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Héctor Cancela (Universidad de la República, Montevideo, Uruguay).
Full Professor at the Engineering School of the Universidad de la Republica;
Head of the Operations Research Department between 1998 and 2004, Head of the
Computer Science Institute between 2006 and 2010, Dean of the Engineering School of the Universidad de la Republica between 2010 and 2015.
Researcher at the National Program for the Development of Basic Sciences (PEDECIBA),
Uruguay.
Hector Cancela holds a PhD. degree in Computer Science from the University
of Rennes 1, IRISA, INRIA Rennes, France (1996), and a Computer Systems Engineer degree
from the Universidad de la República, Uruguay (1990).
His research interests are in Operations Research techniques (specially
simulation and optimization) applied to communications and logistics. He has
published more than 90 papers in international journals and proceedings of
refereed conferences, and has acted as thesis advisor of MSc. and PhD. students.
He's obtained the Young Researchers Award "Roberto Caldeyro Barcia"
presented by the PEDECIBA (1999, in Computer Science) and the "Ira M. Kay
Memorial" award to the best work presented at the 29 Annual Simulation Symposium
(New Orleans, 1996).
He participated as academic delegate at the National Committee for the
Information Society hosted by the Presidency of the Republic of Uruguay (Comite
Nacional de la Sociedad de la Informacion, Uruguay-en-Red).
He has also been a national delegate at the Committee on Acreditation Standards
for Engineering Studies at the
MERCOSUR.
He is member of SMAI (Societe de Mathematiques Appliquees et Industrielles - Francia), SIAM (Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics- USA), and AMS (American Mathematical Society, USA), and AUDIIO (Asociación Uruguaya de Informática e Investigación Operativa). He is currently member of IFIP System Modeling and Optimization technical committee (TC7) and he has been President of ALIO, the Latin American Operations Research Association, during 2006-2010.
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