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Professor Diego Klabjan

Diego Klabjan is an assistant professor at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. After obtaining his doctorate from the School of Industrial and Systems Engineering of the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1999, in the same year he joined the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at the University of Illinois. He is the recipient of the first prize of the 2000 Transportation Science Dissertation Award. He is serving as the vice-president of the INFORMS Aviation Applications Section. His research is focused on airline operations research, integer programming, and parallel computing.