BIOGRAPHICAL
SKETCH
Professor George
L. Nemhauser
George
L. Nemhauser was born in New York City and was educated at the Bronx
High School of Science, City College of New York (B.Ch.E. 1958) and
Northwestern University (M.S. 1959, Ph.D. 1961).
He joined the faculty of the Johns Hopkins University as Assistant Professor
of Operations Research and Industrial Engineering in 1961. In 1970,
he was appointed Professor of Operations Research and Industrial Engineering
at Cornell University and Leon Welch Professor in 1984. He served as
School Director during the period 1977 - 1983. He came to Georgia Tech's
School of Industrial and Systems Engineering in 1985 as the A. Russell
Chandler Professor and was appointed Institute Professor in 1991. He
is also co director of the Logistics Engineering Center. He has held
visiting faculty positions at the University of Leeds, U.K. and the
University of Louvain, Belgium. At Louvain he worked at the Center for
Operations Research and Econometrics and was Research Director for 2
years.
His principal research interests are in the area of discrete optimization.
He is the author of 3 books and more than 100 papers. He has supervised
more than 40 doctoral dissertations. His current interests are in solving
large-scale mixed integer programming problems and he is actively working
on several real world problems, especially the application of discrete
optimization in logistics and transportation. He is one of the developers
of MINTO, a software system for solving mixed-integer programs.
His honors and awards include membership in the National Academy of
Engineering, Kimball medal and Lanchester prize (twice) and Morse lecturer
of ORSA. He received awards for outstanding teaching at Johns Hopkins.
He has served ORSA as Council Member, President and Editor of Operations
Research. He is the founding Editor of Operations Research
Letters. He is co-editor of Handbooks of Operations Research
and Management Science. He is the Past Chairman of the Mathematical
Programming Society.
He has served various government agencies including NSF, NIST and NRC.
He is a member of the Sports Scheduling Group.