Gijsbert "Gijs" de Leve (15 August 1926 – 19 November 2009)[1] was a Dutch mathematician and operations researcher, known for his work on Markov decision process.
[2] Gijs de Leve is considered the founder of operations research in the Netherlands.
There he also received his PhD cum laude in 1964 for the thesis Generalized Markovian decision processes, advised by Jan Hemelrijk and Johannes Runnenburg.
[4] De Leve was appointed professor in operations research, in particular management scientific applications, at the University of Amsterdam in 1972.
[5] Among his doctorate students were Henk Tijms (1972), Alexander Rinnooy Kan (1976), Jan Karel Lenstra (1976), P. Weeda (1978), Awi Federgruen (1978), Antoon Kolen (1982), Roy Jonker (1986), Anton Volgenant (1987), Jeroen de Kort (1992), Erik H.J.