Bob Fourer
Founder & Director at Northwestern University
Evanston, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBob Fourer is a founder, director, and longtime academic leader who has translated deep operations research expertise into practical optimization software and company leadership. A Stanford Ph.D. and MIT-trained mathematician, he co-invented the widely used AMPL modeling language while a Northwestern professor and later built AMPL Optimization, Inc. to commercialize and support optimization modeling tools. His research contributions and editorial leadership in optimization earned him INFORMS Fellowship and the Beale-Orchard-Hays Prize, reflecting impact in both theory and computation. Based in Evanston, he continues to bridge academia and industry as Professor Emeritus and company director, combining rigorous algorithmic insight with product-minded entrepreneurship.
19 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., Mathematics, B.S., Mathematics at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyPh.D., Operations Research, Ph.D., Operations Research at Stanford University
Github Skills (14)
integer-linear-programming9
ampl9
integer-programming8
gnu8
mathematical-programming8
mixed-integer-programming7
nonlinear-optimization7
coin-or7
cmake6
linear-optimization6
optimization5
nonlinear-programming5
python5
linear-programming5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
ampl/awesome-ampl
Sep 2020 - Mar 2022
A curated list of awesome stuff made by the AMPL community.
Contributions:3 commits, 3 pushes in 1 year 6 months
ampl
fdabrandao/MO-book-with-AMPL
Jun 2023 - Aug 2023
Mathematical Opimization
Contributions:32 pushes in 1 month
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