John Chinneck
Professor
Systems and Computer Engineering
Carleton University
Canada
Biography
2017 Winner of the COIN-OR Cup for best use of, or contribution to, the COIN-OR repository of open source software for operations research (along with ex-PhD students Mubashsharul Shafique and Laurence Smith). 2017 CORS Award of Merit “for numerous contributions to the theory and practice of Operations Research in Canada, and for significant contributions to the Canadian Operational Research Society”. 2017 Harvey J. Greenberg Award for Service from the INFORMS Computing Society 2014 NSERC Discovery Accelerator Supplement Grant 2007-2012 Editor-in-Chief of the INFORMS Journal on Computing 2006 IBM Faculty Award 2001, 2002, 2003 Listed as “Popular Prof” in Maclean’s Magazine Guide to Canadian Universities 1995 Research Achievement Award, Carleton University 1988 Scholarly Achievement Award, Carleton University
Research Interest
Optimization: algorithms and applications Concurrent algorithms for optimization, for application to very large problems Nonlinear optimization (both local and global) Mixed integer optimization (both linear and nonlinear) Feasibility in optimization Applications in numerous areas, especially classifiers, data depth, cloud computing, communications
