Current Postdoc(s) and PhD students

Dr Pradeep Sharma, Postdoc on EPSRC project on mathematics of Stackelberg games in machine learning, 2023-2024 Rachel Shaw, PhD Student (co-supervisor), Dstl funded project on game theory for electronic warfare, 2023 - 2027 Marah-Lisanne Thormann, PhD Student (co-supervisor), EPSRC funded project on optimization for finance, 2022 - 2026 Samuel Ward, PhD Student, DAS Ltd + EPSRC funded project on hyperparameter optimization in machine learning, 2022 - 2026 David Benfield, PhD Student, EPSRC funded project on Stackelberg adversarial machine learning models, 2021 - 2025

Former Postdocs and PhD students

Dr Lateef Jolaoso, current position: Lecturer in Mathematical Sciences at the University of Southampton Dr Senglong Zhou, current position: Professor at School of Mathematics and Statistics, Beijing Jiaotong University, China Dr Anthony James Dunn, current position: Lead Consultant at Decision Analysis Services Ltd Dr Le Cong Dinh, current position: Quantitative Associate Graduate at NatWest Markets Plc Dr Laura Murray, first position was at the Government Operational Research Service (GORS) of the United Kingdom Dr Andrey Tin, PhD completed in January 2021

Selection of visiting students or summer interns

Adithya Madhusoodanan (National Institute of Technology Karnataka, India), project on using machine learning to predict the reservoir of SARs-CoV-2, Summer 2020 Anthony Dunn, DAS Ltd funded Excel Southampton Intern for project on foam prediction in biogas plants, Summer 2018 James Ellicott, Excel Southampton Intern for project on Julia interface for solving MPECs, Summer 2018 Le D Cong, Excel Southampton Intern for project on hierarchical optimization for forecasting, Summer 2017 Dharanjay Jugun, Excel Southampton Intern for project on hierarchical optimization for forecasting", Summer 2017 Billel Badaoui (from ParisTech, France), MATLAB-based algorithm for two-level optimization, Summer 2016

Selection of MSc students supervised

Nick Barton, Classification algorithms for predicting foam formation in biogas plants, 2017 - 2018 Dandan Yang, Evaluation of statistical forecasting techniques for M4 competition data, 2017 - 2018 Shihao Guo, Pattern recognition for time series forecasting method selection, 2017 - 2018 Che Yeun Ip, Linear programming-based modelling of instructors assignment for a workforce design, 2016 - 2017 Richard Brown, Simulation modelling for optimal vehicle routing: an application, 2016 - 2017 Hao Xiong, Regression techniques to design customer satisfaction improvements, 2016 - 2017 Enhao Han, The Portfolio optimization model with value at risk and transaction cost, 2015 - 2016 Tianyu Lv, Portfolio optimization using SOCPs, 2015 - 2016 Laura Murray, An exact penalty method approach to a toll-setting in network bilevel optimisation problems, 2015 - 2016 Gu Yingzhen, The importance of historical data in forecasting through ARIMA and logistic regression, 2015 - 2016 David Riding, Accurately forecasting passengers and revenues for both short and long term planning, 2014 - 2015 Emma Chambers, Revenue management for price optimisation of competing selling channels, 2014 - 2015 Jinling Hu, Spares analysis for a military aircraft, 2014 - 2015 Kwankao Watcharapunamata, Bilevel optimization methods for demand estimation in transportation, 2014 - 2015