Short CV
Education
2023 Habilitation, Mathematics, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany.
2016 PhD, Operations Research & Industrial Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, US.
2013 Master of Science, Operations Research & Industrial Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, US.
2011 Bachelor of Technology, Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology IIT Delhi, India.
Appointments
2022- Assistant Professor, School of Mathematical Sciences, University of Southampton, UK.
2019-22 E14 Researcher, Discrete Mathematics, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany.
2016-19 Postdoc, Discrete Optimization, Sandia National Laboratories, USA.
2017 E13 Researcher, Institute of Operations Research, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany.
2017 Senior Expert, Stockholm Environment Institute, Tallinn, Estonia.
2011-16 Research/Teaching assistant, Mechanical Engineering and/or Integrative Biology, The University of Texas at Austin, US.
Academic Stays
2024 University of Bayreuth, Germany [3 weeks]
2024 IIT Delhi, India [2 weeks]
2023 University of Bergamo, Italy [2 weeks]
2023 Ataturk University, Turkey [1 month]
2021 Far Eastern Federal University, Vladivostok, Russia [2 weeks]
2019 Saint Petersburg Electrotechnical University, Russia [2 weeks]
2018 Saint Petersburg Electrotechnical University, Russia [2 weeks]
2015 Higher School of Economics Perm, Russia [3 months]
2009 University of Nottingham, England [3 months]
2008 Indian Institute of Science Education and Research IISER Mohali, India [1 month]
2008 SN Bose Centre for Basic Sciences, India [1 month]
Third Party Funding (selection)
≈ €310,000 of total funding as a PI or co-PI
2022- Two internal competitive grants from the University of Southampton on sustainability and recycling
PI. £14,883.
2022-25 Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation). "Optimal decision-making during pandemics"
PI. €115,310.
2021 Bavarian State Ministry for Science and Art. "Greedy algorithms for fair allocations and efficient assignments within facility location optimization problems"
PI. €10,000.
2020-21 Bavarian-Czech Republic Academic Projects. "Fairly allocating vaccines for COVID-19" & "Optimal decision making for COVID-19"
PI. €14,893.
2020 European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) Secretariat, Horizon 2020. "Optimal spatiotemporal antiviral release under uncertainty"
co-PI. €44,160.
2018 Laboratory Directed Research & Development under the US Department of Energy. "Chance-constrained optimization for critical infrastructure protection"
PI. $80,000.
Several other small but competitive grants from agencies including the American Public Power Association; Bavarian Academic Center for Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe (BAYHOST); Heilbronn Institute for Mathematical Research; London Mathematical Society (LMS); The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TÜBİTAK); and The Alan Turing Institute.
Honors & Awards (selection)
2024 Distinguished Research Fellowship, TU Dresden, Germany
2023 Mathematics Young Investigator Award
2023 Fellow of Institute of Mathematics and its Application (FIMA)
2023 IEEE Senior Member (SMIEEE)
2023 Associate Fellow of The OR Society (AFORS)
2019 IISE Health Systems Best Track Paper Award (2nd place)
2016 Utility Variable-Generation Integration Group Academic Award
2015 Warren & Alice Meyer Endowed Scholarship in Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, US.
2014 INFORMS Doing Good with Good OR Paper Award (Finalist)
2013 INFORMS Interactive Sessions Competition (2nd place)
5 Selected Publications
Schmitt, C. & Singh, B. (2024). "Quadratic optimization models for balancing preferential access and fairness: Formulations and optimality conditions". INFORMS Journal on Computing. [here]
Singh, B., Oberfichtner, L. & Ivliev, S. (2022) "Heuristics for a cash-collection routing problem with a cluster-first route-second approach". Annals of Operations Research. [here]
Singh, B., & Knueven, B. (2021). "Lagrangian relaxation-based heuristics for a chance-constrained optimization model of a hybrid solar-battery storage system". Journal of Global Optimization. [here]
Duque, D., Morton, D. P., Singh, B., Du, Z., Pasco, R., & Meyers, L. A. (2020). "Timing social distancing to avert unmanageable COVID-19 hospital surges". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. [here]
Rebennack, S., Prokopyev, O. A., & Singh, B. (2020). "Two‐stage stochastic minimum s− t cut problems: Formulations, complexity and decomposition algorithms". Networks. [here]
40 invited seminars, 9 chaired conference sessions, 25 conference talks.