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
Solène Kojtych, PhD student at Polytechnique Montréal and supervised by Charles Audet and Alain Batailly, received the two following scholarships:
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:
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
Samuel Pelletier won the 2019 GERAD Best Thesis Competition for his thesis titled "Goods Distribution with Electric Vehicles". He was supervised by Gilbert Laporte and Ola Jabali at HEC Montréal.
Congratulations!
Title: Machine learning algorithms in mixed-integer programming
Congratulations to several GERAD students who have obtained IVADO scholarships!
See the list here.
Roland P. Malhamé, Full Professor at Polytechnique Montréal, Department of Electrical Engineering, was honored during the 2019-2020 Gala Méritas by the student community.
Congradulations!
Take a look on HEC Montréal MAG "The 10 questions you never dared to ask Gilbert Laporte and Ann Langley", Professors at HEC Montréal.
Maxime Larocque, a graduate of the Master of Business Intelligence (MSc) program, has received the 2019 Best Master’s Thesis Award.
Maxime Laroque’s thesis, "Sélection objective de variables à l’aide d’algorithmes génétiques ensachés" (Bagged genetic algorithms for objective variable selection), was co-directed by professors Jean-François Plante and Michel Adès (UQAM). The key innovative approach that was used and impressed the jury was founded on thorough, high-quality work.
Congratulations!
Mehmet Gumus, Associate Professor at McGill University, created a web app for Covid-19 Analytics so that it calculates the expected end-date for COVID-19 for each country on a real-time basis. The expected end-date for each country is calculated based on the weekly geometric average of daily growth rates. At every hour, he receives new information and update his end-date prediction accordingly. Also, he calculates the expected end-date only for the countries whose new cases are trending down.
Here is the link for the updated website:
http://covid.plannica.net
