Issmail Elhallaoui

Issmail Elhallaoui received the engineering degree from ENSIAS, Rabat, in 1996, and the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in operations research from Polytechnique Montréal, in 2002 and 2006, respectively. He is currently a Full Professor of operations research with Polytechnique Montréal. He occupied visiting positions at some prestigious universities like Massachussets Institute of Technology (MIT), USA, and University of Waterloo, Canada. He pioneered several exact primal approaches for efficient (re)optimization of hard combinatorial problems, namely in transportation. He is also active in the field of real time optimization. His research is well supported by Canadian (NSERC) and Quebecer (FRQNT) funding centers and by the industry. He was distinguished by appearing in “Recherche en Vedette” of FRQNT, in 2019.