Thomas L. Magnanti
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Thomas L. Magnanti is an American engineer and Institute Professor
and former Dean of the School of Engineering
at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
. Magnanti is currently President of the Singapore University of Technology and Design
established in collaboration with MIT.
from Syracuse University
(1967) and master's degrees in both Statistics (1969) and Mathematics (1971) from Stanford University
, where he also received his doctorate in Operations Research
(1972).
Dr. Magnanti is Institute Professor
and former Dean of the School of Engineering
at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
. He has served on thesis committees for approximately 70 doctoral students, supervising over 25. He is slated to be the president of Singapore's fourth university, Singapore University of Technology and Design
when it opens in 2011.
Magnanti has been Editor-in-Chief of the journal Operations Research
.
Magnanti is a member of the National Academy of Engineering
and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
. He was a founding co-director of MIT's Leaders for Manufacturing Program (now the Leaders for Global Operations
program) and the System Design and Management (MIT) program. He is a past President of the Operations Research Society of America (ORSA) and of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences
(INFORMS).
He has received honorary doctorates from Linköping University
, the Université de Montréal
, and the Université Catholique de Louvain
. He has also won the MIT Billard Award and ORSA George E. Kimball Medal for distinguished service.
and operations research
, specifically on the theory and application of large-scale optimization, particularly in the areas of network flow
s, nonlinear programming
, and combinatorial optimization
. He has conducted research on such topics as production planning and scheduling, transportation planning, facility location, logistics, and communication systems design. He is also known for pioneering an educational philosophy that combines engineering and management.
, Magnanti has a total of 30 doctoral students (total of 104 descendants) including Anantaram Balakrishnan (11 descendants), Gabriel Bitran (14), Bruce Golden (21), Georgia Perakis (11) and Richard Wong (9).
Institute Professor
Institute Professor is the highest title that can be awarded to a faculty member at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a research university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States...
and former Dean of the School of Engineering
MIT School of Engineering
The MIT School of Engineering is one of the five schools of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. Generally considered having one of the best engineering programs in the world, the school has eight academic departments and one interdisciplinary...
at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is a private research university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts. MIT has five schools and one college, containing a total of 32 academic departments, with a strong emphasis on scientific and technological education and research.Founded in 1861 in...
. Magnanti is currently President of the Singapore University of Technology and Design
Singapore University of Technology and Design
The Singapore University of Technology and Design will be Singapore's fourth autonomous university. It is developed in collaboration...
established in collaboration with MIT.
Biography
Magnanti received an undergraduate degree in Chemical EngineeringChemical engineering
Chemical engineering is the branch of engineering that deals with physical science , and life sciences with mathematics and economics, to the process of converting raw materials or chemicals into more useful or valuable forms...
from Syracuse University
Syracuse University
Syracuse University is a private research university located in Syracuse, New York, United States. Its roots can be traced back to Genesee Wesleyan Seminary, founded by the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1832, which also later founded Genesee College...
(1967) and master's degrees in both Statistics (1969) and Mathematics (1971) from Stanford University
Stanford University
The Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private research university on an campus located near Palo Alto, California. It is situated in the northwestern Santa Clara Valley on the San Francisco Peninsula, approximately northwest of San...
, where he also received his doctorate in Operations Research
Operations research
Operations research is an interdisciplinary mathematical science that focuses on the effective use of technology by organizations...
(1972).
Dr. Magnanti is Institute Professor
Institute Professor
Institute Professor is the highest title that can be awarded to a faculty member at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a research university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States...
and former Dean of the School of Engineering
MIT School of Engineering
The MIT School of Engineering is one of the five schools of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. Generally considered having one of the best engineering programs in the world, the school has eight academic departments and one interdisciplinary...
at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is a private research university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts. MIT has five schools and one college, containing a total of 32 academic departments, with a strong emphasis on scientific and technological education and research.Founded in 1861 in...
. He has served on thesis committees for approximately 70 doctoral students, supervising over 25. He is slated to be the president of Singapore's fourth university, Singapore University of Technology and Design
Singapore University of Technology and Design
The Singapore University of Technology and Design will be Singapore's fourth autonomous university. It is developed in collaboration...
when it opens in 2011.
Magnanti has been Editor-in-Chief of the journal Operations Research
Operations research
Operations research is an interdisciplinary mathematical science that focuses on the effective use of technology by organizations...
.
Magnanti is a member of the National Academy of Engineering
National Academy of Engineering
The National Academy of Engineering is a government-created non-profit institution in the United States, that was founded in 1964 under the same congressional act that led to the founding of the National Academy of Sciences...
and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
The American Academy of Arts and Sciences is an independent policy research center that conducts multidisciplinary studies of complex and emerging problems. The Academy’s elected members are leaders in the academic disciplines, the arts, business, and public affairs.James Bowdoin, John Adams, and...
