Centre for Operational Research, Management Science and Information Systems (CORMSIS)

Our people

Learn more about our team and their expertise in specific areas of risk, optimisation, finance and health.

Professor Alain Zemkoho

Professor of Mathematical Optimization

Research interests

  • Bilevel and hierarchical optimization
  • First and second order numerical methods for continuous optimization
  • Nonsmooth and nonconvex optimization

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Professor Behzad Hezarkhani

Professor in Operations Management

Research interests

  • Supply Chain Management
  • Logistics and Transportation
  • Mechanism Design and Contracting

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Dr Bismark Singh PhD, SMIEEE, AFORS, FIMA

Associate Professor

Research interests

  • Stochastic optimization, particularly chance constraints.
  • Applications to public health, renewable energy, and sustainability.

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Dr Carlos Lamas Fernandez

Associate Professor

Research interests

  • Operational Research
  • Cutting and Packing
  • Vehicle Routing

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Emeritus Professor Chris Potts

Research interests

  • Combinatorial Optimization, especially scheduling in production and transport
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Dr Christina Saville MSc, PhD, AFORS

Senior Research Fellow

Research interests

  • Safe staffing
  • Operational research techniques applied to healthcare
  • Health workforce
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Professor Christine Currie

Professor of Operational Research

Research interests

  • Simulation optimisation
  • Healthcare management
  • Decision making under uncertainty

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Professor Christophe Mues

Prof of Data Science and Info Systems

Research interests

  • Much of his research involves applications of predictive and prescriptive analytics in the area of credit scoring and consumer credit risk modelling. For example, he has researched advanced statistical or machine learning methods to predict Probability of Default (PD), Loss Given Default (LGD), i.e. the proportion of a loan that a lender is unable to recover if the borrower defaults, credit card balance at default, time to default (using survival analysis), and loan profitability.

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Dr Edilson Arruda

Associate Professor

Research interests

  • Healthcare modelling and optimisation
  • Optimisation under uncertainty
  • Markov decision processes

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Dr Erica Mulowayi

Senior Teaching Fellow

Research interests

  • Dr Erica research contributions have been those on topics related to: Post-disaster Recovery, Disaster Resilience, Integrated Project Delivery (IPD) approach to disaster recovery, Inter- organisational characteristics of resilience in a post-disaster recovery context, Elements of infrastructure interdependencies in the post-disaster recovery effort, Project and Construction management research etc.  
  • Her most widely read publications are those provided below:
  • Mulowayi, E., Walker, D. (Ed.), Rowlinson, S. (Ed.). (2020). Routledge Handbook of Integrated Project Delivery. London: Routledge, https://doi.org/10.1201/9781315185774Mulowayi, E., Coffey, D. V., Bunker, J., & Trigunarsyah, B. (2015). Inter-organisational characteristics of resilience in a post-disaster recovery context. In The 5th International Conference on Building Resilience (pp. 383-395). NCP (2015). http://eprints.qut.edu.au/86936/Mulowayi, E., Coffey, V., Bunker, J. M., & Trigunarsyah, B. (2015). The influence of critical infrastructure interdependencies on post-disaster reconstruction: Elements of infrastructure interdependency that impede the post-disaster recovery effort. In Association of Researchers in Construction Management (ARCOM) Proceedings of the 31st Annual Conference (pp. 135- 144). University of Reading.Mulowayi, E., Coffey, V., & Trigunarsyah, B. (2014). Framework for assessing the influence of critical infrastructure interdependencies in post-disaster reconstruction management.In Smart, Sustainable and Healthy Cities: The First International Conference of The CIB Middle East and North Africa Research Network (CIB-MENA 2014) (pp. 747-759). CIB-MENA. http://eprints.qut.edu.au/86935/  

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