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Information from Panos Pardalos Website: http://www.ise.ufl.edu/pardalos/index.htm

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Dr. Panos Pardalos is 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 also the Co-Director of the Center for Applied Optimization.

Dr. Pardalos obtained a PhD degree 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, Linkoping 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 Lithuanian Academy of Sciences, and Foreign Member of the Petrovskaya Academy of Sciences and Arts (Russia).

Dr. Pardalos 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 ten international journals. He is the author of 7 books and the editor of more than 40 books. He has written numerous articles and developed several well known software packages. His research is supported by National Science Foundation and other government organizations. His recent research interests include network design problems, optimization in telecommunications, e-commerce, and massive computing.

Dr. Pardalos has been an invited lecturer at many universities and research institutes around the world. He has also organized several international conferences.

Academic Awards

2003 Foreign Member of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.
2002 Outstanding Faculty Award, Dept. of Industrial and Systems Engineering, University of Florida
2001 Greek National Award for Operations Research
2001 Outstanding Faculty Award, Dept. of Industrial and Systems Engineering, University of Florida
2000 Foreign Member "Petrovskaya Academy of Sciences and Arts", Russia
1999 Outstanding Faculty Award, Dept. of Industrial and Systems Engineering, University of Florida
1999 Foreign Member "Lithuanian Academy of Sciences"
1998 Foreign Associate Member "Reial Academia de Doctors", Spain
1998 University of Florida Research Foundation Professorship
1994 Obermann Faculty Fellowship, University of Iowa Center for Advanced Studies
1991 IBM Achievement Award
1984 Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship
1983 Excellent Performance in Ph.D. Qualifying Exam
Awarded by the Computer Science Department for excellent performance in the Written Preliminary Qualifying Exam for the Ph.D. program.
1972–77 Fellowships awarded by the Greek Government


Professional Activities

Journals

  • Editor-in-Chief of the "Journal of Global Optimization", Kluwer Academic Publishers.

  • Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of "Computational Management Science", Springer-Verlag.

  • Associate Editor of the "Journal of Combinatorial Optimization", Kluwer Academic Publishers.

  • Associate Editor of the "Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications", Kluwer Academic Publishers.

  • Associate Editor of the "Journal of Concrete and Applicable Mathematics", Nova Science Publishers, Inc.

  • Associate Editor of the Journal "Optimization and Engineering", Kluwer Academic Publishers.

  • Associate Editor of the Journal "Optimization Methods and Software", Taylor & Francis Group.

  • Associate Editor of the Journal "Computational Optimization and Applications", Kluwer Academic Publishers.

  • Associate Editor of the Journal "Informatica", Institute of Mathematics and Informatics.

  • Associate Editor of the Journal "Environmental Modelling and Assessment", Kluwer Academic Publishers.

  • Associate Editor of the Journal "Computational Statistics and Data Analysis", Elsevier Science.

  • Member of the Advisory Board of the Journal "Decisions in Economics and Finance", Springer-Verlag.

  • Member of the Advisory Board of the Journal "Fuzzy Optimization and Decision Making", Kluwer Academic Publishers.

  • Member of the Editorial Board of the Electronic Journal "Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science."

  • Member of the Advisory Board of the "OR Transactions"

  • Member of the Advisory Board of "Operational Research", (The Scientific Journal of the Hellenic Operational Research Society)

  • Member of the Editorial Council of the Journal "Kibernetika i Sistemnyi Analiz (Cybernetics and Systems Analysis)", Kluwer Academic Publishers.

  • Senior Editor of "Foreign Policy (greek edition)."

Book Series

  • Book Series Editor, "Nonconvex Optimization and Applications", Kluwer Academic Publishers.

  • Book Series Editor, "Applied Optimization", Kluwer Academic Publishers.

  • Book Series Editor, "Combinatorial Optimization", Kluwer Academic Publishers.

  • Book Series Editor, "Massive Computing", Kluwer Academic Publishers.

  • Book Series Editor, "Applied Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science", Science Press.

  • Book Series Editor, "Cooperative Systems", Kluwer Academic Publishers.

  • Book Series Editor, "Biocomputing", Kluwer Academic Publishers.

  • Book Series Editor, "Computers and Operations Research", World Scientific Publishing Co.

Conference Organizer

  • Chairman and Workshop Organizer for the Workshop on ``Complexity Issues for Numerical Optimization'' (with S. Vavasis), Cornell Univ. (March 1991).