. He was a founding co-director of MIT's Leaders for Manufacturing Program (now the Leaders for Global Operations
MIT Sloan School of Management
The MIT Sloan School of Management is the business school of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in Cambridge, Massachusetts....
program) and the System Design and Management (MIT) program. He is a past President of the Operations Research Society of America (ORSA) and of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences
Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences
The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences is an international society for practitioners in the fields of operations research and management science...
(INFORMS).
He has received honorary doctorates from Linköping University
Linköping University
Linköping University is a state university in Linköping, Sweden. Linköping University was granted full university status in 1975 and is now one of Sweden's larger academic institutions. Education, research and PhD training are the mission of four faculties: Arts and Sciences, Educational...
, the Université de Montréal
Université de Montréal
The Université de Montréal is a public francophone research university in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It comprises thirteen faculties, more than sixty departments and two affiliated schools: the École Polytechnique and HEC Montréal...
, and the Université Catholique de Louvain
Université catholique de Louvain
The Université catholique de Louvain, sometimes known, especially in Belgium, as UCL, is Belgium's largest French-speaking university. It is located in Louvain-la-Neuve and in Brussels...
. He has also won the MIT Billard Award and ORSA George E. Kimball Medal for distinguished service.
Work
Magnanti's teaching and research interests are in applied and theoretical aspects of large-scale optimizationOptimization (mathematics)
In mathematics, computational science, or management science, mathematical optimization refers to the selection of a best element from some set of available alternatives....
and operations research
Operations research
Operations research is an interdisciplinary mathematical science that focuses on the effective use of technology by organizations...
, specifically on the theory and application of large-scale optimization, particularly in the areas of network flow
Network flow
In graph theory, a flow network is a directed graph where each edge has a capacity and each edge receives a flow. The amount of flow on an edge cannot exceed the capacity of the edge. Often in Operations Research, a directed graph is called a network, the vertices are called nodes and the edges are...
s, nonlinear programming
Nonlinear programming
In mathematics, nonlinear programming is the process of solving a system of equalities and inequalities, collectively termed constraints, over a set of unknown real variables, along with an objective function to be maximized or minimized, where some of the constraints or the objective function are...
, and combinatorial optimization
Combinatorial optimization
In applied mathematics and theoretical computer science, combinatorial optimization is a topic that consists of finding an optimal object from a finite set of objects. In many such problems, exhaustive search is not feasible...
. He has conducted research on such topics as production planning and scheduling, transportation planning, facility location, logistics, and communication systems design. He is also known for pioneering an educational philosophy that combines engineering and management.
Other awards
- Journal Networks: Glover-Klingman Prize| best paper published during the year (2005)
- American Academy of Arts and Sciences: Fellow (2000)
- Operations Research Society of America: Lanchester Prize| Best Publication in Operations Research (1993)
- National Academy of Engineering: Member (1991)
- MIT: Irwin Sizer Award for Significant Innovations in MIT Education (2001)
- Linköping University: Honorary Doctorate
- University of Montreal: Honorary Doctorate
- Université Catholique de Louvain: Honorary Doctorate
- The Technion: Honorary Doctorate
Publications
- Applied Mathematical Programming
- Network Flows: Theory, Algorithms and Applications
- Lagrange and Fenchel Duality Are Equivalent, Mathematical Programming, 7, 253-258, 1974.
- Network Design and Transportation Planning: Models and Algorithms (with R. T. Wong), Transportation Science, 18(1), 1-55, 1984.
- Extremum Properties of Hexagonal Partitioning and the Uniform Distribution in Euclidean Location (with M. Haimovich), SIAM Journal on Discrete MathematicsSIAM Journal on Discrete MathematicsSIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics is a peer-reviewed mathematics journal published quarterly by SIAM.The journal includes articles on pure and applied discrete mathematics....
, (1), 50-64, February 1988. - Separable Concave Optimization Approximately Equals Piecewise Linear Optimization (with Dan Stratila), IPCO Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 3064, 234-243, 2004.
- Strong Formulations for Network Design Problems with Connectivity Requirements (with S. Raghavan), Networks, 45 (2): 61-79, 2005.
- An Intersecting Tree Model for Odd-Diameter-Constrained Minimum Spanning and Steiner Trees (with Luis Gouveia and Cristina Requejo), Annals of Operations Research, 146: 19-39, 2006
- Variable Disaggregation in Network Flow Problems with Piecewise Linear Costs (with K. Croxton and B. Gendron), Operations Research 55 (1):146-157, 2007.
Doctoral students
According to the Mathematics Genealogy ProjectMathematics Genealogy Project
The Mathematics Genealogy Project is a web-based database for the academic genealogy of mathematicians. As of September, 2010, it contained information on approximately 145,000 mathematical scientists who contribute to "research-level mathematics"...
, Magnanti has a total of 30 doctoral students (total of 104 descendants) including Anantaram Balakrishnan (11 descendants), Gabriel Bitran (14), Bruce Golden (21), Georgia Perakis (11) and Richard Wong (9).
External links
- MIT Bio
- Tom Magnanti Playlist Appearance on WMBR's Dinnertime Sampler radio show October 20, 2004
- Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD)