Gérard Cornuéjols

His research interests include facility location, integer programming, balanced matrices, and perfect graphs.

Cornuéjols graduated from École nationale des ponts et chaussées and earned his Ph.D. in 1978 from Cornell University under the supervision of George Nemhauser, with a dissertation concerning facility location.

[7] In 2000, he won the Fulkerson Prize with Michele Conforti and Mendu Rammohan Rao for their work on algorithms for recognizing balanced matrices.

[9] In 2011, he won the John von Neumann Theory Prize of INFORMS "for his fundamental and broad contributions to discrete optimization including his deep research on balanced and ideal matrices, perfect graphs and cutting planes for mixed-integer optimization".

[10] In 2016, he was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering for contributions to the theory, practice, and application of integer programming..[11]