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Gilbert Laporte

Gilbert Laporte CM is a full professor of operations research at HEC Montréal. He holds the Canada Research Chair in Distribution Management. Laporte has been awarded the Order of Canada and the Innis-Gérin Medal.

Gilbert Laporte
Spouse
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(m. 1974)​
Children1
Academic background
EducationBSc., McGill University
M.A., Operations Research, 1972, University of Lancaster
PhD., London School of Economics
Thesis (1975)
Academic work
InstitutionsUniversité de Montréal
HEC Montréal

Education

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Laporte earned a bachelor's in mathematics from McGill University and a master's degree from Lancaster University. He moved to London with his wife to pursue a PhD from the London School of Economics in operational research.[1][2]

Career

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Upon earning his PhD, Laporte joined the Computer Science Department at the Université de Montréal as a research assistant. In 1976, he was appointed assistant professor at HEC Montréal.[3] Four years later he was promoted to associate professor and eventually to full professor in 1986.[4] In the 1990s, he was the recipient of the 1994 Award of Merit from the Canadian Operational Research Society and the 1999 Jacques-Rousseau Prize for Interdisciplinarity from the Association canadienne-française pour l'avancement des sciences (Acfas).[5] In 2001, he was named in the inaugural Canada Research Chair in Distribution Management[6] and was awarded the Grand Prize for Teaching Excellence by HEC Montréal.[5] As he continued in academia, Laporte continued to be recognized for his contributions in the field of operations research and quantitative methods. In 2004, Laporte received the Glover-Klingman Award[7] and TSL Best Paper Award from the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences.[8] The next year, Laporte was named a Fellow of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences.[9]

In 2007, Laporte was the recipient of the Innis-Gérin Medal from the Royal Society of Canada for his sustained contribution to the literature of the social sciences.[10] The 2008–09 academic year was proven to be successful for Laporte. In April, Laporte was the recipient of the Gérard-Parizeau Award.[3] In June, Laporte was named an honorary member of the Omega Rho Honor Society from the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences.[11]

In 2012, Laporte was named the third most influential researcher in the field of management in Canada by the Hirsch-Index Benchmarking of Academic Research. He tied with Danny Miller for the Pierre Laurin Award.[4] At the conclusion of the 2013–14 Academic term, Laporte received the international honour of the Lifetime Achievement in Location Analysis from the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences.[12] Laporte took sabbatical leave from HEC from June 1 to December 31, 2015, and again from June 1, 2016, to December 31, 2016.[13] Prior to announcing his sabbatical, Laporte renewed his Canada Research Chair.[6] Upon his return, Laporte's academic achievements were recognized by the Eindhoven University of Technology with an honorary doctorate on April 22, 2016.[14]

By 2017, Laporte was credited with being the "world's most productive and influential author in operations research and management science" by Omega – The International Journal of Management Science.[15] During that academic year, he was the recipient of the 2017 Prix d'excellence FRQNT[16] and the Urgel-Archambault award in physics, mathematics, computer science and engineering. Laporte became the first HEC Montréal professor to ever receive this distinction.[5] The following year, he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Liège[17] and received the 2018 Marie-Victorin award from the Quebec government.[18] In December 2018, Laporte was honoured with the Order of Canada.[19]

In 2019, Laporte received many accolades for his research. Such as, being elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering.[20] His research continued to advance and he was eventually awarded the Best Paper Award from the Production & Operations Management Society.[21] By April, Laporte had been recognized as one of the world's most productive and influential authors in the fields of computer science and electronics based on the Google Scholar index.[22] In June 2019, Laporte became only the third researcher to become a fellow of the Vehicle Routing and Logistics Optimization.[23] He also serves as an associate editor for the Journal of the Operational Research Society.[24]

In 2021, he was awarded the honorary degree of Doctor Honoris Causa at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU).[25] He was also awarded the 2021 Killam Prize in Engineering [26]

Personal life

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Laporte married full professor Ann Langley on August 3, 1974. Their daughter is an assistant professor at École de Technologie Supérieure.[2]

Selected publications

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  • The vehicle routing problem: An overview of exact and approximate algorithms
  • A tabu search heuristic for the vehicle routing problem
  • A unified tabu search heuristic for vehicle routing problems with time windows
  • Classical and modern heuristics for the vehicle routing problem

