Collette René Coullard is an American mathematician, industrial engineer, operations researcher, and matroid theorist known for her research on combinatorial optimization problems that combine facility location and stock management.
[3] She taught at Purdue University and the University of Waterloo[4] before returning to Northwestern as a faculty member in 1990,[2] and retired as a mathematics professor from Lake Superior State University in 2018.
[5] She has also visited the University of Bonn as a Humboldt Fellow.
[4] Coullard was a Charles Deering McCormick Professor of Teaching Excellence at Northwestern University from 1996 to 1999.
[1][2] In 2003, the Lake Superior State University Alumni Association gave her their annual Kenneth J. Shouldice Achievement Award.