About me
Ruth Misener is Professor of Computational Optimisation at Imperial College where she holds a BASF / Royal Academy of Engineering (RAEng) Research Chair in Data-Driven Optimisation. In 2017, Ruth received the MacFarlane Medal as overall winner of the RAEng Young Engineer Trust Engineer of the Year competition. Ruth also received the 2023 Roger Needham Award from the British Computing Society. Ruth's best paper awards are from the: Journal of Global Optimization (2013), International Conference on Autonomous Agents & Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS 2020, Best Innovative Demo), Conference on the Integration of Constraint Programming, Artificial Intelligence, & Operations Research (CPAIOR 2021), Optimization & Engineering (2021), and Computers & Chemical Engineering (2023). She has given named lectures at Princeton University (2023 Saville Lecture) and Georgia Institute of Technology (2018 Mellichamp Lecture). Ruth leads a team of research engineers in developing the Optimization & Machine Learning Toolkit (OMLT), which won the 2022 COIN-OR Cup as the best contribution to open-source operations research software development. Ruth is associate editor for INFORMS Journal on Computing and Operations Research. She is also a NeurIPS Area Chair.
