Hosted by GERAD on the initiative of Melina Asadi, a doctoral student supervised by Georges Zaccour, we attended captivating presentations that illustrate the richness and relevance of the research conducted by the next generation of scientists.

First place and $500 scholarship
Juan Sebastian Riveros (HEC Montréal), supervised by Jean-François Cordeau and Jorge Mendoza, for his presentation: Optimizing Municipal Solid Waste Collection: Extensions for the Mixed Capacitated Arc Routing Problem

Second place
Shamim Mahmoudzadeh Vaziri (Polytechnique Montréal), supervised by Samira Keivanpour and Martin Trépanier, for her presentation: Electric Vehicle Charging Planning

A big thank you to our jury for their expertise and involvement: Maryam Daryalal (HEC Montréal), Yuanyuan Li (HEC Montréal), Mohamad Aziz (Polytechnique Montréal), Olfa Ben Yahia (Polytechnique Montréal), Mouad Sidki (UQTR), and Linyun He (HEC Montréal).

This event reflects GERAD's mission: to stimulate collaboration and support the next generation of researchers in operations research and optimization. Congratulations to all participants for the quality of their work!