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• Subject to: Yoshiko Wakabayashi

  Yoshiko Wakabayashi is a retired professor at Universidade de São Paulo (USP), Brazil. She holds a degree in Mathematics Education and a master’s degree in Applied Mathematics from USP, as well as a PhD in Applied Mathematics from the University of Augsburg. Her research interests include combinatorial optimization, graph theory, algorithms, packing problems, and polyhedral combinatorics. She has published more than 50 papers in journals such as Mathematical Programming, Theoretical Computer Science, Journal of Combinatorial Theory: Series B, Discrete Mathematics, SIAM Journal on Computing, European Journal of Operational Research, Journal of Combinatorial Optimization, Computers & Operations Research, and Discrete Applied Mathematics. Yoshiko supervised 16 doctoral and 20 master’s students, as well as 7 postdocs. In 2010, she was named a commander of the National Order of Scientific Merit. She was later elected to the Academy of Sciences of the State of São Paulo in 2012 and to the Brazilian Academy of Sciences in 2019. In 2020, she was awarded the prize for scientific merit by the Brazilian Computer Society.

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• Subject to: Erling D. Andersen

  Erling D. Andersen is co-founder and CEO of the Danish company MOSEK ApS which is the vendor of the Mosek optimization software package. In 1993 Erling received a PhD in Economics from Odense University (Denmark). The main research interests of Erling are computational linear and convex optimization. In particular, he has focused on conic optimization and is one of the leading developers of software for that class of optimization problems. Erling has co-authored several articles published in major optimization journals such as Mathematical Programming, Informs Journal on Computing, and SIAM Journal on Optimization. Since 2024, Erling has been an honorary member of the Danish OR society.

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• Subject to: Louis-Martin Rousseau

  Louis-Martin Rousseau is a Full Professor in the Department of Mathematical and Industrial Engineering at Polytechnique Montréal, where he has been a faculty member since 2003. He holds the Canada Research Chair in Healthcare Analytics and Logistics, and is known for his applied research at the intersection of operations research, artificial intelligence, and healthcare systems. His early work focused on logistics and workforce scheduling, both in industrial and healthcare settings. Over the years, his research has evolved toward developing decision-support tools with real-world impact, particularly in the planning and optimization of health services. Outside academia, Louis-Martin has co-founded and advised several mission-driven organizations, including Gray Oncology Solutions, IVADO Labs, Kaster, and PemPem. He serves on multiple boards and is an active member of Anges Québec and Creative-Destructive Labs, where he supports science-based ventures focused on societal impact.

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• Subject to: Laureano Escudero

  Laureano Escudero received his PhD Degree in Economic Sciences from Universidad Comercial de Deusto, Bilbao, Spain, 1974, and a degree in Computer Sciences from Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain, 1972. ORCID: 0000-0002-1196-7124. He has taught Mathematical Statistics and Decision Theory at the Computer Science School, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, 1974-1977, and Mathematical Optimization at the Mathematical Sciences School, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 1992-2000. He has been full professor of Operations Research at the Universidad Miguel Hernandez de Elche (Alicante, Spain), 2000-2007 and Universidad Rey Juan Carlos (URJC), Móstoles (Madrid), Spain, 2007-2013. Currently, he is a Research Fellow ad honorem on Statistics & Operations Research and a retired Full Professor in URJC. He has been a Scholar Visitor at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), Pittsburgh (PA, USA), 2014, and at Northeastern University (NEU), Shenyang (China), 2018. He has worked at IBM Research, Scientific and Development Centers in Madrid (Spain), Palo Alto (California), Sindelfingen (Germany) and T.J. Watson Research Center (Yorktown Heights, NY), 1972-1991. He has work in the IBERDROLA group (one of the biggest electric power generation and distribution company in Europe), 1994-99. In 1987 he was appointed member of the New York Academy of Sciences. In the period 2003-4 he was the President of EURO (Association of European Operational Research Societies). He is the author of 5 books and a co-author of another one. He has published over 160 peer- reviewed scientific papers in leading journals. In 1986 he has been awarded the "Cruz al Mérito Aeronáutico con Distintivo Blanco, Primera Clase" by the Spanish Ministry of Defense for his work on Mathematical Optimization for the Spanish MoD. He is a holder of a 2020 medal by the Spanish SEIO and a 2024 medal by ALIO (Asociación Iberoamricanana de Investigación-Operativa). In 2024, SEIO jointly with Fundación BBVA awarded a prize to the "mejor contribución metodológica en el campo de la Investigación-Operativa" to the European Journal of Operational Research EJOR 2023 paper "On solving large-scale multistage stochastic optimization problems with a new specialized interior-point approach", jointly co-authored with J. Castro and J.F. Monge.

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• Subject to: Héctor Cancela

  Héctor Cancela holds a PhD. degree in Computer Science from the University of Rennes 1, INRIA Rennes, France (1996), and a Computer Systems Engineer degree from the Universidad de la República, Uruguay (1990). He is a Full Professor at the Computing Institute at the Engineering School of the Universidad de la República (Uruguay), which he lead in two periods: 2006-2010 and 2017-2023. He was Dean of the Engineering School of the Universidad de la República (2010-2015). He is a Researcher at the National Program for the Development of Basic Sciences (PEDECIBA), Uruguay. His research interests are centered in network models and stochastic models, applied jointly with optimization methods for solving problems in different areas (reliability, communications, transport, production, biological applications, agricultural applications, etc). He has published more than 100 full papers in international journals, indexed conference proceedings and book chapters. He has supervised more than 20 Ph.D. and M.Sc. thesis. He has been General Chair and Program Chair of several international events, and a member of the Program Committee of more than 50 international conferences. He participated in the development of accreditation standards for MERCOSUR engineering programs. He was member of the task force which prepared the ACM/IEEE Computing Curricula 2020 report (ACM/IEEE CC 2020). He is associate editor of the journals International Transactions in Operations Research (ITOR), RAIRO Operations Research (RAIRO-OR), Mathematical Methods of Operations Research (MMOR), Computational and Applied Mathematics (COAM), and member of the editorial board of the journals Pesquisa Operacional (Brazil) and Ingenieria de Sistemas (Chile). Between 2010 and 2019 he was editor-in-chief of CLEIej, the electronic journal of the CLEI association. He is an IEEE Senior Member, also a member of ACM. He is a former President of CLEI (Centro Latinoamericano de Estudios en Informática – 2016-2020), and a former president of ALIO (Asociación Latino Ibero Americana de Investigación Operativa – 2006-2010. He is currently president of IFORS (International Federation of Operational Research Societies, 2025-2027).

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