Anke van Zuylen

Anke van Zuylen is a teaching professor in the Department of Computer Science. Her research interests are in combinatorial optimization. She designs and analyzes algorithms for optimization problems arising in areas such as: information science, in particular, aggregating inconsistent structured information; network design, scheduling and logistics, and computational biology.

Van Zuylen received a Ph.D. in operations research from Cornell in 2008 under the guidance of David P. Williamson. After graduating from Cornell, she spent two years as a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Theoretical Computer Science of Tsinghua University in Beijing, China, and another two years as a postdoctoral fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics in Saarbruecken, Germany. From 2012 to 2020, she was a faculty member in the Department of Mathematics at William & Mary, where she taught in the undergraduate mathematics curriculum and in the graduate program in computational operations research. She has been a member of the teaching faculty in Cornell’s Department of Computer Science since 2020.

Her awards and honors include a Computer Science Faculty of the Year Award (2023), a W&M Alumni Fellowship Award (2018), the Lise Meitner Award Fellowship for Excellent Women in Computer Science (2010-2012), an honorable mention for the George Nicholson Student Paper competition for her Ph.D. thesis (2008), and a Best Student Paper award at the European Symposium on Algorithms (2008).