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Robert E. Bixby is an American mathematician, the Noah Harding Professor Emeritus of Computational and Applied Mathematics at Rice University.

Bixby received a Bachelor of Science with a major in industrial engineering from the University of California, Berkeley (1968) and a Doctor of Philosophy in operations research from Cornell University (1972). 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.

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 was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 1997 for contributions to combinatorial optimization and the development and commercialization of high-performance optimization software. He is also a fellow of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences.

References

1. "Robert Bixby | Faculty | The People of Rice | Rice University". profiles.rice.edu. Retrieved 2023-04-08.
2. Robert Bixby at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
3. Rothberg, Edward. "Gurobi Optimization". O.R. & Analytics Success Stories. INFORMS. Retrieved 21 May 2023.
4. "Emeritus Faculty". rice.edu. Retrieved December 13, 2016.
5. "Robert E. Bixby". berkeley.edu. Retrieved December 13, 2016.
6. "Bixby, Robert E." worldcat.org. Retrieved December 13, 2016.
7. Fellows: Alphabetical List, Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences, retrieved 2019-10-09

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