  • Chairman and Conference Organizer for the Conference on ``Recent Advances on Global Optimization'' (with C. Floudas), Princeton Univ. (May 1991).

  • Chairman and Conference Organizer for the Conference on ``Large Scale Optimization'' (with W. Hager & D. Hearn), University of Florida (February 1993).

  • Chairman and Workshop Organizer for the Workshop on ``The Quadratic Assignment Problem'' (with H. Wolkowicz), Center for Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science (DIMACS), (May 1993).

  • Chairman and Workshop Organizer for the Workshop on ``Parallel Processing of Discrete Optimization Problems'' (with M. Resende and K. G. Ramakrishnan), Center for Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science (DIMACS), (April 1994).

  • Chairman and Workshop Organizer for the Workshop on ``Global Minimization of Nonconvex Energy Functions: Molecular Conformation and Protein Folding'' (with D. Shalloway and G. Xue), Center for Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science (DIMACS), (March 1995).

  • Chairman and Workshop Organizer for the Conference on ``State of the Art in Global Optimization: Computational Methods and Applications'' (with C.A. Floudas), Princeton University, (April 1995).

  • Chairman and Conference Organizer for the Conference on ``Network Optimization'' (with W. Hager & D. Hearn), University of Florida (February 1996).

  • Chairman and Workshop Organizer for the Workshop on ``Satisfiability Problems: Theory and Applications'' (with DingZhu Du and Jun Gu), Center for Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science (DIMACS), (March 1996).

  • Chairman and Workshop Organizer for the Workshop on ``Semidefinite Programming and Interior-Point Approaches for Combinatorial Optimization Problems'' (with H. Wolkowicz), FIELDS Institute (May 15-17, 1996).

  • Chairman and Conference Organizer for the Conference on ``Optimal control: theory, algorithms, and applications'' (with W. Hager), University of Florida (February 1997).

  • Chairman and Workshop Organizer for the Workshop on ``Network Design: Connectivity and Facilities Location'' (with DingZhu Du), Center for Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science (DIMACS), April 28-30, Princeton, March 1997).

  • Chairman and Workshop Organizer for the Workshop on ``Parallel Processing of Discrete Problems'' Institute for Mathematics, Minneapolis MN (May 12-16, 1997).

  • Chairman and Workshop Organizer for the Workshop on ``Randomization Methods in Algorithm Design'' (with Sanguthevar Rajasekaran and Jose Rolim), Center for Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science (DIMACS), Dec. 12-14, 1997 - Princeton University).

  • Chairman and Workshop Organizer for the Workshop on ``Multichannel Optical Networks: Theory and Practice'' (with DingZhu Du and Peng-Jun Wan), Center for Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science (DIMACS), March 16-19, 1998 - DIMACS Center).

  • Chairman and Workshop Organizer for the ``Workshop on Randomized Parallel Computing'' (with Sanguthevar Rajasekaran), 12th IEEE International Parallel Processing Symposium (April 3, 1998, Orlando Florida).

  • Chairman and Organizer for the conference on ``Combinatorial and Global Optimization'', May 25-29, 1998, Chania, Crete, Greece.

  • Chairman for the ``International Symposium on Operations Research and its Applications (ISORA'98)'' (with X. Zhang, D.-Z. Du, and G. Yu), Kunming, China, August 20-22, 1998.

  • Chairman and Conference Organizer for the conference on ``Approximation and Complexity in Numerical Optimization: Continuous and Discrete Problems'' February 28 - March 2, 1999, Center for Applied Optimization, University of Florida.

  • Chairman and Conference Organizer for the conference on ``Optimization in Computational Chemistry and Molecular Biology: Local and Global Approaches'' (with C. Floudas) (Princeton University, May 7-9, 1999).

  • Chairman and Workshop Organizer for the Workshop on ``Mobile Networks and Computing'' (with Badri R. Badrinath, Frank Hsu and Sanguthevar Rajasekaran), Center for Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science (DIMACS), March 25-27, 1999 - DIMACS Center).

  • Conference Organizer for the ``Workshop on Global Optimization (GO.99)'' (with Marco Locatelli, Reiner Horst, and Fabio Schoen), Firenze, Italy ( Sep 28 - Oct 2, 1999 http://www.dsi.unifi.it/go.99)

  • Chairman and Workshop Organizer for the Workshop on ``Discrete Mathematical Problems with Medical Applications'' (with Ding-Zhu Du and Jie Wang),
    Center for Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science (DIMACS), Dec. 8-10, 1999 - DIMACS Center).

