David Shmoys

David Shmoys is the Laibe/Acheson Professor of Business Management and Leadership Studies and is the Director of the Center for Data Science for Enterprise & Society at Cornell University. He obtained his Ph.D. in computer science from the University of California at Berkeley in 1984; before joining the Cornell faculty, he held postdoctoral positions at MSRI in Berkeley and Harvard University, as well as a faculty position at MIT. Professor Shmoys was the chair of the Provost’s “radical collaboration” task force on data science and associate director of the Institute of Computational Sustainability at Cornell University. His research has focused on the design and analysis of efficient algorithms for discrete optimization problems, with applications including scheduling, inventory theory, computational biology, and, most recently, computational sustainability. Professor Shmoys has been working on data-driven models in a broad cross-section of areas, including COVID-19 epidemiological modeling, congressional districting, and IoT network design.