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Thomas L. Magnanti

Thomas L. Magnanti

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Mathematics

D-Index
43
Citations
24629
World Ranking
1638
National Ranking
703

Engineering and Technology

D-Index
44
Citations
41445
World Ranking
5659
National Ranking
1572

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2002 - Fellow of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS)
  • 2000 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 1991 - Member of the National Academy of Engineering For leadership in operations, research including fundamental contributions to optimal design of communication and transportation networks, and in education in manufacturing.

Overview

Thomas L. Magnanti is affiliated with MIT in the United States and has contributed to several fields within engineering, with significant focus on industrial and manufacturing engineering, management information systems, and automotive engineering. Their research spans topics related to scheduling and optimization algorithms, supply chain and inventory management, as well as electric vehicles and infrastructure.

Magnanti's recent publications include:

  • Scheduling with Testing of Heterogeneous Jobs, 2023, Management Science
  • Optimization: From Its Inception, 2021, Management Science
  • Decision-dependent Robust Charging Infrastructure Planning for Light-duty Truck Electrification at Industrial Sites: Scheduling and Abandonment, 2025, arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Decision-Dependent Robust Charging Infrastructure Planning for Light-Duty Truck Electrification at Industrial Sites: Scheduling and Abandonment, 2025, SSRN Electronic Journal

Frequent co-authors who have collaborated with Magnanti include:

  • Ruicheng Ao
  • Retsef Levi
  • Yaron Shaposhnik
  • Yifu Ding
  • Pablo Dueñas-Martínez

Magnanti has published predominantly in the journal Management Science and has also contributed to preprint and electronic journals such as arXiv (Cornell University) and SSRN Electronic Journal.

The main research topics covered by this scientist are:

  • Scheduling and Optimization Algorithms
  • Supply Chain and Inventory Management
  • Optimization and Search Problems
  • Optimization and Packing Problems
  • Electric Vehicles and Infrastructure
  • Advanced Battery Technologies Research
  • Electric and Hybrid Vehicle Technologies

Magnanti has received recognition through multiple awards including:

  • Fellow of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), 2002
  • Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2000
  • Member of the National Academy of Engineering, 1991, for leadership in operations research including fundamental contributions to optimal design of communication and transportation networks, and education in manufacturing

Best Publications

  • Network Flows

    R. K. Ahuja;T. L. Magnanti;J. B. Orlin

  • Network Flows: Theory, Algorithms, and Applications

    Ravindra K. Ahuja;Thomas L. Magnanti;James B. Orlin

  • Network Design and Transportation Planning: Models and Algorithms

    Thomas L. Magnanti;Richard T. Wong

  • Applied Mathematical Programming

    Stephen P. Bradley;Arnoldo C. Hax;Thomas L. Magnanti

  • Accelerating Benders Decomposition: Algorithmic Enhancement and Model Selection Criteria

    Thomas L. Magnanti;Richard T. Wong

  • Implementing vehicle routing algorithms

    Bruce L Golden;Thomas L Magnanti;Hien Q Nguyen

  • A Dual-Ascent Procedure for Large-Scale Uncapacitated Network Design

    A. Balakrishnan;T. L. Magnanti;R. T. Wong

  • Equilibria on a Congested Transportation Network

    H. Z. Aashtiani;T. L. Magnanti

  • Modeling and Solving the Two-Facility Capacitated Network Loading Problem

    Thomas L. Magnanti;Prakash Mirchandani;Rita Vachani

  • A Comparison of Mixed-Integer Programming Models for Nonconvex Piecewise Linear Cost Minimization Problems

    Keely L. Croxton;Bernard Gendron;Thomas L. Magnanti

  • Combinatorial optimization and vehicle fleet planning : perspectives and prospects

    Thomas L. Magnanti

  • The convex hull of two core capacitated network design problems

    Thomas L. Magnanti;Prakash Mirchandani;Rita Vachani

  • A Combined Trip Generation, Trip Distribution, Modal Split, and Trip Assignment Model

    K. Nabil Ali Safwat;Thomas L. Magnanti

  • Tailoring Benders decomposition for uncapacitated network design

    T. L. Magnanti;P. Mireault;R. T. Wong

  • The Structure of Admissible Points with Respect to Cone Dominance

    G. R. Bitran;T. L. Magnanti

  • Models for Planning Capacity Expansion in Local Access Telecommunication Networks

    Anantaram Balakrishnan;Thomas L. Magnanti;A. Shulman;Richard T. Wong

  • Some recent advances in network flows

    Ravindra K. Ahuja;Thomas L. Magnanti;James B. Orlin

  • Facets and algorithms for capacitated lot sizing

    Janny M. Leung;Thomas L. Magnanti;Rita Vachani

  • Sensitivity analysis for variational inequalities defined on polyhedral sets

    Yuping Qiu;Thomas L. Magnanti

  • A Decomposition Algorithm for Local Access Telecommunications Network Expansion Planning

    Anantaram Balakrishnan;Thomas L. Magnanti;Richard T. Wong

Frequent Co-Authors

Ravindra K. Ahuja
Ravindra K. Ahuja University of Florida
Bernard Gendron
Bernard Gendron University of Montreal
Bruce L. Golden
Bruce L. Golden University of Maryland, College Park
Laurence A. Wolsey
Laurence A. Wolsey Université Catholique de Louvain
Sven Axsäter
Sven Axsäter Lund University
El-Houssaine Aghezzaf
El-Houssaine Aghezzaf Ghent University
Chau Yuen
Chau Yuen Nanyang Technological University

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