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 Jacques Desrosiers received his Ph.D. degree in
Mathematics at the University of Montréal in 1979. Since 1989 he is Full Professor in the
Department of Quantitative Methods for Business Administration at
HEC Montréal. He is also a member of the GERAD Operations Research Center. His main research interests include large scale optimization
for vehicle routing and crew scheduling in air, rail and urban
transportation. Finally, he is partner in Ad Opt Technologies which commercializes the Altitude
software system for the management of air transport operations.
Ad Opt is a publicly traded Canadian company, listed on
the Toronto Stock Exchange. It employs approximately 150 people with more
than 90 experts in scheduling, operations research and computer engineering,
while maintaining strong ties with world-renowned university research centers
dedicated to optimization research. The Altitude product line is powered by GENCOL,
a state of the art column generation technology - the result of over 20 years
of collaborative research among Montréal’s universities in the field of
advanced mathematics and operations research. Thousands of crewmembers all
over the world are scheduled with Altitude's software solutions. Customers
include: Air Canada, America West, Air Transat, Avolar, FedEx, FlexJet (Bombardier),
Mesaba, United, UPS, South Africa, and Swissair.
Jacques.Desrosiers@hec.ca CURRICULUM_VITAE
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