research at the Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University. He also holds a courtesy appointment at the Heinz College, Carnegie Mellon University.
His research focuses on methodologies in operations research, including mathematical optimization, constraint programming, decision diagrams, integer programming, and machine learning, with applications to network design, scheduling, vehicle routing, data mining, healthcare operations, and analytical marketing. He pioneered decision diagrams for optimization and developed the Decision Diagrams for Optimization research project with source code and benchmarks.
His funded research includes National Science Foundation (2019-2024, 2011-2015), Office of Naval Research (2021-2024, 2018-2021), and Google Faculty Research Awards (2015, 2011). He has consulted for FedEx Ground, Exxon Mobil, PNC Bank, Bosch/Siemens, Charter Steel, and non-profit organizations.
Academic Service and Leadership:
- Board of Directors, INFORMS Computing Society (2019-2021)
- Chairperson, INFORMS Student Competition Committee (2018-2020)
- Steering Committee, CPAIOR Conference Series
- Executive Committee, Association for Constraint Programming (2013-2016)
- Associate Editor roles at INFORMS Journal on Computing, Operations Research, and Artificial Intelligence
Scientific Awards:
- INFORMS Computing Society Harvey J. Greenberg Research Award (2020)
- IISE Transactions Best Application Paper (2022)
- EJOR Best Paper Award (2019)
- Best paper award at CP Conference (2006)
- Best student paper award at CP Conference (2004)
Key Academic Contributions: He has advised PhD students David Bergman, Andre Cire, Christian Tjandraatmadja, and others. His work includes co-authorship of the book Decision Diagrams for Optimization (Springer, 2016), and development of software like HADDOCK and Seq2Pat library.
