Ada Margarita Álvarez Socarrás is a Cuban

operations research Operations research () (U.S. Air Force Specialty Code: Operations Analysis), often shortened to the initialism OR, is a branch of applied mathematics that deals with the development and application of analytical methods to improve management and ...

er whose research interests include

metaheuristic In computer science and mathematical optimization, a metaheuristic is a higher-level procedure or heuristic designed to find, generate, tune, or select a heuristic (partial search algorithm) that may provide a sufficiently good solution to an op ...

s for

scheduling A schedule (, ) or a timetable, as a basic time-management tool, consists of a list of times at which possible tasks, events, or actions are intended to take place, or of a sequence of events in the chronological order in which such things ...

and

transportation planning Transportation planning is the process of defining future policies, goals, investments, and spatial planning designs to prepare for future needs to move people and goods to destinations. As practiced today, it is a collaborative process that i ...

. She is a professor and researcher in Mexico, in the Faculty of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering of the

Autonomous University of Nuevo León The Autonomous University of Nuevo León () is a public research university with seven campuses across the northern Mexican state of Nuevo León. Founded as University of Nuevo León on 25 September 1933, it is the third largest public university ...

Education and career

Álvarez earned a degree in mathematics from the

University of Havana The University of Havana (UH; ) is a public university located in the Vedado district of Havana, the capital of Cuba. Founded on 5 January 1728, the university is the oldest in Cuba, and one of the first to be founded in the Americas. Originall ...

in 1982, and completed a PhD at the Central University of Las Villas in Cuba, in 1993. She joined the Autonomous University of Nuevo León in 1995.

Recognition

Álvarez is a member of the

Mexican Academy of Sciences The Mexican Academy of Sciences ''(Academia Mexicana de Ciencias)'' is a non-profit organization comprising over 1800 distinguished Mexico, Mexican scientists, attached to various institutions in the country, as well as a number of eminent forei ...

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Alvarez, Ada Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Cuban engineers Women engineers Operations researchers Cuban women scientists Cuban emigrants to Mexico University of Havana alumni University "Marta Abreu" of Las Villas alumni Academic staff of the Autonomous University of Nuevo León Members of the Mexican Academy of Sciences