2026 Pascal Van Hentenryck: Computer Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Computer Science	72	1659	1609	853	823	496	23474

Research.com Recognitions

2016 - Fellow of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS)
2009 - Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) For significant contributions to constraint satisfaction and reasoning under uncertainty, the development of the widely used CHIP, Numerica, OPL, and Comet systems, and his pioneering role in the inception of constraint programming and its integration in operations research.

Overview

Pascal Van Hentenryck is affiliated with the Georgia Institute of Technology in the United States. Their research spans a broad range of topics primarily within engineering, with significant contributions to electrical and electronic engineering, transportation, artificial intelligence, automotive engineering, and industrial and manufacturing engineering.

The scientist's work focuses on several key topics related to optimization and mobility:

Transportation Planning and Optimization
Transportation and Mobility Innovations
Optimal Power Flow Distribution
Electric Power System Optimization
Energy Load and Power Forecasting
Privacy-Preserving Technologies in Data
Power System Optimization and Stability

Pascal Van Hentenryck has published extensively in various venues known for research in artificial intelligence, power systems, and transportation studies. The most frequent publication venues include:

arXiv (Cornell University)
Electric Power Systems Research
Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence
IEEE Transactions on Power Systems
INFORMS journal on computing

Recent papers authored or co-authored by the scientist cover topics from travel behavior analysis to power flow optimization. Some examples of these publications are:

Prediction and behavioral analysis of travel mode choice: A comparison of machine learning and logit models, 2020, Travel Behaviour and Society
Combining Deep Learning and Optimization for Preventive Security-Constrained DC Optimal Power Flow, 2021, IEEE Transactions on Power Systems
Mobility-on-demand versus fixed-route transit systems: An evaluation of traveler preferences in low-income communities, 2021, Transportation Research Part A Policy and Practice
Last-Mile Restoration for Multiple Interdependent Infrastructures, 2021, Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence
High-Fidelity Machine Learning Approximations of Large-Scale Optimal Power Flow, 2020, arXiv (Cornell University)

The scientist has collaborated with a number of frequent co-authors, indicating ongoing research partnerships with colleagues such as:

Mathieu Tanneau
Ferdinando Fioretto
Wenbo Chen
Kevin Dalmeijer
Terrence W. K. Mak

Pascal Van Hentenryck's achievements include being named a Fellow of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) in 2016. Earlier, in 2009, they were recognized as a Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) for contributions related to constraint satisfaction, reasoning under uncertainty, and the development of influential constraint programming systems.

Best Publications

Constraint satisfaction in logic programming

Pascal Van Hentenryck

2080
Citations
The Constraint Logic Programming Language CHIP.

Mehmet Dincbas;Pascal Van Hentenryck;Helmut Simonis;Abderrahmane Aggoun

942
Citations
The OPL optimization programming language

Pascal Van Hentenryck

802
Citations
Rapid assessment of disaster damage using social media activity.

Yury Kryvasheyeu;Yury Kryvasheyeu;Haohui Chen;Haohui Chen;Nick Obradovich;Nick Obradovich;Esteban Moro

691
Citations
A generic arc-consistency algorithm and its specializations

Pascal Van Hentenryck;Yves Deville;Choh-Man Teng

647
Citations
Scenario-Based Planning for Partially Dynamic Vehicle Routing with Stochastic Customers

Russell W. Bent;Pascal Van Hentenryck

643
Citations
Constraint-based local search

Pascal Van Hentenryck;Laurent Michel

601
Citations
A Two-Stage Hybrid Local Search for the Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Windows

Russell Bent;Pascal Van Hentenryck

527
Citations
Numerica: A Modeling Language for Global Optimization

Pascal Van Hentenryck

449
Citations
Design, implementation, and evaluation of the constraint language cc (FD)

Pascal Van Hentenryck;Vijay A. Saraswat;Yves Deville

436
Citations
A two-stage hybrid algorithm for pickup and delivery vehicle routing problems with time windows

Russell Bent;Pascal Van Hentenryck

411
Citations
Solving Polynomial Systems Using a Branch and Prune Approach

Pascal Van Hentenryck;David McAllester;Deepak Kapur

408
Citations
Integration of AI and OR Techniques in Constraint Programming for Combinatorial Optimization Problems

Willem-Jan van Hoeve;John N. Hooker

400
Citations
Constraint satisfaction using constraint logic programming

Pascal van Hentenryck;Helmut Simonis;Mehmet Dincbas

394
Citations
The QC relaxation: A theoretical and computational study on optimal power flow

Carleton Coffrin;Hassan Hijazi;Pascal Van Hentenryck

381
Citations
Prediction and behavioral analysis of travel mode choice: A comparison of machine learning and logit models

Xilei Zhao;Xiang Yan;Alan Yu;Pascal Van Hentenryck

375
Citations
A Linear-Programming Approximation of AC Power Flows

Carleton Coffrin;Pascal Van Hentenryck

369
Citations
Solving the car-sequencing problem in constraint logic programming

Mehmet Dincbas;Helmut Simonis;Pascal Van Hentenryck

283
Citations
Solving large combinatorial problems in logic programming

Mehmet Dincbas;Helmut Simonis;Pascal Van Hentenryck

274
Citations
Online Stochastic Combinatorial Optimization

Pascal Van Hentenryck;Russell Bent

255
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Russell Bent Los Alamos National Laboratory

Manuel Cebrian Carlos III University of Madrid

Scott Backhaus Los Alamos National Laboratory

Vijay Saraswat Goldman Sachs Research

Antonio Fernández University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria

Michela Milano University of Bologna

Lexing Xie Australian National University

Christian Bessiere University of Montpellier

Scott Sanner University of Toronto

Michael Chertkov University of Arizona

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