David P. Williamson is a Professor at Cornell University with a joint appointment in the School of Operations Research and Information Engineering, and in the Department of Information Science. Prior to joining Cornell, he was a Research Staff Member at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center and a Senior Manager at the IBM Almaden Research Center. He has won several awards for his work on approximation algorithms, including the 2000 Fulkerson Prize, sponsored by the American Mathematical Society and the Mathematical Programming Society.
He has served on several editorial boards including ACM Transactions on Algorithms, Mathematics of Operations Research, the SIAM Journal on Computing, and the SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics. David Shmoys has faculty appointments in both the School of Operations Research and Information Engineering and the Department of Computer Science, and is currently Associate Director of the Institute for Computational Sustainability at Cornell University.
He is a Fellow of the ACM, was an NSF Presidential Young Investigator, and has served on numerous editorial boards, including Mathematics of Operations Research (for which he currently an Associate Editor), Operations Research, ORSA Journal on Computing, Mathematical Programming, and the SIAM Journals of both Computing and Discrete Mathematics, where for the latter he also served as Editor-in-chief.