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Dr. Tamás Terlaky is the George N. and Soteria Kledaras '87 Endowed Chair Professor, Department Chair Industrial and Systems Engineering, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA, USA.
M.Sc. Mathematics (1979, Eötvös University, Budapest), Ph.D. Operations Research (1981, Eötvös University, Budapest) , CSc (1985) and DSc (2005) from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Prior to his current appointment at Lehigh University, he has previously taught at Eötvös University, Budapest, Hungary; Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands; McMaster University, ON, Canada. At McMaster he also served as the founding Director of the School of Computational Engineering and Science.
Terlaky has published four books, edited over ten books and journal special issues, published over 160 research papers. Topics include theoretical and algorithmic foundations of operations research, such as the invention of the criss-cross method, interior point methods, worst case examples of the central path, nuclear reactor core reloading optimization, oil refinery and VLSI design optimization, robust radiation therapy treatment optimization.
Terlaky is founding editor-in-chief of the journal, Optimization and Engineering. Terlaky has served as associate editor of seven journals, he has served as conference chair, conference organizer, and distinguished invited speaker at conferences all over the World. He is member and former chair and officer of numerous professional organizations, Chair of the Continuous Optimization Steering Committee of the Mathematical Programming Society, and Fellow of the Fields Institute, Canada. He has received the MITACS Mentorship Award for his distinguished graduate student supervisory record. Dr. Terlaky’s research interests include high-performance optimization methods, optimization models, algorithms and software, and solving optimization problems in engineering sciences.
