Rate Professor David Woodruff

Academic Profile

Academic Background:

• Ph.D., Operations Research, University of California, Berkeley
• M.S., Operations Research, UC Berkeley

Research Interests: Computational aspects of optimal decision-making, stochastic mixed-integer resource allocation, and energy planning.

Appointments:

• Distinguished Professor, Graduate School of Management, UC Davis
• Former Editor-in-Chief, INFORMS Journal on Computing (2013–2019)

Awards:

• INFORMS Computing Society Prize, 2019 (for Pyomo)
• R&D 100 Award, 2016 (for Pyomo)

Publications:

• “Progressive Hedging Innovations for a Class of Stochastic Mixed-integer Resource Allocation Problems” (Computational Management Science, Best Paper Award, 2011)

Additional Contributions: Co-developer of Pyomo, an open-source optimization modeling language.