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Yanjun Li is the Lewis B. Cullman Professor and Director of Management Doctoral Programs at Purdue University. He earned his Ph.D. in Operations Research from Carnegie Mellon University and a B.S. in Applied Mathematics from Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics. His teaching interests encompass management science, operations research, statistics, and optimization models algorithms, as well as spreadsheet modeling and simulation. Li's research interests focus on combinatorial optimization, integer programming, polyhedral theory, and polynomial-time algorithms. Currently, he is concentrating on Chvatal inequalities, Chvatal rank, and polynomial solvability of integer programming problems. Throughout his career, he has received multiple awards, including the Jay N. Ross Young Faculty Scholar Award in 2005, the John Mary Willis Young Faculty Award in 2008, and he has been recognized as a Krannert Faculty Fellow in the same year. In addition, he was designated as a University Faculty Scholar from 2014 to 2019. Li is an active member of several professional organizations including the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), the Mathematical Optimization Society (MOS), and the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM).
Purdue University • West Lafayette, IN
Oversees the Management Doctoral Programs at Purdue University.
GRE is not required.