Chinneck
Distinguished Research Professor (Emeritus)
- Ph.D. (Waterloo)
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Biographical Notes:
- 2025 Elected a 2025 Fellow of INFORMS: recognized for algorithmic contributions to the field of optimization by providing essential computational tools to diagnose and resolve infeasible models, and for sustained service to the O.R. community.
- 2024 Winner of the INFORMS Impact Prize for “seminal contributions to infeasibility analysis in optimization”.
- 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 Interests:
- 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