Dr. Antoine Deza is a Professor in the Department of Computing and Software at McMaster University where he has held a Canada Research Chair in Combinatorial Optimization, and has been the Associate Director of MacDATA Institute. He is a Fellow of the Fields Institute, Toronto, and a Distinguished Fellow of the Zuse Institute Berlin. He had previously held a faculty position at the Tokyo Institute of Technology where he received his PhD, and longterm visiting positions at Université Paris Saclay, where he has held a Digiteo Chair in Combinatorics and Optimization. He has been an Associate Editor for the Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications, Optimization Letters, Contributions to Discrete Mathematics, and Discrete Applied Mathematics. His research focuses on the computational, combinatorial, and geometric aspects of linear optimization.
