Research

Current Research:

Robust and resilient decision-making.
Designing methods to get a robust solution for practical problems.
- Maintenance
- Supply Chain
Solving Nonlinear Optimization problems using convex relaxations.
Data-driven decision making.

Pre-prints:

A. Marandi, G.J. van Houtum, Abbas Khademi (2025), Robust location-transportation problems with integer-valued demand, Optimization Online.
S. Shahri, A. Marandi, C. Fecarotti, G.J. van Houtum, (2025) A data-driven robust approach to a problem of optimal replacement in maintenance.
M. Remijnse, M. Buisman, A. Marandi, S. Rohmer, T. van Woensel (2025) Data-driven robust menu planning for food services: reducing food waste by reusing leftovers.
Z. Kang, A. Marandi, R. Basten, J. Stip, T. de Kok (2024) Robust Spare Part Inventory Management with Emergency Shipment.
Alireza Yazdani, A. Marandi, R. Basten, L. Tan (2024) A Clustering-based uncertainty set for Robust Optimization.
Z. Kang, A. Marandi, R. Basten, T. de Kok (2023) Robust Spare Part Inventory Management.
- - Selected as the best student paper in College of Supply Chain at POMS annual meeting, April 2024.

Publications:

A. Khademi, A. Marandi (2025) Quadratic Optimization Through the Lens of Adjustable Robust Optimization, INFORMS Journal on Computing.
S. Dabadghao, A. Marandi, A. Roy (2025). Optimal interventions in robust optimization with time-dependent uncertainty. Computer & Operations Research
M. Remijnse, S. Rohmer, A. Marandi, T. van Woensel (2025) Optimising agri-food supply chains: Managing food waste through harvest and side-stream valorisation, Journal of Cleaner Production.
T. Ahmadi, A. F. Hesaraki, A. Mahmoodi, A. Marandi (2024) Managing Customer Waiting Times in an Inventory System Using Conditional Value-at-Risk Measure, Annals of Operations Research.
O. Kammouh, C. Fecarroti, A. Marandi (2024) Intervention Grouping Strategy for Multi-component Interconnected Systems: A Scalable Optimization Approach, Reliability Engineering and System Saftey.
A. Khademi, A. Marandi, M. Soleimani-Damaneh (2024) A New Dual-Based Cutting Plane Algorithm for Nonlinear Adjustable Robust Optimization, Journal of Global Optimization.
A. Borumand, A. Marandi, A. Nookabadi, Z. Atan (2024) An oracle-based algorithm for robust planning of production routing problem in closed-loop supply chain of beverage glass bottles, Omega.
E. Weinans, P. Steinmann, E. Perrone, A. Marandi, G. A. K. van Voorn (2024) "An exploration of drivers of opinion dynamics," Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation.
A. Marandi, V. Lurkin (2023) An exact algorithm for the static pricing problem under discrete mixed logit demand, EURO Journal on Computational Optimization.
T. Badings, S. Junges, A. Marandi, U. Topcu, N. Jansen (2023) "Efficient Sensitivity Analysis for Parametric Robust Markov Chains" CAV23.
A. Roy, S. Dabadghao, A. Marandi (2022) "Value of Intermediate Imaging in Adaptive Robust Radiotherapy Planning to Manage Radioresistance," Ann Oper Res.
J. Zhen, A. Marandi, D. den Hertog, L. Vandenberghe (2022), "Disjoint bilinear programming: A two-stage adjustable robust optimization perspective," INFORMS Journal on Computing, Volume 34, Number 5, pp2410-2427.
A. Marandi, A. Ben-Tal, D. den Hertog, B. Melenberg (2022), “Extending the scope of robust quadratic optimization,” INFORMS Journal on Computing 34, no. 1 (2022): 211-226
M. Cubuktepe, N. Jansen, S. Junges, A. Marandi, M. Suilen, U. Topcu (2021) "Robust Finite-State Controllers for Uncertain POMDPs," Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence.
E. Shekarian, A. Marandi, J. Majava (2021) "Dual-channel remanufacturing closed-loop supply chains under carbon footprint and collection competition," Sustainable Production and Consumption.
A. Marandi, E. de Klerk, J. Dahl (2020), “Solving sparse polynomial optimization problems with chordal structure using the sparse, bounded-degree sum-of-squares hierarchy,” Disc App Math, Volume 275, pp95-110. doi:10.1016/j.dam.2017.12.015.
A. Marandi, D. den Hertog (2018), When are static and adjustable robust optimization problems with constraint-wise uncertainty equivalent?. Math Prog. 170: 555-568. doi:10.1007/s10107-017-1166-z.
A. Marandi, J. Dahl, E. de Klerk (2018), “A numerical evaluation of the bounded degree sum-of-squares hierarchy of Lasserre, Toh, and Yang on the pooling problem,” Ann Oper Res, Volume 265, Issue 1, pp 67–92. doi:10.1007/s10479-017-2407-5.

