Supervision
Current
Post-doc supervision
2023— Eduardo Vieira Queiroga, Post-doc in Informatics at UFPB, Supervisor.
2024— Vinícius Loti de Lima, Post-doc in Informatics at UFPB, Supervisor.
Doctoral thesis supervision
2022— Laura Portell Penadés, Ph.D. in Information Technologies and Communication Technologies at Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Spain, Co-advisor.
2022— Rafael Maranhão Rêgo Praxedes, Ph.D. in Information Technologies at Università degli studi di Parma, Italy, Co-advisor.
2022— Igor de Almeida Malheiros Barbosa, Ph.D. in Operations Research at Université de Montpellier, France, Co-advisor.
2021— Nathalie Sanghikian, D.Sc. in Production Engineering at Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio), Brazil, Co-advisor.
Masters thesis supervision
2024— José Felipe Nunes da Silva, M.Sc. in Informatics at UFPB, Co-advisor.
2024— Yure Talis Rocha Silva, M.Sc. in Informatics at UFPB, Co-advisor.
2024— Rafael Sobral de Morais, M.Sc. in Informatics at UFPB, Advisor.
2024— Rodrigo da Costa Ramalho, M.Sc. in Informatics at UFPB, Advisor.
2024— Carlos Vinícius Costa Neves, M.Sc. in Informatics at UFPB, Advisor.
2022— Frederico de Souza Guerra, M.Sc. in Informatics at UFPB, Advisor.
Undergraduate students
2024— Luiz Henrique Queiroz de Albuquerque Silva
2024— Luerson de Albuquerque Silva Filho
2023— Gustavo José Leite Cordeiro
2023— Marcelo de Freitas Cavalcante
2023— Petrus George Leal Ismael da Costa Neves
2023— Raquel Patricio Moraes
2022— Ana Carolina Moura Marques Alves.
2022— Felipe Lemos Severo
2022— Juliana Dantas Aranha da Costa
2022— Leandro Lucas de Oliveira Bandeira
2022— Vinicius Freitas Schiavinato Olzon
2021— Renata Mendes Pereira Campos
2021— Victor Emmanuel Moreira Leite Mororó
2020— Anderson da Silva Coutinho
Past
Post-doc supervision
2020—2021 Tiago de Oliveira Januario, A heuristic approach for the two-echelon vehicle routing problem, Post-doc in Informatics at UFPB, Supervisor.
Doctoral thesis supervision
2020—2024 João Marcos Pereira Silva, A novel strategy for branching on vehicle routing and solving the colored traveling salesman problem. D.Sc. in Production Engineering at Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF), Brazil, Co-advisor.
Masters thesis supervision
2021—2023 José Maurício Fernandes Medeiros, A heuristic approach for minimizing the weighted tardiness on parallel machine batch scheduling, M.Sc. in Informatics at UFPB, Advisor.
2021—2023 Ewerton Victor Paredes da Penha Teixeira, A heuristic approach for minimizing the makespan in blocking flow shop, M.Sc. in Production and Systems Engineering at UFPB, Advisor.
2020—2022 Rafael Maranhão Rêgo Praxedes, A unified exact approach for a class of vehicle routing problem with simultaneous pickup and delivery, M.Sc. in Informatics at UFPB, Advisor.
2019—2021 Robertson Richelle Pessoa Lima, Computational resource allocation in Fog-Cloud networks for IoMT-based healthcare environments, M.Sc. in Informatics at UFPB, Co-advisor.
2018—2020 Igor de Almeida Malheiros Barbosa, A hybrid algorithm for the multi-depot heterogeneous dial-a-ride problem, M.Sc. in Informatics at UFPB, Advisor.
2018—2020 Jordana Zerpini Mecler, A simple and effective hybrid genetic search for the job sequencing and tool switching problem, M.Sc. in Informatics at Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio), Co-advisor.
2017—2019 Anderson Rufino dos Santos Silva, An optimization-based approach for generating guitar licks, M.Sc. in Informatics at UFPB, Advisor.
2017—2019 Victor Hugo Azevêdo da Silva, Intersections management for optimizing the traffic of autonomous vehicles, M.Sc. in Informatics at UFPB, Co-advisor.
2017—2019 João Marcos Pereira Silva, Exact and heuristic approaches for identical parallel machine scheduling with a common server and sequence-dependent setup times, M.Sc. in Production Engineering at UFPB, Advisor.
2018—2019 Raphael Medeiros Alves, Minimizing the energy costs in classroom assignment: the case of a Federal Educational Institute, M.Sc. in Informatics at UFPB, Advisor.
2017—2019 Rubens Godofredo Soares Correia, Mathematical formulations and hybrid algorithm for the conference scheduling problem, M.Sc. in Informatics at UFPB, Advisor.
2016—2018 Ana Beatriz Fernandes Herthel, A heuristic approach for the single-finger keyboard layout problem, M.Sc. in Production Engineering at UFPB, Advisor.
2016—2018 Carlos Magno de Oliveira Araújo, An optimization model for the routing and spectrum allocation problem for flexgrid optical networks, M.Sc. in Informatics at UFPB, Co-advisor.
2015—2017 Yuri Laio Teixeira Veras Silva, A metaheuristic for a class of portfolio optimization problems, M.Sc. in Production Engineering at UFPB, Advisor.
