Bernard Gendron

Professor Département d'informatique et de recherche opérationnelle (DIRO) Université de Montréal C.P. 6128,  Succursale Centre-Ville Montréal, Québec, Canada H3C 3J7 gendron AT iro.umontreal.ca Researcher Interuniversity Research Centre on Enterprise Networks, Logistics and Transportation (CIRRELT) Université de Montréal C.P. 6128,  Succursale Centre-Ville Montréal, Québec, Canada H3C 3J7 Bernard.Gendron AT cirrelt.ca

Research Interests

My field of research is combinatorial optimization. My interests encompass both the theory, the methodological developments, and the applications of the field, and include:

• polyhedral theory for general integer programming models and for particular classes of integer programming models (most notably, network design models);
• relaxation and decomposition methods for integer programming models (cutting-plane, column generation, Lagrangean relaxation);
• exact and heuristic approaches for integer programming models;
• metaheuristics based on neighborhood search and diversification approaches for hard combinatorial optimization problems;
• constraint programming methods;
• parallel methods for solving large-scale hard combinatorial optimization problems;
• various applications in the fields of logistics, transportation, telecommunications and health care.

Publications

Here is a list of available papers. An updated list of my publications can be found in the detailed curriculum vitae.

Curriculum vitae

Bernard Gendron is a Professor at the Département d'informatique et de recherche opérationelle, Université de Montréal. His research interests focus on the optimization of logistics and transportation networks. He has served as Director of CIRRELT, the Interuniversity Research Centre on Enterprise Networks, Logistics and Transportation (2008-2015). He has held positions of Principal Scientist at ILOG, Paris, and of Visiting Professor at MIT, EPFL, Centrale Lille, Pisa, Nice-Sophia-Antipolis, Blaise-Pascal, Versailles and Valenciennes. He has served as Chair of the Canadian Operational Research Society (CORS), Chair of the Montreal Chapter of CORS, and Chair of the Section on Transportation Science & Logistics of INFORMS (the Institue for Operations Research and the Management Sciences). He was awarded the CORS Practice Prize (2004), the CORS Service Award (2006) and the CORS Merit Award (2010) (for more details).

Other Activities

• Program committee member, Odysseus 2018
• Editorial board member, EURO Journal on Transportation and Logistics, 2012-...
• Past Editor-in-Chief, INFOR, 2006-2014
• Past President, Canadian Operational Research Society (CORS), 2005-2006, 2005-2006
• Past President, Montréal Section, CORS, 2000-2007
• Past President, INFORMS Section on Transportation Science & Logistics (TSL), 2002-2003
• Member, CORS
• Member, INFORMS
• Member, INFORMS TSL

2019/08/07