Gérard P. Cornuéjols

Gerard Cornuejols is a distinguished professor at Carnegie Mellon University, affiliated with the Tepper School of Business. He is an expert in operations research, particularly in integer programming and combinatorial optimization. His research has significantly advanced the understanding of cutting planes, polyhedral combinatorics, and the structure of integer programs. He has made notable contributions to the theory of valid inequalities, the study of the Chvatal-Gomory closure, and the development of algorithms for solving mixed-integer linear programs. Cornuejols has also worked on applications in finance, including portfolio optimization and risk management. He has received numerous awards for his research, including the INFORMS Lanchester Prize (2015), the INFORMS John von Neumann Theory Prize (2011), and the SIAM and MOS Dantzig Prize (2009). In addition to his academic work, he has been actively involved in university service, including committee work and public engagement initiatives.

Gerard Cornuejols is a Professor of Operations Research specializing in Optimization, Graph Theory, and Operations Research. His research focuses on integer programming, combinatorial optimization, and algorithmic frameworks for solving complex optimization problems. He has contributed significantly to the development of cutting plane methods, mixed integer nonlinear programming, and the analysis of polyhedral structures in optimization. His work includes studies on facility location, traveling salesman problems, and submodular set functions. Cornuejols has published extensively on exact and approximate algorithms, relaxations, and heuristics for various optimization problems, emphasizing both theoretical and practical applications.