  • Chairman and Organizer for the conference on ``Stochastic Optimization: Algorithms and Applications'' (with S. Uryasev), February 20-22, 2000, Center for Applied Optimization, University of Florida.

  • Chairman and Organizer for the conference on ``Recent advances in non-differentiable optimization'' (with N. Shor) May, 15-18 Kyiv, Ukraine (Joint initiative of the V.M. Glushkov Institute of Cybernetics of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and University of Florida).

  • Chairman and Organizer for the conference on ``Advances in Convexity and Global Optimization'' (with N. Hadjisavas), June 5-9, 2000 - Pythagorion, Samos, Greece.

  • Chairman and Organizer for the workshop on ``Cooperative Control and Optimization '' (with R. Murphey), Dec 3 - 5, 2000, Center for Applied Optimization, University of Florida.

  • Chairman and Organizer for the ``International Conference on Biocomputing'' (with J. Principe and S. Rajasekaran), February 25-27, 2001, Center for Applied Optimization, University of Florida.

  • Chairman and Organizer} for the workshop on ``Novel Approaches to Hard Discrete Optimization'' (with Kurt Anstreicher, Franz Rendl, Tony Vannelli, and Henry Wolkowicz), April 26-28, 2001, Fields Institute.

  • Chairman and Organizer for the conference on ``Optimization and Industry'' (with V. Korotkich), July 1-6, 2001, Great Keppel Island, Queensland, Australia.

Conference Committees and Advisory Boards

  • Cluster Chairman of ``Decision and Support Systems'' (ORSA/TIMS Joint National Meeting, Nashville, May 12-15, 1991)

  • Cluster Chairman of ``Global Optimization'' (ORSA/TIMS Joint National Meeting, Phoenix, AZ, Oct. 31- Nov.3, 1993).

  • Cluster Chairman of ``Global Optimization'' (ORSA/TIMS Joint National Meeting, Boston, April 24 -27, 1994),

  • Member of the International Advisory Committee for the 15th International Symposium on Mathematical Programming (University of Michigan, Aug. 15-19, 1994).

  • Member of the Program Committee for the 3th Workshop on Global Optimization (Szeged, Hungary, Dec. 10-14, 1995).

  • Cluster Chairman of ``Global Optimization'' (INFORS Joint National Meeting, Atlanta, Nov. 3-6 , 1996),

  • Member of the International Advisory Committee for the 16th International Symposium on Mathematical Programming (Lsusanne, Aug. 24-29, 1997).

  • Member of the Advisory Committee of the DIMACS Workshop on ``Network Switching'' (July 7-9, 1998 - Princeton).

  • Member of the International Organizing Committee of the ``NATO Advanced Research on Workshop Large Scale Computations in Air Pollution Modelling (ENVIR.ARW 971731)'', Sofia, Bulgaria (July 6-10 1998).

  • Program Committee Member of ICCI'96 Conference.

  • Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the ``DIMACS Special Year 1996-1997 on Networks''.

  • Member of the Program Committee of the Workshop ``Solving Combinatorial Optimization Problems in Parallel'' (April 5, 1997 - Geneva, Switzerland).

  • Cluster Chairman of ``Global Optimization'' (INFORMS Joint National Meeting, Montreal, April 26-29, 1998).

  • Cluster Chairman of ``Global Optimization'' (INFORMS Joint National Meeting, Seattle, Oct. 25-28, 1998).

  • Member of the International Program Committee of the conference ``Third International Conference on DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER COMMUNICATION  NETWORKS (DCCN'99), Theory and Applications'' (November 9 - 13, 1999, Tel-Aviv, Israel).

  • Member of the Program Committee of the conference ``NP-completeness and Parallelism'' (JIM'99, I.U.T. de Metz, France - May 17-19, 1999)

  • Member of the Program Committee of the ``12th International Conference on Optimization Methods and Their Applications'' (Baikal, July-August 2001)

  • Member of the 1998 ``INFORMS/CSTS Prize'' Committee.

  • Member of ACM, SIAM, Mathematical Programming Society, AMS, INFORMS, New York Academy of Sciences.

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