William J. Cook

William J. Cook
William J. Cook
Born	New Jersey
Education	Rutgers University (1979); Stanford University (1980); University of Waterloo (1983);
	Scientific career
Fields	Mathematics
Institutions	University of Waterloo; Cornell University; Bell Communications Research; University of Bonn; Rice University; Georgia Tech; University of Pittsburgh ;
Thesis	On Some Aspects of Totally Dual Integral Systems (1983)
Doctoral advisor	U. S. R. Murty

William John Cook (born October 18, 1957 in New Jersey) is an American operations researcher and mathematician, and Professor of Combinatorics and Optimization at the University of Waterloo.

He was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2011 for theoretical and computational contributions to discrete optimization.

He is known for his work on the traveling salesman problem and is one of the authors of the Concorde TSP Solver.