François Soumis
Member, GERAD

Professor, Department of Mathematics and Industrial Engineering, Polytechnique Montréal
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Publications
The primal Benders decomposition
Benders decomposition has been applied significantly to tackle large-scale optimization problems with complicating variables, which, when temporarily fixed, ...
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Operations research specialists at the OCP Group, the Mohammed VI Polytechnic University, and the Polytechnique Montreal operationalized a system optimizing ...
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Research.com, a leading academic platform for researchers, released in December 2022 the 2nd edition of its ranking of the top 1000 scientists in several fields.
The final will take place during the 23rd IFORS Triennial Conference from July 10-14, 2023 in Santiago, Chile. The team of professors Issmail El Hallaoui and François Soumis is one of the six finalists with their project "OCP Optimizes its Supply Chain for Africa". The country represented is Morocco and their Moroccan partners are the OCP Group and the UM6P university. This project is part of the Ph.D. research topic of El Mehdi Er Raqabi.
We should also underline the very important role of Ahmed Beljadid in this project.
Events
Frédéric Quesnel – Associate Professor, Department of Analytics, Operations and Information Technology, Université du Québec à Montréal
Patrick Munroe – Polytechnique Montréal
Frédéric Quesnel – Department of Mathematical and Industrial Engineering, Polytechnique Montréal
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Prizes and awards
Canada Research Chair in Large Transportation Network Optimization (LTNO)
Finalist for the IFORS Prize for OR in Development
Project presented: "OCP optimizes its supply chain for Africa"2023 Award for Excellence in Research and Innovation
Professor among the top scientists in the fields of mathematics and engineering and technology
Prix Lionel-Boulet 2014
Les Prix du QuébecIBM Faculty Award
Finalist of the Edelman Prize
Joseph-Armand Bombardier Award (with J. Desrosiers)
Prix transfert technologique (with J. Desrosiers)
Synergy Awards for Innovation (with J. Desrosiers)
Annual Award for Best Applied Research
(work done for Air Canada with Gamache and Desrosiers)Finalist for the Prix transfert technologique (with J. Desrosiers)
Annual Award for Best Applied Research
(work done for Air France with Gamache and Desrosiers)Award for the best research presented at the EURO conference in Vienna
(with J. Desrosiers)Supervision
