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Jiyin Liu

Occupational title:

Professor of Operations Management

University:

Loughborough University

Research interests: Operations planning and scheduling in logistics and production systems, Integer programming and heuristics

Keywords: Heuristics; Logistics; Optimisation; Scheduling

Committee: OR Research Committee

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Rhyd Lewis

Occupational title:

Reader in Mathematics and Operational Research

University:

Cardiff University

Research interests: The application and analysis of metaheuristic and integer programming algorithms; Algorithmic graph theory;Graph colouring; - Operating theatre scheduling; School bus routing; Automated timetabling (course and exam) and related problems; Grouping/Partitioning problems; Sports timetabling, particularly round-robin scheduling;Solving sudoku problems with metaheuristics; Bin-packing, trapezoid (trapezium) packing, and the equal-piles problem; Vehicle routing and arc routing, particularly dynamic variants of the problem.

Keywords: Metaheuristics; Networks & Graphs; Vehicle Routing

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Owen Jones

Occupational title:

Chair in Operational Research

University:

Cardiff University

Research interests: Stochastic modelling and simulation likelihood free estimation water risk and management energy and sustainability

Keywords: Environment; Simulation; Stochastic Programming

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Wendy Jiao

Occupational title:

Senior Lecturer in Operations Management

University:

University of Exeter

Research interests: My research covers operations research and stochastic optimization, mainly concentrating on dynamic revenue management, capacity management, and inventory management. I specifically investigate different theoretical and analytical methods and adopts them to examine dynamic linear/nonlinear pricing problems.

Keywords: Dynamic Programming; Inventory; Markov Processes; Revenue Management

Committee: Early career researcher network

Early Careers Researcher

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Tom Jackson

Occupational title:

Professor of Information and Knowledge Management

University:

Loughborough University

Research interests: He has over 16 years’ experience of research and industrial consultancy and secured over £16M of research funding. His EMOTIVE research holds the world’s best f-measure for fine grained emotion detection and has the ability to identify mental health conditions. He has also spent over 15 years researching workplace email stress.

Keywords: Analytics; Artificial Intelligence; Data Mining; Systems Thinking

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Paul Harper

Occupational title:

Professor of OR

University:

Cardiff University

Research interests: Stochastic OR, including queueing theory, simulation methods, optimisation, and game theory; Modelling of healthcare systems; Modelling for the prevention, early detection and treatment of diseases; Machine learning and data mining techniques

Keywords: Behavioural OR; Evolutionary Algorithms; Queueing; Simulation

Committee: OR Research Committee

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Juergen Branke

Occupational title:

Professor of Operational Research and Systems

University:

University of Warwick

Research interests: Metaheuristics, Bayesian optimisation, optimisation under uncertainty, multi-objective optimisation and decision making, simulation optimisation, scheduling, logistics, machine learning

Keywords: Evolutionary Algorithms; Metaheuristics; Multi-objective; Vehicle Routing

Committee: OR Research Committee

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