Dr. Willem Jan Van Hoeve

Biography

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 applications in network design, scheduling, vehicle routing, and data mining. He has made notable contributions in the areas of constraint integer programming and has pioneered the field of decision diagrams in optimization. His research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, the Office of Naval Research, and Google Faculty Research Awards, and he has consulted for various companies including FedEx Ground, Exxon Mobil, PNC Bank, and Bosch/Siemens, as well as numerous nonprofit organizations. Van Hoeve is the recipient of the INFORMS Computing Society Harvey J. Greenberg Research Award and has received the Tepper School's MBA Teaching Award twice, as well as the MSBA Teaching Award and multiple paper awards. He serves on the Board of Directors of the INFORMS Computing Society, as Chairperson of the INFORMS Student Competition Committee, and on the Steering Committee for the CPAIOR conference series. He is also an Associate Editor for several journals including the INFORMS Journal on Computing, Operations Research, and Artificial Intelligence. Van Hoeve is featured faculty in the Executive Education program at Carnegie Mellon for Business Analytics: Data-Informed Decision-Making.

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