Bio

Craig Tovey is a professor in ISyE and in the College of Computing at Georgia Tech. He received an A.B. in applied mathematics from Harvard College in 1977 and both an M.S. in computer science and a Ph.D. in operations research from Stanford University in 1981. Dr. Tovey's principal research and teaching activities are in operations research and its interdisciplinary applications to social and natural systems. He received a Presidential Young Investigator Award in 1985 and the 1989 Jacob Wolfowitz Prize for research in heuristics. He was granted a Senior Research Associateship from the National Research Council in 1990, and was named an Institute Fellow at Georgia Tech in 1994. He is a member of INFORMS, Sigma XI, and Phi Eta Sigma. His current research concerns the effectiveness of valid inequalities in integer programming, classical and biomimetic algorithms for robots and webhosting, the behavior of animal groups, and political polarization.