David Pisinger

Professor DTU Management Engineering Technical University of Denmark
Adjoint Professor, DIKU, University of Copenhagen
e-mail: dapi [at] dtu.dk

Research Interests

Operations Research, Cutting and Packing, Maritime Optimization, Railway Optimization, Energy models

Optimization Codes

Algorithms for several variants of the knapsack problem can be downloaded at the following page. This includes test generators and best known values for several instances. Also some algorithms for cutting and packing may be found in that section.

Awards

Ph.D. prize of the Danish Academy of Natural Sciences (1995).
Award of teaching excellence, Faculty of Natural Sciences, University of Copenhagen (2000).
Hedorf Fond prize for Transport Research (2013)
Teacher of the year 2016 DTU Management Engineering
Nominated as "Teacher of the year" at DTU, 2010, 2011, 2013 by Polyteknisk Forening

Awarded PhD students

Bjorn Petersen (2012) VEROLOG dissertation prize, for best PhD in transportation.
Jorgen Haahr (2015) VEROLOG dissertation prize, for best PhD in transportation.

Awarded master thesis students

Claus R. Gareissen (1998) Best master thesis in computer science, Dansk Selskab for Datalogi (Danish Society of Computer Science)
Claus R. Gareissen (1998) Best master thesis in Operations Research, Dansk Selskab for Operationsanalyse (Danish Operations Research Society)
Jens Egeblad (2003) Best master thesis in Operations Research, Dansk Selskab for Operationsanalyse (Danish Operations Research Society)
Mads K. Jepsen, Bjorn Petersen, Simon Spoorendonk (2005) Best master thesis in Operations Research, Dansk Selskab for Operationsanalyse (Danish Operations Research Society)
Berit Lofstedt Brouer (2007) Thy Talent Award, Innovation Prize for M.Sc. theses.
Jakob Dirksen (2011) Best M.Sc. thesis in Operations Research. Dansk Selskab for Operationsanalyse (Danish Operations Research Society)
Janus Timler Holm, Jakob Larsen (2014) Best M.Sc. thesis in Operations Research. Dansk Selskab for Operationsanalyse (Danish Operations Research Society)

Publications

The best overview is found at Google Scholar. A list of older publications can be found here.

Projects

ENERPLAN - Energy Efficient Transportation Planning home page
GREENSHIP - Green Liner Shipping home page
RobustRailS - Robust Railway OperationS home page
Competitive Liner Shipping Network Design home page
BioChain - Optimization of value chains for biogas production in Denmark home page

Professional activities

EURO-2015 27th European Conference on Operational Research, Glasgow 2015.
PATH05 Summer School on Shortest Paths.
NIK Natural Science IT competence Center.
FIRST ph.d. school.
ISMP 2003 conference on mathematical programming.
IT-strategy board of the faculty.
ARCO Applied Research in Combinatorial Optimization.
Algorithmics and Optimization Seminar at DIKU.
DORS the Danish OR Society.
AGIFORS Airline Group of INFORMS.

General Information

Work Address:
David Pisinger, DTU Management Engineering, Technical University of Denmark, Produktionstorvet 424, DK-2800 Kgs. Lyngby, phone: +45 45 25 45 55