François Soumis

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It is with great sadness we announce that François Soumis passed away. Full professor in the Department of Mathematics and Industrial Engineering at Polytechnique Montréal, he was a very active member of GERAD since its inception, was its Director from 1992 to 1996, and greatly contributed to its worldwide renown.
François was generous, hard-working and passionate about research. He lived this passion to the very end. He had a very positive impact on the GERAD and the Montreal Operations Research community. We will miss him greatly!
The funeral that will take place on February 28 and March 1st, 2025. You will find the details here.
At the 33rd EURO Conference in Copenhague, Danmark, the team of professors Issmail El Hallaoui and François Soumis won the prestigious EURO Excellence in Practice Award (EEPA) for their project "OCP Optimizes Its Supply Chain For Africa and The World". It is the fruit of a collaboration between Polytechnique Montréal/GERAD, OCP Group and 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 and Oussama Siwane in this project.
Research.com, a leading academic platform for researchers, released in November 2023 the 3rd edition of its ranking of the top 1000 scientists in several fields.
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Canada Research Chair in Large Transportation Network Optimization (LTNO)
EURO Excellence in Practice Award (EEPA)
project "OCP Optimizes Its Supply Chain For Africa and The World"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
