Cindy A. Phillips

Cindy Phillips is a Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff in the Algorithms and Discrete Math Department at Sandia National Laboratories.  She received a B.A. in applied mathematics from Harvard University in 1983 and a PhD in computer science from MIT in 1990. She joined Sandia National Laboratories in 1990 where she has conducted research in combinatorial optimization, algorithm design and analysis, and parallel computation with applications to scheduling, network and infrastructure surety, integer programming, graph algorithms, vehicle routing, computational biology, and experimental algorithmics.  She is one of three main developers of the PICO massively-parallel integer programming code. In 2006, she was a member of the Compute Process Allocator (CPA) team that won an R&D 100 award.  She is currently the PI on a 3-year DOE ASCR grant entitled "Advanced Modeling and Decomposition Techniques for Large-Scale Combinatorial Problems."

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