Raf Jans
Member, GERAD

Full Professor, Department of Logistics and Operations Management, HEC Montréal
Phone: 514 340-7256
Fax: 514 340-6834
Research Axes
Research Applications
Publications
Apr 2025
Gislaine Mara Melega, Sanae Belgarch, Raf Jans, and Julie Paquette
INFOR: Information Systems and Operational Research, 63(2), 228–258, 2025
BibTeX reference
Apr 2025
The p
-median problem is a classical location problem where the goal is to select p
facilities while minimizing the sum of distances from each loc...
Mar 2025
Tao Wu, Weiwei Chen, Jean-François Cordeau, and Raf Jans
To appear in: INFORMS Journal on Computing, 2025
BibTeX reference
News
Mar 6, 2023
Here are the winners who will each receive a half-fellowship of $40,000:
- Paula Metzker Soares, candidate proposed by Jean-François Cordeau and Raf Jans;
- Rinel Foguen Tchuendom, candidate proposed by Michèle Breton and Dena Firozzi.
Congratulations!
Aug 30, 2022
Title: Stochastic lot sizing problems with service level constraints
Feb 15, 2022
Here are the winners who will each receive a half-fellowship of $30,000:
- Claudia Bongiovanni, candidate proposed by Jean-François Cordeau and Carolina Osorio;
- Dorian Dumez, candidate proposed by Jean-François Cordeau and Raf Jans;
- Gönül Selin Savaşkan, candidate proposed by Olivier Bahn, Michèle Breton and Georges Zaccour.
Congratulations!
Events
Apr 17, 202510:30 AM — 12:00 PM
GERAD seminar
Weiwei Chen – Full Professor and Senior Director of MBA Programs, Rutgers Business School
Weiwei Chen – Full Professor and Senior Director of MBA Programs, Rutgers Business School
Department of Logistics and Operations Management, HEC Montréal
Room 4488, André-Aisenstadt Building, Université de Montréal Campus
Sep 24, 202401:30 PM — 02:30 PM
GERAD seminar
Lars Jaeger – Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany
Lars Jaeger – Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany
CIRRELT
Hybrid activity at GERAD
Oct 5, 202311:00 AM — 12:00 PM
GERAD seminar
Matthieu Gruson – Assistant Professor, Department of Analytics, Operations and Information Technology, Université du Québec à Montréal
Matthieu Gruson – Assistant Professor, Department of Analytics, Operations and Information Technology, Université du Québec à Montréal
Hybrid activity at GERAD
Prizes and awards
since 2019
2022
Best Application Paper Award
"A vehicle routing problem with time windows and workload balancing for COVID-19 testers: A case study", S Shahnejat-Bushehri, A Kermani, O Arslan, JF Cordeau, R Jans
International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC)
2021
Best Paper Award for 2021
"The value of aggregate service levels in stochastic lot sizing problems", with N. Sereshti, Y. Adulyasak
Omega journal
2021
Augusto Queirós Novais Award
"Solving a large multi-product production-routing problem with delivery time windows", F. Neves-Moreira, B. Almada-Lobo, J.-F. Cordeau, L. Guimarães, R. Jans
APDIO - Associação Portuguesa de Investigação Operacional
2019 – 2022
Discovery Accelerator Supplement
NSERC
2014
Chenelière Éducation/Gaëtan Morin Award
HEC Montréal
2012 – 2018
Research Professorship in Operations Planning
HEC Montréal
Editorial Boards & Comittees
- Member of the editorial board, Pesquisa Operacional, 2018-...
Supervision
Amélie Rougeron
Master's degree
Zhenguang (Joe) Zhao
Master's degree
David Tremblet
Postdoctoral research
Ananya Jain
Master's degree

Lars Jaeger
Internship
Jai Kumar Drave
Ph.D.
Shirui Wang
Master's degree
Bérénice Dal Soglio
Master's degree
Richard Pholvichith
Internship