2015—2017 Eduardo Vieira Queiroga, Metaheuristic approaches for data clustering and image segmentation, M.Sc. in Informatics at UFPB, Co-advisor.
2014—2016 Nailson dos Santos Cunha, A framework for semiautomatic generation of guitar solos, M.Sc. in Informatics at UFPB, Advisor.
2014—2016 Fábio Cruz Barbosa de Albuquerque, A heuristic approach for a single rebalancing problem in bike sharing systems, M.Sc. in Informatics at UFPB, Advisor.
2013—2015 Arthur Harry Frederico Ribeiro Kramer, A heuristic method for solving a class of earliness-tardiness scheduling problems, M.Sc. in Production Engineering at UFPB, Advisor.
2013—2015 Glend Kleiser Gouveia Dias, A solution proposal for the aircraft recovery problem in small size regular airline companies, M.Sc. in Production Engineering at UFPB, Advisor.
2014—2015 Luciano Carlos Azevedo da Costa, A Pareto local search-based heuristic for bi-objective pollution-routing problem, M.Sc. in Production Engineering at UFPB, Advisor.
2014—2015 Teobaldo Leite Bulhões Júnior, Exact algorithms for p-cluster editing problem, M.Sc. in Informatics at UFPB, Co-advisor.
2012—2014 Raphael Harry Frederico Ribeiro Kramer, A heuristic approach for the pollution-routing problem, M.Sc. in Production Engineering at UFPB, Advisor.
2012—2014 Walton Pereira Coutinho, A branch-and-bound algorithm for the close-enough traveling salesman problem, M.Sc. in Production Engineering at UFPB, Co-advisor.
Undergraduate thesis supervision
2024 Lara di Cavalcanti Pontes,The maximum length car sequencing problem, B.Sc. in Computer Engineering at UFPB, Advisor.
2023 Carlos Vinícius Costa Neves, A unified matheuristic for a class of vehicle routing problems under time and demand uncertainty, B.Sc. in Computer Engineering at UFPB, Advisor.
2023 Rafael Sobral de Morais, A heuristic approach for single machine scheduling with release dates and sequence-dependent setup times, B.Sc. in Computer Engineering at UFPB, Advisor.
2023 Bruno Sidnei Guerra Passeti, An efficient heuristic for the traveling salesman problem with time windows, B.Sc. in Computer Engineering at UFPB, Advisor.
2023 Rodrigo da Costa Ramalho, Heuristic and exact approaches for the shortest path time-dependent vehicle routing problem, B.Sc. in Computer Engineering at UFPB, Advisor.
2023 José Felipe Nunes da Silva, The conference scheduling problem with examiners, B.Sc. in Computer Engineering at UFPB, Advisor.
2023 Yure Talis Rocha Silva, Hybrid genetic search for the traveling salesman problem with hybrid electric vehicle and time windows, B.Sc. in Computer Engineering at UFPB, Advisor.
2020 Ewerton Victor Paredes da Penha Teixeira, An iterated local search metaheuristic for the school bus routing problem, B.Sc. in Production Engineering at UFPB, Advisor.
2017 Vitor Luis Nesello, Mathematical formulations for the periodic maintenance single machine scheduling problem with sequence-dependent setup times, B.Sc. in Production Engineering at UFPB, Advisor.
2015 Yuri Laio Teixeira Veras Silva, Exact approaches and heuristic algorithm for the order acceptance scheduling problem, B.Sc. in Production Engineering at UFPB, Advisor.
2013 Arthur Harry Frederico Ribeiro Kramer, Demand forecasting with time series analysis: a case study in a furniture industry, B.Sc. in Mechanical Production Engineering at UFPB, Advisor.
2013 Luciano Carlos Azevedo da Costa, Optimization in the management of academic activities: applications at UFPB, B.Sc. in Mechanical Production Engineering at UFPB, Advisor.
2011 Raphael Harry Frederico Ribeiro Kramer, Asymmetric vehicle routing problem with heterogeneous limited fleet: a case study in a beverage industry, B.Sc. in Mechanical Production Engineering at UFPB, Advisor.
International visiting students supervision
2015 Quentin Christ, Iterated local search for single machine total weighted tardiness batch scheduling, MSc student at Grenoble INP – Génie industriel, France, Supervisor
2015 Bruno Bruck, The static bike sharing rebalancing problem with forbidden temporary operations, PhD student at Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia (UNIMORE), Italy, Supervisor.
2015 Maxence Delorme, Mathematical models and decomposition algorithms for makespan minimization in plastic rolls production, PhD student at Università di Bologna, Italy, Supervisor.
2014 Bruno Bruck, A heuristic algorithm for a single vehicle static bike sharing rebalancing problem, PhD student at Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia (UNIMORE), Italy, Supervisor.
2014 Stefano Novellani, The bike sharing rebalancing problem with stochastic demands, PhD student at Università di Bologna, Italy, Supervisor.
2013 Anne-Lise Creissen, An Iterated Local Search heuristic for the Sequential Ordering Problem, MSc student at Grenoble INP - UGA, France, Supervisor.
2012—2013 Catherine Cherrier, An Iterated Local Search Heuristic Algorithm for a Single-Machine Scheduling Problem with Precedence Constraints, MSc student at Grenoble INP – Génie industriel, France, Supervisor.