David L. Woodruff

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David L. Woodruff
Born (1956-12-04) December 4, 1956
OccupationsIndustrial engineer, academic and author
Academic background
EducationBS., Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management
MS., Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management
PhD., Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences
Alma materStanford University
Northwestern University
Doctoral advisorMark Spearman
Academic work
InstitutionsUniversity of California, Davis

David L. Woodruff is an American industrial engineer, academic, and author serving as Associate Dean for Academic Personnel and Distinguished Professor of Management at the University of California, Davis. He is most known for contributing to the development of Pyomo and researching computational methods for optimal decision-making under uncertainty.

Woodruff has received awards for his work, including multiple teaching awards from the University of California, Davis, the 1990 JD Scaife Award from the Institution of Manufacturing Engineers, the 2016 R&D 100 World Magazine Award for Pyomo, the 2019 Institute for Operations Research and Management Sciences (INFORMS) Computing Society Prize for Pyomo, and the 2021 INFORMS Computing Society Distinguished Service Award. Among other honors, he was elected Fellow of INFORMS in 2024 and served as Editor-in-Chief of INFORMS Journal on Computing from 2013 to 2018.

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