Alexander Shapiro is an A. Russell Chandler III Chair and Professor in H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at
Georgia Tech
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. He was
editor-in-chief
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of the journal ''
Mathematical Programming, Series A
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'' and was an area editor of the journal ''
Operations Research
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''. Shapiro graduated with M.Sc. degree in
mathematics from
Moscow State University
M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU; russian: Московский государственный университет имени М. В. Ломоносова) is a public research university in Moscow, Russia and the most prestigious ...
in 1971 and ten years later got his Ph.D. in applied mathematics and statistics from
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
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.
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20th-century births
Living people
Russian mathematicians
Moscow State University alumni
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev alumni
Georgia Tech faculty
Year of birth missing (living people)
Place of birth missing (living people)
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