Associate Prof. Dr. Dr. habil. Bismark Singh
Senior Member, IEEE.
Fellow, Institute of Mathematics & its Applications.
Associate Fellow, The OR Society.
Last updated: May 2025
📧b.singh@southampton.ac.uk
☎+44 23 8059 7549
📍 B54, School of Mathematical Sciences, University of Southampton, Southampton SO17 1BJ
🔗https://www.southampton.ac.uk/people/628nx8
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Welcome!
I am Bismark Singh, an Associate Professor in the Operational Research group at the School of Mathematical Sciences, University of Southampton, UK.
My academic foundation is rooted in an interdisciplinary quantitative data-science background. I have a habilitation in mathematics from the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany. I earned my PhD and Master's degrees in operations research from The University of Texas at Austin, US, where I worked under the guidance of David Morton (optimization) and Lauren Meyers (biology). During my time there, I also completed a portfolio in scientific computation. My undergraduate journey began at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi, India, where I graduated in chemical engineering. Short CV →
In 2024-25, I am a visiting professor at TU Dresden, Germany via their Distinguished Research Fellowship.
I am the winner of the Mathematics 2023 Young Investigator Award.
My research centers on data-driven decision-making under uncertainty, with a particular focus on discrete stochastic optimization models. From formulating these models to developing novel algorithms and real-world applications, I advance mathematical decision-making in complex and uncertain environments. Stay turned for my upcoming book, to be published by Springer, on this subject!
My research has been funded by, among others, the German Research Foundation (DFG), the Horizon 2020 program, and the US Department of Energy's LDRD program (see left). Explore My Research →
Latest News:
🎉 Media coverage:
TU Dresden published an interview from my visiting professorship.
Congratulations to my student Malena Schmidt for winning the 2025 Hemelrijk Award by the Dutch OR Society for the best MSc thesis. Malena's exceptional thesis produced two articles in the INFORMS Journal on Computing and Networks.
🎉 Exciting Opportunities:
A new PhD position with me in discrete optimization is now open at the University of Southampton! If you are a talented and eligible student, please apply through the university website here.
Welcome to Dr. Hongtao Wang for joining my group as a new postdoc. He will be working on discrete optimization with healthcare applications.
🎉 Publication Announcement:
Our work titled "Release immediately or sequentially? Strategies for allocating scarce therapeutic resources during disease outbreaks " (with Steffen Rebennack) is now published by IISE Transactions.
Our article is now published in the INFORMS Journal on Applied Analytics. Congratulations to my student Nikila Suresh, who was also awarded Southampton's Dean's List Award for Outstanding Achievement, for this impact-based work.
Our article is now published in the INFORMS Journal on Computing. Congratulations to my student Malena Schmidt for an outstanding thesis work encompassing both theoretical and computational grounds of undesirable facility location problems.
My article is now published in the INFORMS Transactions on Education. This pedagogical exercise is designed for introductory courses in operations research.
🎉 Editorial Role:
I am the Guest Editor of a Special Issue on Stochastic Optimization for Reliability and Maintenance for Optimization Letters. I invite you to consider submitting your work!
🎉 Distinguished Lecture:
In December 2024, I delivered a Distinguished Lecture at the Centre for Advanced Systems Understanding (CASUS), Helmholtz, Görlitz, Germany.
🎉 Invited Visits and Lectures:
September 2024: Invited to Schloss Dagstuhl for a week-long academic workshop on reliable decision-making under uncertainty.
September 2024: Research visit to the Faculty of Mathematics, University of Latvia, Riga.
2024: Multiple long visits, including an honorary lecture, to TU Dresden as part of my guest professorship.
June 2024: Invited to the University of Bayreuth, hosted by their Humboldt Centre , for a three-week research collaboration.
🎉 Open Invitation:
I always welcome talented and mathematically strong students or postdocs from around the world to join my research team or collaborate on exciting projects. Explore →