Draft:David Pisinger

= David Pisinger = David Pisinger (born Prague, 13. February 1966 ), is a Danish researcher and professor at the Technical University of Denmark. He is infamous within computer science for his contributions to solving knapsack problems. Pisinger is also noted for his research within; Operations Research, Cutting and Packing, Maritime Optimization, Railway Optimization, and Energy models.

Early Life and career
David Pisinger was born in 1966 in Czechoslovakia. At the age of three he fled with his family to Denmark. Pisinger graduated as a computer scientist at the University of Copenhagen in 1990, spending a few years in the private sector, before returning and finishing his ph.d. in 1995. In 1990 he released the book "Knapsack Problems", cowritten by Hans Kellerer and Ulrich Pferschy.

Pisinger was named professor at DIKU in 2001. Today he remains a professor at the Technical University of Denmark, since 2009.

Notable Work and Awards
David Pisinger has achieved a series notable works and awards throughout his career, including:


 * 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 .
 * The Glover-Klingman Prize in 2018.
 * The Franz Edelman Award for Achievement in Operations Research and the Management Sciences in 2019.
 * The ORFO Best Paper Award in 2020.
 * The EURO Excellence in Practice Award in 2018 and 2021.


 * The ERC Advanced Grant in 2023, for his research project ”DECIDE - Machine learning for decision making under uncertainty”.