David Williamson

  • Professor, Information Science at Cornell University

  • Director of the School of Operations Research and Information Engineering, Cornell University

Biography

David P. Williamson is the Director of the School of Operations Research and Information Engineering at Cornell University. He is also a Professor in the Department of Information Science.

He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from MIT under Professor Michel X. Goemans in 1993. He was a Research Staff Member for IBM Research at the T.J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, New York from 1995 to 2000. From 2000 to 2003, he was the Senior Manager of the Computer Science Principles and Methodologies group at IBM’s Almaden Research Center in San Jose, California. He moved to Cornell University in 2004. He served as the chair of the Department of Information Science from July 2021 to December 2023. He is an ACM Fellow and a SIAM Fellow.

Academic biography

https://www.davidpwilliamson.net/work

Research topics

Algorithms, discrete optimization