Bio

Jeff Linderoth is a Professor in the departments of Industrial and Systems Engineering and Computer Sciences (by courtesy) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, joining both departments in 2007. Dr. Linderoth received his Ph.D. degree from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1998. From 1998-2000, he was employed with the Mathematics and Computer Science Division at Argonne National Laboratory, and from 2000-2002, he was a Senior Consultant with the optimization-based financial products firm of Axioma Inc. Prior to joining University of Wisconsin-Madison, from 2002-2007, he was a Assistant Professor at Lehigh University, where he co-founded COR@L (the Center for Optimization Research @ Lehigh). In 1999, Dr. Linderoth was named the Enrico Fermi Scholar at Argonne National Lab. In 2002, Dr. Linderoth was a co-recipient of the SIAM/Activity Group on Optimization Prize, and in 2005 he was awarded an Early Career Development Award from the Department of Energy and an IBM Faculty Partnership award. Dr. Linderoth currently serves on the editorial boards of the 4 journals, as secretary of the Committee on Stochastic Programming (COSP), and as a Committee-Member-at-Large for the Mathematical Optimization Society

If you are an absolute glutton for punishment, you can read a (sure to be outdated) CV

Academic Lineage

My academic lineage can be traced all the way back to Euler, the Bernoullis, and Leibniz, which just goes to show how far the apple can fall from the tree after 15 generations or so.

Here is the lineage, courtesy of the great site The Mathematics Genealogy Project
Jeff Linderoth -> Martin Savelsbergh -> Jan Karel Lenstra -> Gijsbert de Leve Jan Hemelrijk -> David van Dantzig -> Bartel Leendert van der Waerden -> Hendrick de Vries -> Diederik Johannes Korteweg -> Johannes Diderik van der Waals -> Pieter (Petrus) Leonard (Leonardus) Rijke -> Pieter Johannes Uylenbroek-> Cornelius Ekama -> Antonius Chaudoir -> Jan Hendrik van Swinden -> Johann Friedrich Hennert -> Leonhard Euler -> Johann Bernoulli -> Jacob Bernoulli -> Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz -> Erhard Weigel

A few other interesting tidbits:

My (academic) great, great, great, great, great, great, great grandfather was the Nobel-Prize winning physicist Johannes Diderik van der Waals.

My (academic) great, great, great, great, great grandfather Hendrick de Vries was also the thesis advisor of Max Euwe, the fifth world chess champion. I am sure that "Uncle Max" spins in his grave every time I push a piece.

Just for fun

I like to think of myself as a cross between Newman and Angelina Jolie. (Courtesty of myheritage.com)

The proudest moment of my academic career occurred in 2010 when I was awarded the trophy for the Stochastic Programming Tennis Champion. (Thanks to Suvrajeet Sen for the blurry photo).