Thirteen GERAD professors appear in a ranking of research citations created in May 2020 and published on the Mendeley website, a search tool belonging to Elsevier, the Dutch scientific publisher.

Congratulations to John W. Chinneck, Carleton University, that was appointed to the rank of Distinguished Research Professor on July 2020. This is a 5-year appointment until June 30, 2025.

Title: Méthodes de recherche directe pour l'optimisation stochastique de boîtes noires

Professor Erick Delage has been elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (RSC) and a member of the College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists of the RSC, respectively. He is joining the College, which represents the emerging generation of scholarly leadership in Canada, in recognition of his remarkable achievements in operational research.

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The collaboration project with Ericsson, which focuses on the quality of experience of connected object applications in smart cities, was selected as a finalist for the 2020 ADRIQ Prize.

Among its achievements there is a large scale multi-level simulator of 4G/5G infrastructure built at GERAD with public data from the cities of Montréal, Ottawa and Toronto which is available to the public at https://www.trafficm2modelling.com/home.

Congratulations to Edward Hallé-Hannan, MSc student at Polytechnique Montréal and supervised by Charles Audet and Sébastien Le Digabel, He received the 2020 Hydro-Québec excellence scholarship.

Titre: Modélisation et résolution de problèmes de planification de production et de distribution à trois niveaux

Associate Professor Yossiri Adulyasak, in the Department of Logistics and Operations Management, has been recognized as one of the Canadian immigrants who have made the greatest contribution to enhancing the supply chain.

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On June 1st, 2020, Mehmet Gumus has been promoted Professor from the Desautels Faculty of Management of McGill University.

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Title: Analyse de sensibilité pour la réduction de dimension en optimisation sans dérivées

Congratulations to James Richard Forbes, Professor at McGill University. He won the 2020 Carrie M. Derick Award for Graduate Supervision and Teaching. This award acknowledges outstanding contributions to promoting graduate student excellence through supervision and teaching by a faculty member who has been supervising for 10 years or less.

Title: Integrated production and transportation planning

Congratulations to Professor Wei Qi, Desautels Faculty of Management, McGill University, who was honoured for his excellence in teaching.

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Solène Kojtych, PhD student at Polytechnique Montréal and supervised by Charles Audet and Alain Batailly, received the two following scholarships:

• the 2020 merit scholarship program for foreign students (PBEEE);
• and the et la 2020 Zonta International Amelia Earhart Fellowship.

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Nima Akbarzadeh, PhD student at McGill University and supervised by Aditya Mahajan, has received the FRQNT doctoral research scholarship (B2X).

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Amit Sinha, MSc student at McGill University and supervised by Aditya Mahajan, has received the FRQNT master research scholarship (B1X).

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Congratulations to the teams selected to lead new fundamental research projects!

Congratulations to several GERAD students who have obtained IVADO scholarships!

The last issue of the Newsletter is now available. Enjoy!
* Spotlights on ... - GERAD’s development: A family history
* Actions and interactions - Epidemic models and the COVID-19
* Impact papers - O. Arslan et al’s, Intercepting the unlawful vehicles in transportation networks
* Collaborations - Incentivizing commuters to carpool: A large field experiment with Waze
* Where are they now? - Loïc Bodart, Tekogan Hemazro, Filippo Malandra
* Postdoctoral fellows - Imène Benkalai, Shuang Gao, Paulin Jacquot, Aleksandr M. Kazachkov

On June 1st, 2020, Yossiri Adulyasak has been promoted as Associate Professor from the Department of Logistics and Operations Management at HEC Montréal.

Congratulations!