Frans Schalekamp

Frans Schalekamp received his Ph.D. in Operations Research from Cornell University in 2007. He has worked both in academia and in industry on three continents, in areas ranging from plant breeding and genetics to logistics. Former academic positions were at the Institute for Theoretical Computer Science at Tsinghua University in Beijing, China; the Department of Mathematics at the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, VA; and the Computer Science Department at Cornell University. Professor Schalekamp held positions in industry as a research scientist at NatureSourceGenetics in Ithaca, NY, and as a senior analyst at CarMax in Richmond, VA.