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Robert E. Bixby

Robert E. Bixby is an American mathematician, the Noah Harding Professor Emeritus of Computational and Applied Mathematics at Rice University.

Bixby earned his Ph.D. in 1972 from Cornell University. His dissertation, Composition and Decomposition of Matroids and Related Topics, concerned matroid theory and was supervised by Louis Billera. His doctoral students have included Collette Coullard at Northwestern University, and Eva K. Lee at Rice.[1]

He is the President and Co-founder of Gurobi Optimization. In 1987 he co-founded CPLEX Optimization, which was acquired by ILOG in 1997.

Bixby was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 1997 for contributions to combinatorial optimization and the development and commercialization of high-performance optimization software.[2][3][4] He is also a fellow of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences.[5]

References

  1. ^ Robert Bixby at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  2. ^ "Emeritus Faculty". rice.edu. Retrieved December 13, 2016.
  3. ^ "Robert E. Bixby". berkeley.edu. Retrieved December 13, 2016.
  4. ^ "Bixby, Robert E." worldcat.org. Retrieved December 13, 2016.
  5. ^ Fellows: Alphabetical List, Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences, retrieved 2019-10-09

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