Andre Cire

Biography:
Andre Augusto Cire is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Management at University of Toronto Scarborough, and cross-appointed to the Operations Management area at the Rotman School of Management.
His main research interests include discrete optimization, mathematical programming, constraint programming, and practical applications of scheduling and routing. Andre's recent work focuses on hybrid methods that exploit the interface between operations management and computer science for the purpose of developing computationally efficient methods for hard and large-scale optimization problems.
Research Interests:
Awards and Grants:
2015 | NSERC Discovery Grant; Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada |
2015 | Gerald L. Thompson Doctoral Dissertation Award in Management Science; Carnegie Mellon University |
2014 | UTSC Research Competitiveness Fund; University of Toronto Scarborough |
2014 | 2014 INFORMS Computing Society Student Paper Award; INFORMS Computing Society |
2011 | Egon Balas Award; Carnegie Mellon University |
2008 | Best Paper Award, Applications Track; The 14th International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming |
2009 | Latin American Master's Thesis Contest in Informatics, Second Place; Latin American Center for Informatics Studies |
Publications:
Selected Publications - Papers
- Discrete Optimization with Decision Diagrams; D. Bergman, A. A. Cire, W.-J. van Hoeve, and J. N. Hooker; INFORMS Journal on Computing, forthcoming; 2015
- Lagrangian Bounds from Decision Diagrams; D. Bergman, A. A. Cire, and W.-J. van Hoeve; Constraints; Issue: 20; 2015; Pages: 346-361
- Modeling with Metaconstraints and Semantic Typing of Variables; A. A. Cire, J. N. Hooker, and T. Yunes; INFORMS Journal on Computing, forthcoming; 2015
- MDD Propagation for Sequence Constraints; D. Bergman, A. A. Cire, and W.-J. van Hoeve; Journal of Artificial Intelligence; Issue: 50; 2014; Pages: 697-722
- BDD-Based Heuristics for Binary Optimization; D. Bergman, A. A. Cire, W.-J. van Hoeve, and T. Yunes; Journal of Heuristics; Issue: 20(2); 2014; Pages: 211-234
- Optimization Bounds from Binary Decision Diagrams; D. Bergman, A. A. Cire, W.-J. van Hoeve, and J. N. Hooker; INFORMS Journal on Computing; Issue: 26(2); 2014; Pages: 253-258
- Multivalued Decision Diagrams for Sequencing Problems; A. A. Cire and W.-J. van Hoeve; Operations Research; Issue: 61(6); 2013; Pages: 1411-1428
- Planning the Operation of a Large Real-World Oil Pipeline; T. Lopes, A. Moura, C. de Souza, and A. A. Cire; Computers & Chemical Engineering; Issue: 46; 2012; Pages: 17-28
- A Hybrid Model for a Multiproduct Pipeline Planning and Scheduling Problem; T. Lopes, A. A. Cire, C. de Souza, and A. Moura; Constraints; Issue: 15(2); 2010; Pages: 151-189
Education:
PhD, Operations Research, Carnegie Mellon University, 2014
MSc, Operations Research, Carnegie Mellon University, 2010
MSc, Computer Science, University of Campinas, 2009