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About Robert E. Bixby
- Robert E.
- Bixby is an American mathematician, the Noah Harding Professor Emeritus of Computational and Applied Mathematics at Rice University.
- He is a Fellow of the National Academy of Engineering and the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences.
- He is the President and Co-founder of Gurobi Optimization.
- In 1987 he co-founded CPLEX Optimization, which was acquired by ILOG in 1997.
- Bixby earned his Ph.D.
- in 1972 from Cornell University.
- His dissertation, Composition and Decomposition of Matroids and Related Topics, concerned matroid theory and was supervised by Louis Billera.
- His doctoral students have included Collette Coullard at Northwestern University, and Eva K.
- Lee at Rice.
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