Brief Bio:

Willem-Jan van Hoeve is the Carnegie Bosch Professor of Operations Research at the Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University. His research focuses on discrete optimization, including algorithms, formulations, and computational methods, as well as the integration of optimization and machine learning. He has applied these methods to problems in transportation and logistics, industrial operations, financial services, and health care.

Van Hoeve has made substantial contributions to constraint and integer programming and pioneered the field of decision diagrams for optimization. His research has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the Office of Naval Research, and Google, and he has collaborated with companies including FedEx Ground, ExxonMobil, and PNC Bank, as well as nonprofit organizations such as 412 Food Rescue and Angel Flight.

At Tepper, Van Hoeve has served as Senior Associate Dean of Education and as founding Faculty Head of the MS in Business Analytics program. His honors include the INFORMS Computing Society Harvey J. Greenberg Research Award, an Honorable Mention for the INFORMS Computing Society Prize, and multiple best paper awards. He has twice received both Tepper's MBA and MSBA teaching awards. He currently serves as Area Editor for the INFORMS Journal on Computing and Associate Editor for the journals Operations Research and Artificial Intelligence.