Biography

Jean-Philippe Richard  is a Professor in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, where he is director of Faculty and Academic Affairs. Prior to joining the University of Minnesota in 2018, Dr. Richard was a faculty member at Purdue University (2002-2008) and at the University of Florida (2008-2018) where he was PhD coordinator. Dr. Richard holds a bachelor of engineering in Applied Mathematics from Université Catholique de Louvain and a PhD in Algorithms, Combinatorics, and Optimization from Georgia Institute of Technology.  

Dr. Richard's research interests are in the area of nonconvex optimization, and in particular, in mixed integer linear and nonlinear programming. He is particularly interested in methods for obtaining globally optimal solutions to these problems using techniques from polyhedral theory, discrete mathematics, and convex analysis. Over the years, Dr. Richard has applied these techniques in various application areas, including infrastructure systems, transportation, data analysis, and medicine. His methodological research has been funded by the National Science Foundation; his applied work has been funded by class-I US railroads including UPRR and CSX. 

Dr. Richard has served as the vice chair for Integer Programming for the INFORMS Optimization Society (2006-2008) and has served on the program committees of the Mixed Integer Programming Workshop (2007,2008) and the Integer Programming and Combinatorial Optimization Conference (2014). He was also a cluster organizer for Global Optimization and for MINLP at the International Symposium on Mathematical Programming (ISMP) in 2015 and 2018, respectively. He currently serves as an associate editor for Mathematics of Operations Research, Journal on Global Optimization, Optimization Letters, IISE Transactions, IMA Journal on Management Mathematics, and Operations Research Forum.

• Positions 

  • Director of Faculty and Academic Affairs, Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering,  University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN (2018-Present)

  • Professor, Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN (2018-Present)

  • Professor, Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL (2015-2018)

  • PhD Coordinator, Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL (2013-2018)

  • Associate Professor, Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL (2008-2015)

  • Assistant Professor, School of Industrial Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN (2002-2008)

  • Research Assistant, School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology (1998-2002)

  • Instructor, School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology (Spring 2002)

  • Teaching Assistant, School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology (Fall 2001)

  • Intern, Axioma Inc., Marietta, GA. (Summer 2000)

  • Intern, Norfolk Southern, Atlanta, GA (Summer 1999)

  • Intern, PCPM, Louvain-La-Neuve, Belgium (Summer 1996)

• Education

  • Ph.D. in Algorithms, Combinatorics, and Optimization (1998-2002)

    • Dissertation title: “Lifted Inequalities for 0-1 Mixed Integer Programming”

    • Advisor: George L. Nemhauser

    • School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA

  • Bachelor in Applied Mathematics Engineering (1993-1998)

    • Thesis title: “Problèmes de Production Multi-Niveaux en Temps Continu” 

    • Advisor: Laurence A. Wolsey

    • Faculté des Sciences Appliquées, Université Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-La-Neuve, Belgium

• Research

  • University of Florida Term Professorship (2017-2019)

  • IIE Transactions Best Application Paper Award (2008)

  • NSF CAREER award (2004)

  • Sigma Xi Best Ph.D. Thesis Award, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta (2003)

  • INFORMS Doctoral Colloquium, Miami (2001)

• Teaching

  • Russell J. Penrose ISyE Excellence in Teaching Award (2023)

  • Thank a teacher note, CEI, University of Minnesota (2019, 2021, 2022)

  • Outstanding Faculty Member Award, OEM program, University of Florida (2018)

  • Industrial Engineering Nominee, Potter Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Award, Purdue University (2006-2007)

  • First Place, Pritsker Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Award, School of Industrial Engineering, Purdue University (2006-2007)

  • First Place, James H. Greene Graduate Educator Award, School of Industrial Engineering, Purdue University (2006-2007)

  • Second Place, Pritsker Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Award, School of Industrial Engineering, Purdue University (2005-2006)

  • First Place, James H. Greene Graduate Educator Award, School of Industrial Engineering, Purdue University (2004-2005)

  • Third Place, Pritsker Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Award, School of Industrial Engineering, Purdue University (2004-2005)

• Editorial

  • Associate Editor, Mathematics of Operations Research (2023-Present) [here]

  • Associate Editor, Operations Research Forum (2019-Present)  [here] 

  • Associate Editor, Journal on Global Optimization (2017-Present)  [here] 

  • Associate Editor, II(S)E Transactions - Optimization and Computation (2013-Present) [here] 

  • Associate Editor, Optimization Letters (2013-Present)  [here] 

  • Associate Editor, IMA Journal of Management Mathematics (2011-Present) [here] 

• Conference Organization

  • Cluster organizer (with J. Linderoth and A. Lodi), MINLP, ISMP 2018, Bordeaux.

  • Cluster organizer (with M. Tawarmalani), Global Optimization, ISMP 2015, Pittsburgh.

  • Program committee member, IPCO 2014, Bonn, Germany.

  • Program committee member, MIP Workshop 2008, New York.

  • Program committee member, MIP Workshop 2007, Montreal, Canada.

• Award committees:

  • Committee member, IISE transactions (OE & Analytics) best paper award (2020)

  • Judge/committee member, INFORMS’ Junior Faculty Interest Group (JFIG) paper competition (2017, 2018, 2020)

  • Committee member, Optimization Letters best paper award (2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020)

  • Committee member, JOGO best paper award (2018, 2019)

  • Committee member, INFORMS’ George Nicholson student paper competition (2009, 2010, 2017, 2018)

  • Committee member, IIE Transactions best paper award (2015) 

  • Committee member, INFORMS’ Optimization Society young researcher award (2014)

  • Committee member, INFORMS’ Optimization Society student paper competition (2011)

  • Committee member, SIAM’s SIAG/Optimization prize. (2009)

• University of Minnesota, Twin Cities:  [here] 

• Industrial and Systems Engineering @ UMN-TC:  [here] 

• ACO at Georgia Institute of Technology: [here] 

• Université Catholique de Louvain:  [here] 

• Google Scholar:  [here] 

• Experts@Minnesota:  [here] 

• CV: [here]