Panos M. Pardalos is Distinguished
Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the University of
Florida. He is also affiliated faculty member of the Computer Science
Department, the Hellenic Studies Center, and the Biomedical
Engineering Program. He is the Co-Director of the Center for
Applied Optimization. He obtained a Ph.D. degree (1985) from the
University of Minnesota in Computer and Information Sciences. He
has held visiting appointments at Princeton University, DIMACS Center,
Institute of Mathematics and Applications, FIELDS Institute, AT&T
Labs Research, Trier University, Linköping Institute of
Technology, and
universities in Greece. He has received numerous awards
including, University of Florida Research Foundation Professor, Foreign
Member of the Royal Academy of Doctors (Spain), Foreign Member of the
Lithuanian Academy of Sciences, Foreign Member of the National Academy
of Sciences of Ukraine, and Foreign Member of the Petrovskaya
Academy of Sciences and Arts (Russia). He is a Fellow of AAAS
(American Association for the Advancement of Science), and in 2001 he
was honored with the Greek National Award and Gold Medal for Operations
Research. He is a world leading expert in global and
combinatorial optimization. He is the editor-in-chief of the Journal of
Global Optimization, managing editor of several book series, and a
member of the editorial board of twenty international journals.
He is the author of seven books and the editor of more than 50 books.
He has written numerous articles and developed several well known
software packages. His research is supported by National Science
Foundation, NIH, and other government organizations. His recent
research interests include network design problems, biomedical
applications, datamining, optimization in telecommunications,
e-commerce, and massive computing. He has been an invited
lecturer at many universities and research institutes around the
world. He has also organized several international conferences.
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