BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH

Professor David Shomys

David Shmoys obtained his PhD in Computer Science in 1984 from the University of California at Berkeley, and is currently a Professor in the School of Operations Research and Industrial Engineering and the Department of Computer Science at Cornell University. Prior to joining the faculty at Cornell, he was on the faculty in the Department of Mathematics at MIT (and a member of the ORC), and was a post-doctoral fellow at the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute in Berkeley, and at Harvard University. His research interests are in combinatorial optimization, and the design and analysis of algorithms, with particular interests in scheduling, location models, and even computational biology.

He is a co-editor of the book, The Traveling Salesman Problem, and on the editorial board of several journals, including Mathematics of Operations Research, Mathematical Programming, and the SIAM Journals of Computing and Discrete Mathematics.