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Vice President, Center for Business Optimization, IBM Global Services, IBM Business Consulting Services
Prior to joining BCS, Bill was the director of Exploratory Server Systems for IBM Research and the director of the IBM Deep Computing Institute.
In his role with Exploratory Server Systems, Bill led the research team that provides broad-based research support to IBM’s range of servers. He also drove IBM Research initiatives in ultra large-scale computing projects and applications in Life Sciences, including the Blue Gene Project. For the Deep Computing Institute, he coordinated activities both within IBM and with industry, academic and government research partners around the world. The institute brings together experts in the mathematical sciences, computer science, and other disciplines to address challenging business and scientific problems, including Grand Challenge problems.
Bill was the IBM Partnership Executive for the University of Minnesota. He has served on the Industrial Advisory Committee for the Institute for Mathematics and its Applications at the University of Minnesota as well as on the board of governors, which he chaired in 1998. Bill is a member of the advisory council for the Division of Mathematical and Physical Sciences for the National Science Foundation, as well as on the board of directors of iCORE, the external advisory board of DIMACS, the advisory council of the Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences, RUTCOR Operations Research International Advisory Board (Rutgers University), and a member of the Scientific Advisory Panel of The Fields Institute for Research in Mathematical Sciences. In addition, he serves on the editorial boards of a number of journals.
Bill’s personal research interests are in operations research, combinatorial optimization and applications of optimization. In addition to writing a number of scientific papers and books, he has consulted for several companies including: Mobil Oil on helicopter routing; Marks and Spencer on depot management; Statistics Canada on survey validation; and CP Rail on train scheduling.
