2026 Michel Gendreau: Mathematics Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Computer Science	109	238	231	8	8	501	57014
Mathematics	100	47	40	2	2	405	49301

Research.com Recognitions

2026 - Research.com Computer Science in Canada Leader Award
2026 - Research.com Mathematics in Canada Leader Award
2025 - Research.com Computer Science in Canada Leader Award
2025 - Research.com Mathematics in Canada Leader Award
2023 - Research.com Computer Science in Canada Leader Award
2023 - Research.com Mathematics in Canada Leader Award
2022 - Research.com Computer Science in Canada Leader Award
2010 - Fellow of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS)

Overview

Michel Gendreau is affiliated with Polytechnique Montréal in Canada and has contributed extensively to the field of engineering, with a focus on industrial and manufacturing engineering. Their body of work spans several subfields including automotive engineering, electrical and electronic engineering, transportation, and building and construction.

Their research covers a range of topics related to optimization and transportation, including:

Transportation and Mobility Innovations
Vehicle Routing Optimization Methods
Advanced Manufacturing and Logistics Optimization
Transportation Planning and Optimization
Optimization and Packing Problems
Scheduling and Optimization Algorithms
Urban and Freight Transport Logistics

Michel Gendreau has contributed to numerous publication venues, with frequent appearances in:

European Journal of Operational Research
arXiv (Cornell University)
Transportation Science
Transportation Research Part C Emerging Technologies
Computers & Operations Research

Notable recent papers include:

Tabu search for the time-dependent vehicle routing problem with time windows on a road network (2020, European Journal of Operational Research)
The Benders Dual Decomposition Method (2020, Operations Research)
A metaheuristic based on tabu search for solving a technician routing and scheduling problem (2020, Computers & Operations Research)
Crowdshipping: An open VRP variant with stochastic destinations (2022, Transportation Research Part C Emerging Technologies)
A Unifying Framework for Fairness-Aware Influence Maximization (2020, Companion Proceedings of the Web Conference 2020)

Frequent collaborators in their research include:

Jean-Yves Potvin
Teodor Gabriel Crainic
Mustapha Nourelfath
Walter Rei
Miguel F. Anjos

Michel Gendreau's work has been recognized by the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), where they were awarded the title of Fellow in 2010.

Best Publications

A tabu search heuristic for the vehicle routing problem

Michel Gendreau;Alain Hertz;Gilbert Laporte

1969
Citations
Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Windows, Part I: Route Construction and Local Search Algorithms

Olli Bräysy;Michel Gendreau

1662
Citations
A review of dynamic vehicle routing problems

Victor Pillac;Victor Pillac;Michel Gendreau;Christelle Guéret;Andrés L. Medaglia

1562
Citations
Hyper-heuristics: a survey of the state of the art

Edmund K. Burke;Michel Gendreau;Matthew R. Hyde;Graham Kendall

1489
Citations
A Tabu Search Heuristic for the Vehicle Routing Problem with Soft Time Windows

Éric D. Taillard;Philippe Badeau;Michel Gendreau;François Guertin

1432
Citations
A tabu search heuristic for periodic and multi-depot vehicle routing problems

Jean-François Cordeau;Michel Gendreau;Gilbert Laporte

1252
Citations
Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Windows, Part II: Metaheuristics

Olli Bräysy;Michel Gendreau

1216
Citations
Classical and modern heuristics for the vehicle routing problem

Gilbert Laporte;Michel Gendreau;Jean-Yves Potvin;Frédéric Semet

1170
Citations
Handbook of Metaheuristics

Michel Gendreau;Jean-Yves Potvin

1158
Citations
A guide to vehicle routing heuristics

Jean-François Cordeau;Michel Gendreau;Gilbert Laporte;Jean-Yves Potvin

1003
Citations
STOCHASTIC VEHICLE ROUTING.

Michel Gendreau;Gilbert Laporte;Gilbert Laporte;René Séguin;René Séguin

958
Citations
An exact algorithm for the elementary shortest path problem with resource constraints: Application to some vehicle routing problems

Dominique Feillet;Pierre Dejax;Michel Gendreau;Cyrille Gueguen

925
Citations
Traveling Salesman Problems with Profits

Dominique Feillet;Pierre Dejax;Michel Gendreau

921
Citations
The Benders decomposition algorithm: A literature review

Ragheb Rahmaniani;Ragheb Rahmaniani;Teodor Gabriel Crainic;Teodor Gabriel Crainic;Michel Gendreau;Michel Gendreau;Walter Rei;Walter Rei

897
Citations
Vehicle dispatching with time-dependent travel times

Soumia Ichoua;Michel Gendreau;Jean-Yves Potvin

891
Citations
New insertion and postoptimization procedures for the traveling salesman problem

Michel Gendreau;Alain Hertz;Gilbert Laporte

865
Citations
A Hybrid Genetic Algorithm for Multidepot and Periodic Vehicle Routing Problems

Thibaut Vidal;Teodor Gabriel Crainic;Michel Gendreau;Nadia Lahrichi

845
Citations
Parallel Tabu Search for Real-Time Vehicle Routing and Dispatching

Michel Gendreau;Francois Guertin;Jean-Yves Potvin;Eric Taillard

694
Citations
A hybrid genetic algorithm with adaptive diversity management for a large class of vehicle routing problems with time-windows

Thibaut Vidal;Teodor Gabriel Crainic;Michel Gendreau;Christian Prins

656
Citations
A dynamic model and parallel tabu search heuristic for real-time ambulance relocation

Michel Gendreau;Gilbert Laporte;Gilbert Laporte;Frédéric Semet;Frédéric Semet

646
Citations
Metaheuristics in Combinatorial Optimization

Michel Gendreau;Jean-Yves Potvin

455
Citations
Combinatorial auctions

Jawad Abrache;Teodor Gabriel Crainic;Michel Gendreau;Monia Rekik

119
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Gilbert Laporte HEC Montréal

Jean-Yves Potvin University of Montreal

Louis-Martin Rousseau Polytechnique Montréal

Abdelhakim Hafid University of Montreal

Frédéric Semet University of Lille

Alain Hertz Polytechnique Montréal

Thibaut Vidal Polytechnique Montréal

Edmund K. Burke Bangor University

François Soumis Polytechnique Montréal

Graham Kendall MILA University

External Links

Personal website of Michel Gendreau Google Scholar page

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