BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH

Professor Jean-Louis Goffin

Professor Goffin was born in Brussels in July 1944, and graduated in Electrical Engineering at the Universite Libre de Bruxelles, with a thesis that was, in retrospect, an optimization problem subject to semi-infinite constraints. He joined the IEOR department at Berkeley in 1967, on the outdated assumption that George Dantzig was there, and graduated in 1971, under the supervision of Richard Karp, with a thesis on "Solving Linear Inequalities by the Relaxation Method". He came to Montreal in 1972, when he joined HEC, and then moved to McGill in 1976, where he is a Professor in the Faculty of Management, and an associate member of the Department of Mathematics. He is a founding member of GERAD as well as an associate member of LOGILAB/Geneva.