David Williamson

David Williamson is a Professor at Cornell University in the School of Operations Research and Information Engineering and is currently Chair of 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. His research focuses on finding efficient algorithms for hard discrete optimization problems, with a focus on approximation algorithms for problems in network design, facility location, and scheduling.