El Mehdi Er Raqabi
Associated member, GERAD
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Assistant Professor, Operations and Decision Systems Department, Université Laval
Other titles and affiliations
since Jan 2026
Research Affiliate , ISyE & AI4OPT, Georgia Institute of Technology
Jan 2025
Polytechnique Montréal
Education
Jan 2025 – Dec 2025
Postdoctoral research
Primal Large-scale Optimization using Machine Learning and Proxies
Georgia Institute of Technology,
Pascal Van Hentenryck,
director
Jan 2020 – Jan 2025
Ph.D.
Primal Large-scale Optimization
Polytechnique Montréal – Department of Mathematics and Industrial Engineering,
Issmail El Hallaoui,
director,
François Soumis,
co-director
Publications
Aug 2025
A decomposition matheuristic for the transient stability constrained unit commitment at Hydro-Quebec
El Mehdi Er Raqabi, Abderrahman Bani, Mouad Morabit, Alexandre Blondin Massé, Alexandre Besner, Julien Fournier, and Issmail El Hallaoui
IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, 1–11, 2025
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Jan 2025
El Mehdi Er Raqabi, Ahmed Beljadid, Mohammed Ali Bennouna, Rania Bennouna, Latifa Boussaadi, Nizar El Hachemi, Issmail El Hallaoui, Michel Fender, Anouar Jamali, Nabil Si Hammou, and François Soumis
To appear in: INFORMS Journal on Applied Analytics, 2025
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Dec 2024
El Mehdi Er Raqabi, Yong Wu, Issmail El Hallaoui, and François Soumis
Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, 192, Paper no: 103819, 2024
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News
Apr 24, 2025
El Mehdi Er Raqabi won the 2024 GERAD Best Thesis Competition for his thesis titled "Primal methods for very large-scale optimization". He was supervised by Issmail El Hallaoui and François Soumis from Polytechnique Montréal.
Congratulations!
Feb 21, 2025
GERAD is proud that the first edition of OR@Africa Day is published as a conference report on the INFORMS website. OR@Africa was founded in GERAD's seminar room in September 2023 by a group of GERAD students, accompanied by Professor Issmail El Hallaoui. Congratulations on your efforts and recognition, you richly deserve it, and we wish you all the best for the future.
Dec 16, 2024
Title: Primal Methods for Very Large-Scale Optimization
Events
Jan 20, 2025
Dec 6, 202311:00 AM — 12:00 PM
“Meet a GERAD researcher!” seminar
El Mehdi Er Raqabi – Polytechnique Montréal Ahmed Beljadid – Research Officer II, in data science / operational research, GERAD, HEC Montréal
El Mehdi Er Raqabi – Polytechnique Montréal Ahmed Beljadid – Research Officer II, in data science / operational research, GERAD, HEC Montréal
Hybrid activity at GERAD
Prizes and awards
2025
Winner of the MAGI 2024 Best Thesis Prize
du département de mathématiques et génie industriel
Polytechnique Montréal
2025
Winner of the 2024 GERAD Best Thesis Competition
"Primal methods for very large-scale optimization"
GERAD
2024
EURO Excellence in Practice Award (EEPA)
project "OCP Optimizes Its Supply Chain For Africa and The World"
The Association of European Operational Research Societies
2023
Finalist for the IFORS Prize for OR in Development
Project presented: "OCP optimizes its supply chain for Africa"
International Federation of Operational Research Societies (IFORS)
2021 – 2024
Doctoral excellence scholarship
IVADO - Research, training and knowledge mobilization consortium in artificial intelligence
2021 – 2024
Doctoral Merit Scholarship
FRQNT
2021 – 2024
Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship (Waitlisted)
Poly (Top 4) and national level "Waitlisted" (61/190 top applicants Canada)
Government of Canada