On November 19, the ADRIQ Innovation Awards Gala will take place. 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.

Congratulations !

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.

Congratulations!

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

Congratulations!

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

Congratulations!

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

Congratulations to several GERAD students who have obtained IVADO scholarships!

See the list here.

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!

Congratulations to Kwassi Joseph Dzahini, Ph.D. student at Polytechnique Montréal, who obtained a Doctoral research scholarship from the FRQNT. The scholarship is $21,000/year. He is supervised by professors Sébastien Le Digabel and Michael Kokkolaras.

The third edition of the scientific writing activity just ended. The goal of this activity is to experiment the publication process of a scientific paper by mimicking the submission of a paper and peer reviewing. This year again, several students took part in the activity to develop their writing skills. The final submissions have been evaluated by a jury of professors that have highlighted the high quality of the works submitted. We wish to congratulate the winners of this year’s activity:

• 1st place, tie: Gabriel Homsi for his paper "Dynamic and Stochastic Rematching for Ridesharing Systems: Formulations and Reductions"
• 1st place, tie: Jørgen Skålnes for his paper "A new formulation for the inventory routing problem"
• 2nd place: Peyman Kafaei for his paper "Deep Q-learning for simultaneous Beam Orientation and trajectory optimization for Cyberknife"
• 3rd place: Nazgol Niroumandrad for her paper "A Reinforcement Tabu Search Algorithm"
• Honorable mention: Tayeb Mhamedi for his paper "A Branch-Price-and-cut algorithm for the two echelon vehicle routing problem with time windows"

A summary of the winners’ work is available hereafter.

Congratulations are in order for all the participants of this year and for the quality of their work! We welcome all students to join us next year for the fourth edition of the writing activity!

The organizers,
Marilène, Matthieu and Rosemarie 

Michel Denault, HEC Montréal, from June 1st, 2020 to May 31, 2021

Guy Desaulniers, Polytechnique Montréal, from July 1st, 2020 to June 30, 2021

Jacques Desrosiers, HEC Montréal, from June 1st, 2020 to May 31, 2021

Denis Larocque, HEC Montréal, from June 1st, 2020 to May 31, 2021

Sébastien Le Digabel, Polytechnique Montréal, from August 30, 2020 to August 29, 2021

Since June 1st, 2019, Issmail El Hallaoui has been promoted to Full Professor in the Department of Mathematical and Industrial Engineering at Polytechnique Montréal.

Congratulations!