Dr. Irvin Lustig is the Manager of Technical Services for ILOG
Direct, ILOG's direct sales division. Prior to this position, he
was the product manager for the ILOG CPLEX and ILOG OPL Studio
products. He was one of the lead developers of CPLEX, including
the CPLEX Barrier Solver. Prior to joining ILOG, Dr. Lustig was
a professor at Princeton University during which time he was awarded
the 1991 Beale-Orchard Hayes Prize for Excellence in Computational
Mathematical Programming from the Mathematical Programming Society,
and the 1992 Operations Research Society Computer Technical Section
Prize. Dr. Lustig received his PhD in Operations Research from
Stanford University and a ScB in Applied Mathematics/Computer Science
from Brown University. He is the author of over 30 scientific research
papers. He is currently a candidate for Vice President of Marketing
and Outreach for INFORMS.