Issmail El Hallaoui
Member, GERAD
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Full Professor, Department of Mathematics and Industrial Engineering, Polytechnique Montréal
Education
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Publications
STREGO: A scalable implementation of a trust-region framework for noisy Bayesian optimization
TREGO, a trust-region Bayesian optimization (BO) method for expensive blackbox problems, has convergence guarantees, but only for exact function values. In h...
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Log transportation accounts for up to 40% of operating costs in the Canadian forestry sector Audy et al. (2023), yet optimization tools for transportatio...
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GERAD warmly congratulates Abdelhakim Abdellaoui and Issmail El Hallaoui from Polytechnique Montréal, Loubna Benabbou from UQAR, and François Aubé and Mouloud Amazouz from Natural Resources Canada (NRCan), who were finalists for the prestigious 2026 Daniel H. Wagner Award presented by INFORMS. They were recognized for their project, "NRCan Bridges the Practicability Gap in Log Transportation Optimization."
Title: Parallélisation d’un algorithme de configuration automatique pour solveurs de programmation linéaire en nombres entiers
Titre : Online Optimization of a Dial-And-Ride Problem with the Integral Primal Simplex
Events
Samir Elhedhli – University of Waterloo
El Mehdi Er Raqabi – Polytechnique Montréal Ahmed Beljadid – Research Officer II, in data science / operational research, GERAD, HEC Montréal
A. Ridha Mahjoub – LAMSADE, Université Paris-Dauphine
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Prizes and awards
Finalist for the 2026 Daniel H. Wagner Award
"NRCan Bridges the Practicability Gap in Log Transportation Optimization"1st place for the Practice Prize
EURO Excellence in Practice Award (EEPA)
project "OCP Optimizes Its Supply Chain For Africa and The World"Finalist for the IFORS Prize for OR in Development
Project presented: "OCP optimizes its supply chain for Africa"Finalist for the CORS Practice Prize
Mayssoun Messaoudi's ThesisFeatured research
Each year, the FRQNT highlights a very small number of highly innovative qualified research projects.Certificate of recognition
Trophy for social involvement
Supervision
