Roundtable with Forums on Monday July 4, 2022, 17.45-19.00
In the 32nd European Conference on Operational Research, we will have a roundtable event of the three EURO forums: EUROYoung, the Practitioners’ Forum and WISDOM. The roundtable aims to explore the opportunities and challenges of conducting OR research, focusing in particular on research funding. The panellists span academics, practionners, and policy makers. The speakers and moderator are:
Speaker: Prof Giovanni Felici, Director of the Institute for Computer and System Science of the Italian National Research Council (from May 1, 2022). https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=tIZpkvIAAAAJ&hl=en
Born in Rome in 1967, Giovanni Felici graduates in Statistics at University of Rome La Sapienza in 1989 and is awarded the title of Master of Science in Operations Research and Operations Management by the University of Lancaster, UK, in 1991. In 1995 he successfully defends his Ph.D. dissertation in Operations Research at the University of Rome La Sapienza. Since 1994 his research activity is based at the Italian National Research Council of Italy (CNR), where he covers different tenured positions in the Istituto di Analisi dei Sistemi ed Informatica “A. Ruberti” (CNR-IASI). He is appointed, in May 2022, Director of CNR-IASI.
From November 2016 to April 2022, he is seconded from CNR to the European Research Council Executive Agency (ERCEA) in Bruxelles, where he acts as Scientific Project Adviser for Panel PE1 (Mathematics) and PE6 (Computer Science and Informatics). Since October 2020 he is in the working group of DG-RTD – Directorate-General for Research and Innovation of the European Commission – for the definition of skills of researchers within the Agenda for the new European Research Area and Pact for Skills.
He is specialized in Operations Research, Mathematical Programming, Machine Learning, and Bioinformatics. He is active in basic and applied research on models and algorithms, optimization techniques, and knowledge transfer to private businesses.
He is author of more than 120 papers on primary international scientific journals, referred special issues, conference proceedings, book chapters.
Speaker: Dr Juan Miguel Morales Gonzalez, Universidad de Málaga. https://sites.google.com/site/jnmmgo/
Juan M. Morales is currently the head of the research group OASYS ― Optimization and Analytics for Sustainable Energy Systems (oasys.uma.es) at the University of Málaga in Spain, where he also holds a tenured associate professorship position in the Department of Applied Mathematics. Juan M. Morales received his M.Sc. degree in Industrial Engineering from the University of Málaga and his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Castilla – La Mancha, Spain, in 2006 and 2010, respectively. In 2011, he was awarded a Hans Christian Ørsted research fellowship by the Technical University of Denmark, where he was also an associate professor in Stochastic Optimization in Energy Systems within the Department of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science, until 2016. Juan M. Morales’s expertise lies in the fields of Data Analytics and Optimization, with particular focus on their applications to Energy Engineering and Economics, to which he has contributed a number of technical publications, including two monographs on the challenges of a fossil-free energy sector. He is a recipient of a Starting Grant awarded by the European Research Council for his project “Advanced Analytics to Empower the Small Flexible Consumers of Electricity,” a Senior Member of IEEE, and a current member of the editorial boards of IEEE Transactions on Power Systems and the Springer journal TOP (the official journal of the Spanish Society of Statistics and Operations Research).
Speaker: Dr Anne Pépin, Senior Policy Officer, Gender Sector, Unit Democracy and European values, DG Research and Innovation, European Commission. https://ec.europa.eu/info/research-and-innovation/strategy/gender-equality-research-and-innovation_en
Anne Pépin is currently senior policy officer in the Gender Sector of the European Commission’s Directorate General for Research and Innovation (DG RTD), in charge of developing gender equality policies in European research and innovation. Previously, from 2012 to 2017, she was heading the ‘Mission pour la place des femmes au CNRS’, the strategic unit in charge of gender equality policy at the French National Centre for Scientific Research. Among other responsibilities, she coordinated EU-funded projects INTEGER (2011-2015, on implementing gender equality plans) and GENDER-NET (2013-2016, a trans-national network on gender equality in the European Research Area). Anne Pépin holds a BSc in physics from the Université de Montréal (Canada), an Engineering Degree from the École supérieure d’électricité (France) and a PhD in electronics from the Université Pierre-et-Marie-Curie (Paris, France). She was recruited by CNRS in 1996, and was awarded the CNRS Bronze Medal for young researchers in 2003 for her contribution to nanotechnology. Since June 2017, she has been on leave from her permanent CNRS research director position to join DG RTD.
Speaker: Ms Nidhi Sawhney, Principal Data Scientist with the Global Center of Excellence for Platform & Technology at SAP. https://www.linkedin.com/in/nidhi-sawhney-0322516/?originalSubdomain=de
Nidhi Sawhney has more than twenty years of experience in computational science, software development, and modelling, developing and helping customers develop scalable software solutions which require Machine Learning & Optimization techniques. She has a Bachelors in Mathematics from Delhi University, MSc. In Applied Statistics & Informatics from Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai, and went to complete her Masters in Operations Research & Industrial Engineering from Cornell University in 2000. Since then, she has been an active OR practitioner starting as Optimization Specialist at Carmen Systems in Sweden where she worked on Planning and Day of Operations topics for Airlines, followed by her work in building Revenue Management System for Car rental companies and subsequently joined SAP in 2010. Her expertise lies in building highly scalable productive decision support systems for industry which require mathematical and computational expertise. Through her work at SAP she has been working towards designing algorithms which leverage the optimal capabilities of the underlying technology stack like in-memory databases and native parallelization to ensure efficient end to end processes.
Moderator: Professor Julia Bennell, Vice President 2 of EURO, Leeds University, https://business.leeds.ac.uk/faculty/staff/194/professor-julia-bennell
Professor Julia Bennell is the Executive Dean of Leeds University Business School. She graduated in 1994 with a first class honours in mathematics and management science and received her PhD in management science in 1998 from the University of Swansea. She was promoted to Professor of Management Science at the University of Southampton Business School in 2010. At Southampton, she was the director of CORMSIS (Centre of Operational Research, Management Science and Information Systems), one of the top three OR/MS research groups in the UK from 2011 to 2014, Head of the Department of Decision Analytics and Risk Research from 2012 -2015 and Deputy Head of School from 2015 – 2018. In addition to her university roles including undertaking research and delivering teaching, she is a qualified executive coach and mentor.
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