I am an Associate Professor at the Département d'analytique, opérations et technologies (formerly: Management et technologies) of ESG, the management school of UQAM.

I am serving as the director of the CRI2GS  research center (Centre sur l'intelligence2 en gestion de systèmes complexes). I am further an Adjunct Professor at the Department of Computer Science and Operations Research (DIRO), Université de Montréal, a regular member of the Interuniversity Research Centre on Enterprise Networks, Logistics and Transportation (CIRRELT), and a member of the Canada Excellence Research Chair in Data Science for Real-time Decision-Making (CERC-DS4DM), in which I was formerly involved as a Research Associate. Before, I joint the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) as a Postdoctoral Associate within the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART) program, after having obtained my Ph.D. in Computer Science and Operations Research from the Université de Montréal.

Research areas:

My main expertise lies in the fields of Operations Research, Computer Science and Mathematical Optimization; broadly, "Data Science". My research interests include:

• Large-scale optimization for dynamic (combinatorial) planning problems,

• Optimization under uncertainty,

• Data-driven optimization and real-time planning.

• Integration of Mathematical Optimization and Machine learning techniques.

• Non-parametric discrete choice models.

Application domains include:

• logistics (e.g. location and supply chain management, network design)

• transportation (e.g. bike-sharing, ride-sharing)

• retail & revenue management (e.g. assortment optimization)

• project management

Current and previous industrial collaborators include BIXI Montréal, Netlift, Cascades,  Canmet, Gapso Analytics, JDA Labs, FPInnovations and the City of Montreal (Infrastructure section).

Student recruitment:

1-2 PHD POSITIONS OPEN FOR FALL 2024 / WINTER 2025:

If you are interested in some of these topics, would like to pursue a Ph.D. degree at a university in Montréal and possess a strong background in Mathematics and programming, don't hesitate to inquire current funding options by contacting me.

Teaching and offered courses in OR and Analytics

My courses taught at UQAM can be found here. I teach on all program levels: BAA, MSc, PhD and Executive MBA (Montreal and China).

Operations Research Doctoral courses within the Joint Ph.D. program in Administration (in English):

Our department offers 2 Ph.D. courses (given annually) within the Joint Ph.D. program in Administration (UQAM, HEC Montréal, McGill, Concordia).

Advanced Optimization Methods (ADM9956)
This course provides the basic of linear and integer programming, polyehdral theory, modelling, and solution methods.

Stochastic Optimization (ADM9957)

This course provides the basis of stochastic programming and their corresponding solution methods.

Cours en Analytique d'affaire / Courses in Business Analytics (in French):

Parcours en Analytique des données d'affaire à l'École des Sciences de la Gestion (ESG), UQAM:

Analytique prédictive d'affaire (MET8130)

BI et analytique d'affaire (MET8110)

Analytique descriptive et données volumineuses (MET8120)

Analytique prescriptive et outils d'aide à la décision (MET8140)