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Professor Christine Currie

Professor of Operational Research, Director of CORMSIS

Professor Christine Currie is a Professor of Operational Research within Mathematical Sciences at the University of Southampton.

Background

2020 - date Professor in Operational Research at the University of Southampton

2014 - 2020 Associate Professor in Operational Research at the University of Southampton

2004 – 2014 Lecturer in Operational Research at the University of Southampton

2001 – 2004 PhD in Operational Research at the University of Southampton

2000 – 2001 MSc in Operational Research at the University of Southampton (Distinction)

1996 – 2000 Mphys in Physics at Jesus College, Oxford University

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Research interests

My research falls on the stochastic side of OR, with specific interests in healthcare, simulation optimisation and revenue management.

Healthcare OR: my work focuses on the optimisation of healthcare systems and analysis of infectious disease models. Current work involves projects on improving the operational efficiency of a local Emergency Department, reducing waiting lists for cardiology procedures post-covid-19 and modelling of Buruli Ulcer and dengue fever. Early work in this area focused on building and analysing models of tuberculosis and HIV using both compartmental models and discrete event simulation models to analyse cost-effectiveness and epidemiological effects.

Simulation: my focus is on the use of simulation for optimising stochastic systems. Current funded work in this area uses simulation optimisation to improve disaster relief in Indonesia, and using similar techniques to improve the efficiency of manufacturing processes. Earlier work has considered the classification of objects’ input data for simplification of simulation models, initiated by work with Ford Motor Company. I have interests in Bayesian methods, mixture models, bootstrapping and simulation optimisation.

Revenue management: my research has mostly concentrated on optimal pricing, originating in consultancy work with two major UK airlines. One particular interest is in consumer choice behaviour and in an earlier project, we considered how this could be incorporated into algorithms for pricing of delivery slots for online groceries. I was the principal investigator on an EPSRC funded project Dynamic Pricing in the Ferry Industry that developed algorithms for packing and pricing of vehicles on ferries.

Research group

Operational Research

Affiliate research groups

Healthcare Modelling, Revenue Management, Stochastic Programming and Simulation

Director of CORMSIS (2018-2020)

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Articles

Book Chapters

Currie, C. S. M., & Collins, A. (2012). Operations research. In J. A. Sokolowski, & C. M. Banks (Eds.), Handbook of Modeling and Simulation in Real World Applications (pp. 165-206). Wiley.
Currie, C. S. M., & Lu, L. (2009). Optimal scheduling using length-of-stay data for diverse routine procedures. In S. McClean, P. Millard, E. El-Darzi, & C. D. Nugent (Eds.), Intelligent Patient Management (pp. 193-205). (Studies in Computational Intelligence; No. 189). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-00179-6_12

Conferences

Working Paper

Martinez Sykora, A., Bayliss, C., Bennell, J., Currie, C., & So, M. (Accepted/In press). Optimizing pricing and packing of variable-sized cargo. University of Southampton.

MATH6004 Stochastic OR Techniques

MATH6164 Stochastic OR Methods for Data Scientists

MATH6146 Revenue Management

MATH6147 Data Analytics

MATH6001 Project

Launch of a tool for automatic analysis and data presentation

Professor Christine Currie
Mathematical Sciences, University of Southampton, Highfield, Southampton, SO17 1BJ, UK

Room Number NNN: 54/10003

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