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.

Dr Soroosh Saghiri BSc, MSc, MA, PhD, SFHEA, FCILT

Associate Professor of Operations

Research interests

  • Procurement and Supply Chain Strategies: with an emphasis on industry 4.0 applications
  • Supply Chain Risk and Resilience Management
  • Operations Digital Transformation

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Dr Stefano Cipolla

Lecturer in Operational Research

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Dr Steffen Bayer

Lecturer in Business Analytics

Research interests

  • Simulation Modelling
  • Health Systems Research
  • Health Planning

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Dr Stephan Onggo PhD, SFHEA

Professor of Business Analytics

Research interests

  • Simulation Modelling Methodology
  • Behavioural Modelling using Simulation
  • Simulation for real-time decision making (digital twin)

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Dr Thanos Avramidis

Lecturer in Operational Research

Research interests

  • Finite-state, finite-action Markov Decision process
  • Stochastic (Monte Carlo) simulation in pricing financial deritivates

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Dr Tiejun Ma

Associate Professor

Research interests

  • Financial Risk Modelling
  • Investors Behaviour Modelling
  • Fintech
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Professor Toni Martinez Sykora

Professor

Research interests

  • Optimisation and Combinatorial Optimisation 
  • Cutting and packing problems
  • Transportation and vehicle routing problems

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Dr Vuong Phan PhD, FHAE, PGCAP

Associate Professor

Research interests

  • Continuous optimisation
  • Dynamical systems
  • Optimal control

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Dr Xiaoyan Xu PhD

Lecturer in Ops & Supply Chain Mgmt

Research interests

  • Sustainable supply chain management
  • Supply chain digitalization
  • Marketing and operations interfaces

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Dr Yu (Jack) Gong

Associate Professor

Research interests

  • