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Maurício G. C. Resende

Maurício Resende is an operations researcher whose GRASP metaheuristic addresses hard combinatorial optimization problems. He earned electrical engineering and operations research degrees in Brazil and the United States, joined AT&T Bell Laboratories in 1988, and developed GRASP with Tom Feo. In 2016, he became an INFORMS Fellow and coauthored Optimization by GRASP; at Amazon, he helped develop algorithms for Middle Mile routing. He coauthored a 2025 paper on GRASP with path relinking and, as of October 2026, is a research scientist and visiting professor in operations research and optimization.

Now at
Amazon
Born
1955
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Timeline

  1. 1962–1973

    School in Brazil and the US

    In 1962, he moves to the United States, where he attends grades 2 through 5. After returning to Rio de Janeiro, he attends Escola Americana through grade 12 and graduates in June 1973.

  2. 1978–1987

    Engineering and operations research degrees

    He earns an electrical engineering degree with a systems engineering concentration at PUC-Rio in 1978, an M.S. in operations research at Georgia Tech in 1979, and a Ph.D. in operations research at Berkeley in 1987. At Berkeley, he studies semiconductor manufacturing scheduling under C. Roger Glassey.

  3. 1988–1989

    Bell Labs and the GRASP method

    He joins AT&T Bell Laboratories' Mathematical Foundations of Computing Department in 1988. He develops GRASP with Tom Feo and publishes the metaheuristic's first paper in 1989.

  4. 2016

    An INFORMS Fellowship

    INFORMS names him a 2016 Fellow for contributions to the development and application of optimization metaheuristics, including GRASP.

  5. 2016

    A book on GRASP

    He coauthors Optimization by GRASP with Celso C. Ribeiro in 2016. The book explains the GRASP metaheuristic and presents case studies for hard combinatorial optimization problems.

  6. By 2021

    Amazon Middle Mile routing

    In 2016, he joins Amazon's Middle Mile team as one of its few scientists. By 2021, he is a principal research scientist, and the team uses route evaluation and algorithmic techniques to model regulatory and facility constraints and reduce surface transportation costs.

  7. 2025

    GRASP with path relinking

    He coauthors a 2025 paper on GRASP with path relinking, published in the European Journal of Operational Research.

  8. As of October 2026

    Research scientist and visiting professor

    As of October 2026, he is a research scientist and visiting professor in operations research and optimization.

Career

  1. From 2016AmazonPrincipal Research Scientist
  2. 1988–1989Bell Labs

Education

  1. 1987University of California, BerkeleyPh.D. in Operations Research
  2. 1979Georgia Institute of TechnologyM.S. in Operations Research
  3. 1978Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de JaneiroElectrical Engineering

From the biography.

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  2. 20% of people at companies who shape AI also hold a university role, led by Google and Stanford UniversityIncludes Amazon. We estimate that 539 of the 6,766 people with a known current organization (8%) hold both a university role and a company role, including 20% of people at companies and 13% of people at universities.
  3. Google alumni have founded or led 133 other organizations, more than any other AI labIncludes Amazon. We estimate that alumni of 17 major AI labs went on to found or lead 350 other organizations, including 226 they founded, and we trace 472 career moves directly between 23 labs since 2010.
  4. 22 of 133 people shaping AI with a former OpenAI role now work at AnthropicIncludes Amazon. Our estimates of where OpenAI recruits came from and where 133 people with former OpenAI roles work now, including the companies and labs they founded.

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  1. Short Biography of Mauricio G. C. Resende mauricio.resende.info. Checked 21 October 2026.
  2. IEOR Alum Mauricio G. C. Resende Chosen As INFORMS Fellow For Class Of 2016 - UC Berkeley IEOR Department - Industrial Engineering & Operations Research ieor.berkeley.edu. Checked 21 October 2026.
  3. Optimization by GRASP: Greedy randomized adaptive search procedures - Amazon Science amazon.science. Checked 21 October 2026.
  4. How Amazon's Middle Mile team helps packages make the journey to your doorstep - Amazon Science amazon.science. Checked 21 October 2026.
  5. Mauricio G. C. Resende | Research mauricio.resende.info. Checked 21 October 2026.