Book chapters:

C. D’Ambrosio, F. Lacalandra, J. Lellep, K. Vuik, A. Bischi, T. Parriani, E. Martelli, E. de Klerk, A. Marandi, and L. Schewe (2021) “Energy Commodities Systems: Production and Demand Management”, in Hadjidimitriou, N. S., Frangioni, A., Koch, T., & Lodi, A. (Eds.) Mathematical Optimization for Efficient and Robust Energy Networks. Springer Nature.

Conferences and Invited Talks:

- June 2026, session organizer at SIAM OP2026, Edinburgh, Scotland.
- March 2026, presenting at the INFORMS Optimization Society conference, Atlanta, US.
- March 2026, co-chair of the track "Resilient Supply Chain" at ICRS2026, Delft, The Netherlands.
- November 2025, giving a plenary talk at Dutch Optimization Day.
- April 2025, giving a talk at ESSEC Business School, Paris, France.
- March 2025, giving a talk in "Symposium on Advances in Robust Verification of Stochastic Systems", Radboud University, The Netherlands.
- March 2025, giving a talk at the Mathematics Department, Eindhoven University of Technology.
- March 2025, giving a talk in the workshop in honor of Hau Lee, Tilburg University, The Netherlands.
- Feb 2025, giving a talk at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
- July 2024, CIRRELT, Montreal, Canada.
- July 2024, giving a talk at ISMP2024, Montreal, Canada.
- July 2024, organizing two sessions at ISMP2024, Montreal, Canada.
- July 2023, XVI International Conference on Stochastic Programming, Davis, USA.
- June 2023, Robust Optimization, Graduate School in Systems, Optimization, Control, and Networks (SOCN), Liege, Belgium.
- May 2023, SIAM Conference on Optimization, Seattle, USA.
- March 2023, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands.
- July 2022, Organizing two sessions in The seventh International Conference in Continuous Optimization (ICCOPT), Lehigh University, USA.
- June 2022, European Conference on Stochastic Optimization, Venice, Italy.
- Dec 2021, Workshop on Advancements in on-demand city logistics, Delft Technical University, The Netherlands.
- Dec 2021, Autumn School and Workshop on Combinatorial Optimization (SCOPT2021), Isfahan University of Technology, Iran.
- July 2021, Workshop on Flavors of Uncertainty in Verification, Planning, and Optimization (FUNCTION 2021).
- March 2021, Department of Management Science and Statistics, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA.
- July 2020, Robust Optimization Webinar, International Online Event (click here to watch the recorded video).
- May 2020, Department of Econometrics and Operations Research, Tilburg University, The Netherlands.
- August 2019, The Sixth International Conference in Continuous Optimization (ICCOPT), Berlin, Germany.
- April 2019, 2nd IMA and OR Society Conference on Mathematics of Operational Research, UK.
- November 2018, Department of Econometrics, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
- August 2018, Department of Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science, University of Tehran, Iran.
- July 2018, 29th European Conference on Operations Research (EURO), Valencia, Spain.
- July 2018, The International Symposium on Mathematical Programming (ISMP), Bordeaux, France.
- May 2017, SIAM Conference on Optimization, (SIAMOP17), Vancouver, Canada.
- August 2016, The Fifth International Conference in Continuous Optimization (ICCOPT), Tokyo, Japan.
- January 2016, The Symposium on Pooling and Waste Water Management Problems, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands.
- January 2016, Institute for Research in Fundamental Science (IPM), Tehran, Iran.
- July 2015, The International Symposium on Mathematical Programming (ISMP), Pittsburg, USA.

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