Students

My students and I work on different topics in the domains of Operations Research, Mathematical Programming and (mostly applied) Machine Learning. If you are interested to join, please send me a message.

Current students

• PhD : Mohammad Daneshvar (ESG UQAM), co-supervised with W. Rei, 2018 - now
  Research topic: Humanitarian supply chain network design under uncertainty

• PhD : Sameh Grainia (UdeM), co-supervised with B. Gendron & T. Crainic, 2018 - now
  Research topic: Operational planning for demand-adaptive transportation systems

• PhD : Warley Almeida (UdeM), fast-track from MSc, co-supervised with M. Carvalho, 2020 - now
  Research topic: Game-theory meets discrete choice models

• MSc project: Jean Modeste Toe (ESG UQAM), 2023
  Topic: Predicting fund outperformance based on a graph database

Past students

• Post-doc : Oyku Attila (ESG UQAM), co-supervised with W. Rei, 02/2020 - 01/2022
  Research topic: Mitigating choice-model ambiguity for assortment optimization
  Current position: Postdoctoral researcher at Polytechnique Montréal 

• Post-doc : Behrouz Babaki (HEC Montréal), co-supervised with L. Charlin, 06/2020 - 12/2021
  Research topic: Machine learning for combinatorial optimization problems
  Current position: Research scientist at Wise Systems, inc.

• Post-doc : Ilyas Himmich (UdeM), co-supervised with B. Gendron, T. Crainic & F. Errico, 01/2021 -  08/2021
  Research topic: Tactical planning for demand-adaptive transportation systems
  Current position: Researcher at National Institute of Statistics and Applied Economics (INSEA), Morocco

• Post-doc : Chahid Ahabchane (HEC Montréal), co-supervised with G. Grass & T. Cenesizoglu, 06/2020 - 04/2021
  Research topic: Predicting transaction costs in the context of large orders in financial markets
  Current position: Professor at Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue

• Post-doc : Emine Gündogdu (UdeM), co-supervised with B. Gendron & T. Crainic, 04/2019 - 03/2020
  Research topic: Autonomous vehicles in demand-adaptive transportation systems

• Post-doc : Milad Keshvari (HEC Montréal), co-supervised with L. Charlin, 10/2018 - 10/2019
  Research topic: Non-parametric choice models for assortment optimization
  Current position: Professor at School of Management, University of Bath, UK

• Post-doc : Rahim Akhavan (HEC Montréal), co-supervised with G. Grass & T. Cenesizoglu, 01/2019 - 04/2019
  Research topic: Aggregation of high-frequency stock market data
  Current position: Research scientist at Air Canada

• PhD : Jiaqi Liang (Polytechnique Montréal), co-supervised with A. Lodi, 2019 - 12/2023
  Research topic: Dynamic Rebalancing in Bike-sharing systems

• PhD : Clara Martins (Polytechnique Montréal), co-supervised with D. Aloise, 2018 - 12/2023
  Thesis title: Data-driven Methods for Inventory Management in Dock-based Bike-sharing Systems

• PhD : Gabriel Homsi (UdeM), co-supervised with B. Gendron, 09/2018 - 08/2023
  Thesis title: Towards the Reduction of Greenhouse Gas Emissions: Models and Algorithms for Ridesharing and Carbon Capture and Storage
  Current position: Research scientist at Canmet Energy Varennes

• PhD : Claudio Sole (Polytechnique Montréal), co-supervised with A. Lodi, 2017 - 2021
  Thesis title: Scalable Algorithms for Discrete Choice Modeling and Assortment Optimization
  Current position: Research scientist at IVADO Labs

• PhD (visiting) : Sarka Stadlerova (ESG UQAM / NUST), 2022
  Research topic: Solution methods for Dynamic Hydrogen Production Facility Location
  Current position: PhD student, Norwegian University of Science and Technology 

• PhD (visiting) : Larissa Faria (ESG UQAM / PUC-Rio), co-supervised with J.-F. Cordeau & D. Sotelo 2017-2018
  Research topic: Multi-period steiner tree problems
  Current position: OR Specialist at UKG, Montreal

• PhD (visiting) : Janniele Soares (UdeM / UFOP), co-supervised with B. Gendron & H. G. Santos 2018
  Research topic: Multi-mode project scheduling problems
  Current position: Professor at University of Ouro Preto, Brazil

• MSc project : Chorouk Benzaki (ESG UQAM), co-supervised with J. Ortmann, 04/2019 - 01/2020
  Research topic: Predictive models for fraud-detection of credit and debit card transactions
  Current position: SAP consultant at IBM, Montreal

• MSc thesis: Pierre Hulot (Polytechnique Montréal), 2017-2018
  Research topic: Demand prediction for bike-sharing systems
  Current position: Data Scientist at StoreLift, Paris

• MSc thesis: Hugo Palmer (Polytechnique Montréal), 2015-2016
  Research topic: Large-scale data-driven assortment optimization
  Current position: Manager of Data marketing squad, BlaBlaCar, Paris

• BSc thesis: Warley Almeida (UFOP), co-supervised with L. Moreno, 2019
  Research topic: Dynamic Network Design
  Current position: Ph.D. student at Université de Montréal

• BSc (visiting) intern: Sarwesh P (ESG UQAM), 2023
  Research topic: Demand estimation for facility location with decision-dependent demand
  Current position: B. Sc. student

• BSc (visiting) intern: Warley Almeida (ESG UQAM), 2019
  Research topic: Dynamic Network Design
  Current position: Ph.D. student at Université de Montréal

• BSc (visiting) intern : Karan Jeswani (ESG UQAM), 2018
  Research topic: Dynamic Network Design
  Current position: M.Sc. at Baruch College, NY

• BSc intern : Emmanuelle Tousignant-Larivière (ESQ UQAM), 2018
  Topic: Process mapping for infrastructure projects
  Current position: Coach RTSPS, Rio Tinto

• Intern: Michaël Castonguay (ESG UQAM), co-supervised with M. Cherkesly, 05/2020 - 09/2020
  Research topic: Predictive models to predict transportation costs at Cascades
  Current position: Supply Chain Analyst, Les Emballages Carrousel, Inc., Québec

• Intern : Mériem Alaoui (Polytechnique Montréal), 2017
  Research topic: Predictive models for hydraulic networks
  Current position: Data Scientist, Desjardins, Montreal

• BSc (vising) intern : Lisa Ruan (SMART), 2015
  Research topic: Simulating redeployment strategies in bike-sharing systems

• BSc (vising) intern : Aditi Dutta (SMART), 2015
  Research topic: Imputing missing information in historical bike-sharing trip data