References

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  1. ^ "GILBERT LAPORTE". ivado.ca. Retrieved October 3, 2019.
  2. ^ a b "Longest Married Alumni Couple?". lancaster.ac.uk. Retrieved October 2, 2019.
  3. ^ a b "GILBERT LAPORTE, EMINENT TRANSPORTATION RESEARCHER, WINS THE 2009 GÉRARD-PARIZEAU AWARD". hec.ca. April 16, 2009. Retrieved October 3, 2019.
  4. ^ a b "RESEARCH AND TEACHING AWARDS: RICHARD DÉRY, GILBERT LAPORTE AND DANNY MILLER HONOURED". hec.ca. November 28, 2012. Retrieved October 3, 2019.
  5. ^ a b c "GILBERT LAPORTE RECEIVES THE URGEL-ARCHAMBAULT AWARD". hec.ca. October 19, 2016. Retrieved October 3, 2019.
  6. ^ a b "THE CANADA RESEARCH CHAIR IN DISTRIBUTION MANAGEMENT IS RENEWED". hec.ca. April 9, 2015. Retrieved October 3, 2019.
  7. ^ "2004 GLOVER-KLINGMAN AWARD GOES TO GILBERT LAPORTE". August 15, 2005.
  8. ^ "GILBERT LAPORTE, PRIZE WINNER OF THE TSL BEST PAPER AWARD". gerad.ca. November 26, 2004. Retrieved October 3, 2019.
  9. ^ "GILBERT LAPORTE ELECTED A FELLOW OF THE INSTITUTE FOR OPERATIONS RESEARCH AND THE MANAGEMENT SCIENCES". gerad.ca. November 18, 2005. Retrieved October 3, 2019.
  10. ^ "DISTINCTIONS" (PDF). mag.hec.ca. 2008. p. 7. Retrieved October 3, 2019. The Royal Society of Canada presented the 2007 Innis-Gérin Medal to internationally renowned researcher Gilbert Laporte
  11. ^ "GILBERT LAPORTE, HONORARY MEMBER OF THE OMEGA RHO HONOR SOCIETY". hec.ca. June 18, 2009. Retrieved October 3, 2019.
  12. ^ "GILBERT LAPORTE HONOURED BY TWO INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS". hec.ca. July 10, 2014. Retrieved October 3, 2019.
  13. ^ "2015-2016 SABBATICAL LEAVES". gerad.ca. Retrieved October 3, 2019.
  14. ^ "GILBERT LAPORTE EARNS MORE INTERNATIONAL HONOURS!". hec.ca. April 22, 2016. Retrieved October 3, 2019.
  15. ^ "GILBERT LAPORTE NAMED THE WORLD'S MOST INFLUENTIAL AUTHOR IN OPERATIONS RESEARCH/MANAGEMENT SCIENCE". hec.ca. July 19, 2017. Retrieved October 3, 2019.
  16. ^ "Victoria Kaspi and Gilbert Laporte receive the 2017 Prix d'excellence FRQNT". .frqnt.gouv.qc.ca. April 10, 2017. Retrieved October 3, 2019.
  17. ^ "GILBERT LAPORTE HONOURED BY THE UNIVERSITÉ DE LIÈGE". hec.ca. March 26, 2018. Retrieved October 3, 2019.
  18. ^ "GILBERT LAPORTE RECEIVES A PRIX DU QUÉBEC". hec.ca. November 22, 2018. Retrieved October 3, 2019.
  19. ^ "GILBERT LAPORTE APPOINTED TO THE ORDER OF CANADA". hec.ca. January 7, 2019. Retrieved October 3, 2019.
  20. ^ "GILBERT LAPORTE ELECTED TO THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF ENGINEERING". hec.ca. February 27, 2019. Retrieved October 3, 2019.
  21. ^ "MARIE-EVE RANCOURT AND GILBERT LAPORTE WIN THE BEST PAPER AWARD". hec.ca. May 31, 2019. Retrieved October 3, 2019.
  22. ^ "GILBERT LAPORTE ONE OF THE WORLD'S TOP 50 RESEARCHERS IN COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ELECTRONICS". gerad.ca. April 15, 2019. Retrieved October 3, 2019.
  23. ^ "A NEW INTERNATIONAL DISTINCTION FOR GILBERT LAPORTE". hec.ca. June 27, 2019. Retrieved October 3, 2019.
  24. ^ "Editorial Board Journal of the Operational Research Society". palgrave.com. October 15, 2017. Retrieved October 3, 2019.
  25. ^ "Honorary Doctors - NTNU". www.ntnu.edu. Retrieved 2021-09-29.
  26. ^ "2021 Killam Prize Laureates".[permanent dead link]
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