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Imre Pólik
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Principal Operations Research Specialist

Imre Pólik is an Optimization Solver Developer for SAS/OR, working on the linear and mixed-integer optimization solvers. He earned his M.S. in Mathematics from Eötvös University in Budapest, Hungary, and his Ph.D. in Mathematics from McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. He has worked for SAS since 2010, following a couple of years as a visiting assistant professor at Lehigh University. Currently he is managing the Optimization and Network Algorithms team within the Analytics R&D Division.

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How good is the MILP solver in SAS/OR?

There has been a lot of speculation over the years about the quality of the optimization solvers in SAS/OR, in particular the mixed integer linear optimization (MILP) solver. Measuring the performance of optimization solvers and comparing different solvers on a test set is a crucial part of modern optimization solver development.