Researchers Database

Dylan Jones

Occupational title:

Professor of Operational Research

University:

University of Portsmouth

Research interests: Theory and application of multiple objective optimization and the application of decision analytics to healthcare, safety and security, logistics, transportation, finance, renewable energy and sustainability. Goal Programming and its applications.

Keywords: Energy; Goal Programming; Multi-criteria; Multi-objective

Committee: OR Research Committee

Konstantinos Katsikopoulos

Occupational title:

Professor

University:

University of Southampton

Research interests: My work connects behavioural science with analytics: I employ experiments to understand lay and expert decision making under conditions of radical uncertainty; harvest this understanding to build models of how such decisions should be made; and test multiple models using machine learning methodologies. This approach is enjoying a rare success—our models are accurate and at the same time transparent. My group and I have developed tools for challenging problems such as identifying threats at security checkpoints in Afghanistan while minimising civilian casualties, regulating UK investment banks without curbing financial innovation, and predicting the incidence of influenza in the US more robustly than big data. Such psychologically inspired quantitative models help set high standards of transparency and effectiveness for various approaches, including big data algorithms. With the increasing use of artificial intelligence for decision support, understanding decision rationales is vital, especially in sensitive domains, in future epidemics, and other critical events.

Keywords: Analytics; Artificial Intelligence; Behavioural OR; Decision Analysis

Martin Kunc

Occupational title:

Professor of Business Analytics

University:

University of Southampton

Research interests: I work on the intersection between management science and behavioural science with emphasis on the use of analytics to support strategic decision making.

Keywords: Analytics; Behavioural OR; Strategic Planning; Systems Thinking

Azar MahmoumGonbadi

Occupational title:

Early Stage Researcher/PhD

University:

University of Sheffield

Research interests: Circular Economy Supply chain Management Sustainability Closed-loop Supply Chain Optmisation Mathematical modelling

Keywords: Mathematical Programming; Optimisation; Supply Chain; Sustainability

Mohammad Mesgarpour

Occupational title:

Principal Advanced Analytics Lead

Research interests: My research interests fall into the fields of Data Science (Analytics, Predictive Modelling, Artificial Intelligence, Computational Intelligence and Decision Science) and Combinatorial Optimisation (Scheduling, Heuristics, Supply Chain Management, Transport and Logistics)

Keywords: Analytics; Artificial Intelligence; Combinatorial Optimisation; Transport

Lucy Morgan

Occupational title:

Visiting Researcher

University:

Lancaster University

Research interests: My research interests are in simulation and stochastic modelling. My work to date has focused on developing new methodology for modelling and generating non-homogeneous Poisson processes, quantifying input uncertainty and detecting input bias.

Keywords: Simulation; Statistics

Committee: OR Research Committee

Early Careers Researcher