Fall 2007 Seminar Series

Pascal Van Hentenryck is professor of computer science at Brown University. Before coming to Brown in 1990, he spent four years at the European Computer-Industry Research Center (ECRC), where he designed the pioneering constraint programming system CHIP. During the last 15 years, he developed a number of influential systems, including Numerica, OPL, and Comet. Most of these systems are described in books published by the MIT Press and have been licensed to industry. Pascal is the recipient of an 1993 NSF National Young Investigator (NYI) award, the 2002 INFORMS ICS Award for research excellence at the interface between computer science and operations research, and the 2006 ACP Award for Research Excellence in Constraint Programming, best paper awards at CP'03, CP'04, and IJCAI'07. He is the author of five books (all published by the MIT Press) and of more than 150 scientific papers.