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I am currently Associate Researcher at Chinese Academy of Military Science in Beijing.

I recieved my Ph.D. in Management Science and Engineering from the College of Systems Engineeringthe at the National University of Defense Technology (NUDT), as advised by Prof. Lining Xing, awarded in December 2020. From September 2017 to October 2019, I was a Visiting Researcher at KU Leuven Mobility Research Center - CIB, Belgium, working with Prof. Pieter Vansteewegen. Prior to my Ph.D., I hold a Master’s degree in Management Science and Engineering, specializing in robustness optimization of complex networks and a Bachelor’s degree in Management Engineering at NUDT.

My doctoral research focused on developing heuristics and exact algorithms for Agile Earth Observation Satellite scheduling, with strong theoretical ties to the Orienteering Problem with Time Windows (OPTW). Specifically, I investigated novel variants of OPTW incorporating time-dependent travel times and time-dependent rewards, addressing complex dynamic constraints inherent in real-world satellite mission planning. My future research will focus on the reinforcement learning for dynamic orienteering problems, learning-based exact algorithm for solving routing problems, and truck-drone routing problems.

I am currently serving as a reviewer for the journals in operations research, such as Computers & Operations Research (COR), Computers & Industrial Engineering (CIE), and in space technique field, such as Advances in Space Research.

Research Interests:

Applications: satellite scheduling; routing problem.

Methodologices: mixed integer programming; branch-and-cut-and-price; dynamic programming ;meta-heuristics.

Publications:

Operations Research

• Guansheng Peng, Jianjiang Wang, Guopeng Song, Aldy Gunawan, Lining Xing and Pieter Vansteenwegen. "Branch-and-Cut-and-Price for Agile Earth Observation Satellite Scheduling". European Journal of Operational Research, 2025.  (Accepted).

•  Guansheng Peng, Guopeng Song, Lining Xing, Aldy Gunawan, Pieter Vansteenwegen. An Exact Algorithm for Agile Earth Observation Satellite Scheduling with Time-Dependent Profits. Computers & Operations Research,  2020, 120:104946. 

• Guansheng Peng, Reginald Dewil, Cédric Verbeeck, Aldy Gunawan, Lining Xing, Pieter Vansteenwegen. Agile Earth Observation Satellite Scheduling: an Orienteering Problem with Time-Dependent Profits and Travel Times. Computers & Operations Research, 2019, 111:84-98.

• Guansheng Peng, Guopeng Song, Yongming He, Jing Yu, Shang Xiang, Lining Xing, Pieter Vansteenwegen. Solving the Agile Earth Observation Satellite Scheduling Problem with Time-Dependent Transition Times. IEEE Transactions on Systems Man Cybernetics:Systems, 2020.

• Guansheng Peng, Jianjiang Wang, Xiaolu Liu, Guopeng Song, Lining Xing, Pieter Vansteenwegen. Branch-and-Cut-and-Price for Agile Earth Observation Satellite Scheduling Problem. (working paper)

• Guansheng Peng, Pieter Vansteenwegen, Xiaolu Liu, Lining Xing, Xianglong Kong. An Iterated Local Search Algorithm for Agile Earth Observation Satellite Scheduling. 15th International Conference on Space Operations, 2018, 120:104946.

Complex Network

• Guansheng Peng, Suoyi Tan, Jun Wu, Holme Petter. Trade-offs between Robustness and Small-world Effect in Complex Networks. Scientific Reports, 2016, 6:37317.

• Guansheng Peng, Jun Wu. Optimal network topology for structural robustness based on natural connectivity. Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 2016.

Presentations:

• Guansheng Peng, Pieter Vansteenwegen. An exact algorithm for the agile earth observation satellite scheduling with time-dependent profits. Verolog 2019. Seville, Spain.

•  Pieter Vansteewegen, Guansheng Peng. Metaheuristic for the Agile Earth Observation Satellite Scheduling with Time-Dependent Profits. The 30th European Conference on Operational Research (EURO-2019). Dublin, Ireland, 2019.