Juan Pablo Vielma

Assistant Professor
Department of Industrial Engineering
University of Pittsburgh



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Background:

I obtained a Bachelor in Mathematical Engineering and a Mathematical Engineering Professional Degree from the Department of Mathematical Engineering of the University of Chile under the supervision of Professor Andrés Weintraub. In 2009 I completed my Ph.D. at the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISyE) of Georgia Institute of Technology under the supervision of Professor George L. Nemhauser and Professor Shabbir Ahmed. I then spent a year (August 2009 - August 2010) at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center as the 2009 Herman Goldstine Postdoctoral Fellow. During this time I was also on leave from a position as a visiting assistant professor at the Department of Industrial Engineering at University of Pittsburgh. I rejoined the department as a Tenure Track Assistant Professor in September 2010.

Interests:

• Theory and technology for Linear, Non-linear and Stochastic Mixed Integer Programming.
• Optimization Models in Natural Resource Management and Environmental Protection.

Research:

My Publications and Presentations.

Collaborators:

Shabbir Ahmed, Daniel Dadush, Sanjeeb Dash, Santanu S. Dey, Rodolfo Carvajal, Miguel Constantino, Daniel Espinoza, Alexandre S. Freire, Marcos Goycoolea, Oktay Günlük, Ahmet B. Keha, Eduardo Moreno, Alan T. Murray, George L. Nemhauser, Luis Rademacher, David M. Ryan, Alejandro Toriello, Andres Weintraub.

Grants:

• NSF grant CMMI-1030662: Fundamentals of Convex Mixed Integer Nonlinear Programming, 2010-2013.

Data Sets:

• Portfolio Optimization Instances

Teaching:

• IE-3080: Robust Optimization.

Service:

I am currently the Chair of the INFORMS Section on Energy, Natural Resources, and the Environment (ENRE).

Program committees:

• 14th Symposium for Systems Analysis in Forest Resources (SSAFR 2010), Maitencillo, Chile, March 8--11, 2011
• 8th Mixed Integer Programming Workshop (MIP 2011), Waterloo, ON, June 20--23, 2011
• 9th Mixed Integer Programming Workshop (MIP 2012), University of California, Davis, July 16--19, 2012

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