Dr Ruth Misener (she/her) is a Professor in the Computational Optimization Group. Foundations of her research are in numerical optimization algorithms and computational software. Her applications focus on optimization challenges arising in industry, e.g. scheduling in manufacturing or experimental design in chemicals research. Ruth also contributes at the interface between operations research and machine learning.
Ruth is the BASF/RAEng Research Chair in Data-Driven Optimization (2022-27). She received the Macfarlane Medal as the overall winner of the 2017 RAEng Engineers Trust Young Engineer of the Year competition.
Ruth’s research team develops open-source code on GitHub, releases video presentations on YouTube, and announces new research on Twitter (Ruth @RuthMisener, Group @CogImperial).