Associate Professor
University of Mississippi (UM)
School of Business Administration

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH

César Rego is Associate Professor of Management Information Systems and Operations Management at the School of Business of the University of Mississippi. He received a degree in Computer Science and Applied Mathematics from the Portucalense University in Portugal. a MSc in Operations Research and Systems Engineering from the School of Technology (IST) of the University of Lisbon, and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Versailles and INRIA - France.

He has held faculty posts in the Portucalense University and the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon, and has served as an invited professor in the IST. He has conducted research in the Operations Research Center (CIO) the Centre for Urban and Regional Systems (CESUR) of the University of Lisbon, and the Hearin Center for Enterprise Science (HCES) of the University of Mississippi.

Dr. Rego received an award from the Portuguese Operational Research Society (APDIO) for his MSc thesis, and after graduating received the IFORS-Lisbon award for the best international paper published by members of APDIO, and the “Researcher/Scholar of the Year” award from the School of Business at the University of Mississippi. His biographical listing appears in “Who’s Who in America.”

Professor Rego's publications have appeared in books on metaheuristics and in leading journals on optimization such as the European Journal of Operational Research (EJOR), the Journal of the Operational Research Society (JORS), Parallel Computing, Journal of Applied Mathematics and Decision Sciences, Computers & OR, Annals of Operations Research, OR Spectrum, IEEE Intelligent Systems, and Management Science. In the practical realm, he has designed and implemented computer software for solving real-world problems for several major companies.

His main research interest is the creation and empirical validation of optimization algorithms for solving complex and practical problems with applications in logistics, distribution, transportation, manpower planning, industry, and biochemistry. During the last four years he has been serving as principal investigator and co-investigator in six major ONR research grants with total funding exceeding 2 million dollars.

Dr. Rego is Associate Editor of the journal Operational Research. An International Journal, the International Journal of Computational Intelligence Research, the Algorithmic Operations Research journal, the Journal of Heuristics, and editor of the book Metaheuristic Optimization via Memory and Evolution: Tabu Search and Scatter Search, Kluwer Academic Publishers. He has served on several scientific committees such as a review panel for the National Science Foundation (NSF), the National Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), and examiner of several doctoral dissertations in Europe, USA and Canada.

Dr. Rego has organized and chaired numerous sessions and clusters in international conferences and has served as invited speaker in a number of tutorials and plenary sessions. He is the chair of the EU/ME Special Interest Group on Tabu Search and Scatter Search and a board member in the European Chapter on Metaheuristics of EURO (Association of European Operational Research Societies). He is also the creator and editor of the Tabu Search web site.

He is a member of APDIO and INFORMS, a Research Associate of the Center for Research on Transportation (CRT) - Montreal, Canada, and a Senior Research Consultant for OptTek Systems, Inc.