Claudio Contardo

Member, GERAD

Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical, Industrial and Aerospace Engineering, Concordia University

claudio.contardo@gerad.ca

claudio.contardo@concordia.ca

Phone: 514 340-6053 x7019

Phone: 514-848-2424 x3482

Fax: 514-340-5665

Office 4469

Other titles and affiliations

Jan 2021 – Jul 2022

Software Engineer, IBM Toronto Software Lab

Jun 2016 – Dec 2020

Associate Professor, Department of Management and Technology, Université du Québec à Montréal

Education

Jan 2012 – May 2012

Postdoctoral research Multi-department shift scheduling with inter-department transfers

Polytechnique Montréal, François Soumis, director, Guy Desaulniers, co-director

Sep 2006 – Sep 2011

Ph.D. , Models and Algorithms for the Capacitated Location-Routing Problem

Université de Montréal, Bernard Gendron, director, Jean-François Cordeau, co-director

Research Axes

Axis 1: Data valuation for decision making
Axis 2: Decision support made in complex systems

Research Applications

Smart logistics (schedule design, supply chains, logistics, manufacturing systems)
Marketing (business intelligence, revenue management, recommendation systems)

Publications

Mar 2025

Learning to enumerate shifts for large-scale flexible personnel scheduling problems

Farin Rastgar-Amini, Claudio Contardo, Guy Desaulniers, and Maxime Gasse

To appear in: Journal of Scheduling, 24 pages, 2025 BibTeX reference

Jan 2025

G-2025-11
A service-integrated hub-line location problem with demand elasticity and its application to the design of urban mobility hubs

Brenda Cobeña and Claudio Contardo

This paper considers the problem of designing urban mobility hubs by modeling them as service-integrated hub-line location problems. We integrate traditional...

BibTeX reference

Jan 2025

G-2024-58
Column generation for the profit-oriented hub-line location problem with elastic demands

Brenda Cobeña and Claudio Contardo

Population growth and city sprawl have been driving increasing amounts of traffic congestion in multiple major cities worldwide. In this scenario, developing...

BibTeX reference

54 publications