Pascal Van Hentenryck

A. Russell Chandler Chair and Professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology, Director of the NSF AI Institute on Advances in Optimization (AI4OPT) and Head of the AI Innovation Lab at Gurobi Optimization

Atlanta Metropolitan Area

About

AI for Engineering, especially energy, supply chains, manufacturing, health care, content management, and systems engineering.

Experience

  • Head of AI Innovation at Gurobi Optimization
    Jan 2026 - Present · 6 mos

  • Georgia Institute of Technology (7 yrs 11 mos)
    • Adjunct Professor, School of Computational Science and Engineering (CSE), College of Computing
      Mar 2024 - Present · 2 yrs 4 mos

    • Adjunct Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
      Sep 2023 - Present · 2 yrs 10 mos

    • Director, NSF AI Institute for Advances in Optimization
      Jul 2021 - Present · 5 yrs

  • University of Michigan (Ann Arbor)
    • Core Faculty, Michigan Institute of Data Science
      Mar 2016 - Jul 2018 · 2 yrs 5 mos

    • Seth Bonder Collegiate Professor of Industrial and Operations Engineering
      Oct 2015 - Jul 2018 · 2 yrs 10 mos

    • Professor of Computer Science and Engineering
      Oct 2015 - Jul 2018 · 2 yrs 10 mos

  • Research Group Leader, Optimization at NICTA
    Jan 2012 - Aug 2015 · 3 yrs 8 mos

    Led a group of about 70 researchers pushing the frontiers in optimization, simulation, data science, algorithmic decision theory, and visualization. Pursuing grand challenges in energy systems, environment and societal resilience, public transportation, and logistics and supply-chains. Seconded to NICTA from the ANU, while holding a vice-chancellor chair in data-intensive computing, and from the University of Melbourne. NICTA was merged into CSIRO on August 2015.

  • Professor of Computer Science at Brown University
    Sep 1990 - Jun 2012 · 21 yrs 10 mos