Guy Desaulniers

Member, GERAD

Professor, Department of Mathematics and Industrial Engineering, Polytechnique Montréal

guy.desaulniers@gerad.ca

Phone: 514 340-6053 x6671

Fax: 514 340-5665

Office 4525

Other titles and affiliations

May 2015 – May 2019

Director, GERAD

Research Axes

Axis 2: Decision support made in complex systems
Axis 3: Decision support made under uncertainty

Research Applications

Smart infrastructure (telecommunications, public transport, smart cities)
Smart logistics (schedule design, supply chains, logistics, manufacturing systems)

Publications

Nov 2022

An improved formulation for the inventory routing problem with time-varying demands

Jørgen Skålnes, Henrik Andersson, Guy Desaulniers, and Magnus Staalhane

European Journal of Operational Research, 302(3), 1189–1201, 2022 BibTeX reference

Jul 2022

Integral column generation for set partitioning problems with side constraints

Adil Tahir, Guy Desaulniers, and Issmail El Hallaoui

INFORMS Journal on Computing, 34(4), 2313–2331, 2022 BibTeX reference

Jul 2022

G-2022-30
Increasing schedule reliability in the multi-depot vehicle scheduling problem with stochastic travel time

Léa Ricard, Guy Desaulniers, Andrea Lodi, and Louis-Martin Rousseau

The multi-depot scheduling problem (MDVSP) is one of the most studied problem in public transport service planning. It consists of assigning buses to each ti...

BibTeX reference

257 publications

News

Master's Thesis Defence of Mozhgan Moeintaghavi - March 7, 13h30

Mar 6, 2023

Title: A Machine Learning Preprocessor to Speed up the Solution of a Bus Scheduling Problem with Controlled Trip Shifting

Doctoral thesis defence of Mouad Morabit - December 8, 15h

Dec 7, 2022

Title: Apprentissage machine appliquée à la génération de colonnes

Guy Desaulniers, Andrea Lodi and Mouad Morabit receive the award for best paper of 2021 in Transportation Science

Oct 19, 2022

Congratulations to Guy Desaulniers, Andrea Lodi and Mouad Morabit who were awarded the best paper in Transportation Science for the year 2021 at the INFORMS annual conference in Indianapolis.

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Events

May 16 — 19, 2023

Column Generation 2023

Conference

Hôtel Mont Gabriel

Dec 15, 202010:45 AM — 12:00 PM

Exact solution of soft-clustered capacitated vehicle-routing and arc-routing problems

International double joint webinars
Stefan Irnich – Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz

Online meeting

Dec 1, 202010:00 AM — 11:00 AM

A branch-price-and-cut algorithm for the two-echelon vehicle routing problem with time windows

International double joint webinars
Guy Desaulniers – Professor, Department of Mathematics and Industrial Engineering, Polytechnique Montréal

Online meeting

26 activities

Prizes and awards

2022

Best Paper Award for 2021

Morabit, M., Desaulniers, G., Lodi, A. Machine-learning-based column selection for column generation. Transportation Science 55(4), 815-831, 2021

Transportation Science

2021

Professor among the world’s most influential researchers in 2020 and in career

Mendeley (Elsevier)

2020

Professor among the world’s most influential researchers in 2019 and in career

Mendeley (Elsevier)

Supervision

Sara Charaf Internship

Gaël Reynal Ph.D.

Juliette Gerbaux Master's degree

Venkat Akhil Ankem Ph.D.

Louis Popovic Master's degree

Pierre Mordant Master's degree

Adil Tahir Postdoctoral research

Patrick Munroe Postdoctoral research

Venkat Akhil Ankem Internship

All supervisions (112)