Biography

Tallys Yunes is a tenured associate professor of management science in the School of Business Administration at the University of Miami. He holds a PhD in operations research from Carnegie Mellon University, as well as BS and MS degrees in computer engineering and computer science from the University of Campinas (UNICAMP) in Brazil.

He has over twenty refereed publications in the areas of constraint programming, integer programming, heuristics, and their integration into hybrid algorithms, with a focus on modeling, computation, and application to practical problems, such as scheduling (sports, personnel, machines), product line simplification, transportation, and information layout. His practical experience includes participating in consulting projects with Burger King’s supply chain management and distribution co-op, Deere & Co., Caterpillar Inc., and Major League Baseball.

Yunes is an associate editor for the INFORMS Journal on Computing and International Transactions in Operational Research. He has served on the program committees of the two main conferences on constraint programming and its hybrids, namely CP-AI-OR and CP, and was a member of the INFORMS Public Information Committee from 2011 to 2013. He helped organize the INFORMS Optimization Society conference in 2012 and the Mixed-Integer Programming (MIP) Workshop in 2016. His primary teaching responsibility at the School is the core MBA course on optimization, for which he has been selected by the students to receive the Excellence in Teaching Award eleven times. In 2015, he received the Faculty Research Mentor of the Year Award for his work with undergraduate business students. In 2017, the faculty of the school awarded him an Excellence in Teaching Award in recognition of outstanding teaching contributions that go beyond the classroom.

Research Interests

Scheduling (sports, personnel, machines); product line simplification; transportation; political districting; call center operations; and information layout

Featured Publications

• L. de Oliveira, C. C. de Souza, and T. Yunes, Lower Bounds for Large Traveling Umpire Instances: New Valid Inequalities and a Branch-and-Cut Algorithm, Computers & Operations Research 72, 147– 159, 2016.
  
  A. A. Cire, J. N. Hooker, and T. Yunes, Modeling with Metaconstraints and Semantic Typing of Variables, INFORMS Journal on Computing 28(1), 1–13, 2016.
  
  R. Cano, C. C. de Souza, P. J. de Rezende, and T. Yunes, Arc-Based Integer Programming Formula- tions for Three Variants of Proportional Symbol Maps, Discrete Optimization 18, 87–110, 2015.
  
  L. de Oliveira, C. C. de Souza, and T. Yunes, On the Complexity of the Traveling Umpire Problem, Theoretical Computer Science 562, 101–111, 2015.
  
  G. Kunigami, P. J. de Rezende, C. C. de Souza, and T. Yunes, Optimizing the Layout of Proportional Symbol Maps: Polyhedra and Computation, INFORMS Journal on Computing 26(2), 199–207, 2014.
  
  L. de Oliveira, C. C. de Souza, and T. Yunes, Improved Bounds for the Traveling Umpire Problem: A Stronger Formulation and a Relax-and-Fix Heuristic, European Journal of Operational Research 236(2), 592–600, 2014.
  
  D. Bergman, A. A. Cire, W.-J. van Hoeve, and T. Yunes, BDD-Based Heuristics for Binary Optimiza- tion, Journal of Heuristics 20(2), 211–234, 2014.
  
  M. A. Trick, H. Yildiz, and T. Yunes, Scheduling Major League Baseball Umpires and the Traveling Umpire Problem, Interfaces 42(3), 232–244, 2012.
  
  G. Kunigami, P. J. de Rezende, C. C. de Souza, and T. Yunes, Generating Optimal Drawings of Physically Realizable Symbol Maps with Integer Programming, The Visual Computer 28(10), 1015– 1026, 2012.
  
  T. Yunes, I. D. Aron and J. N. Hooker, An Integrated Solver for Optimization Problems, Operations Research 58(2), 342–356, 2010.
  
  T. H. Yunes, D. Napolitano, A. Scheller-Wolf and S. Tayur, Building Efficient Product Portfolios at John Deere and Company, Operations Research 55(4), 615–629, 2007.
  
  T. H. Yunes, A. V. Moura and C. C. de Souza, Hybrid Column Generation Approaches for Urban Transit Crew Management Problems, Transportation Science 39(2), 273–288, 2005.
  
  T. Yunes, Software Tools Supporting Integration, book chapter in Hybrid Optimization — The Ten Years of CPAIOR, M. Milano and P. Van Hentenryck (eds.), 393–424, Springer, 2011. ISBN: 978-1- 4419-1643-3.
  
  I. D. Aron, J. N. Hooker and T. H. Yunes, SIMPL: A System for Integrating Optimization Techniques, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3011, 21–36, 2004 (CPAIOR).
  
  T. H. Yunes, On The Sum Constraint: Relaxation and Applications, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2470, 80–92, 2002 (CP).

Teaching and Professional Experience

• Associate Professor, Management Science, University of Miami School of Business Administration, 2012 - Present
• Assistant Professor, Management Science, University of Miami School of Business Administration, 2006 - 2012
• Instructor, Management Science, University of Miami School of Business Administration, 2005 - 2006

Specialties

• Prescriptive analytics
• Operations research
• Combinatorial optimization

Degrees

• Ph.D., Operations Research, Carnegie Mellon University, 2006
• M.S., Operations Research, Carnegie Mellon University, 2002
• M.S., Computer Science, University of Campinas (UNICAMP), 2000
• B.S., Computer Engineering, University of Campinas (UNICAMP), 1997

Honors and Awards

• Excellence in Teaching Award, University of Miami School of Business Administration, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012
• Faculty Research Mentor of the Year Award, University of Miami School of Business Administration, 2015
• Air Force Office of Scientific Research grant, 2011 - 2014
• Honorable mention, INFORMS Railway Applications Section (RAS) Problem Solving Competition, 2010
• Gerald L. Thompson Doctoral Dissertation Award in Management Science, Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University, 2006
• William L. Mellon Fellowship, Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon, 2000 - 2003
• First prize, VIII UNESCO Latin American Master’s thesis contest, Mérida, Venezuela, 2001

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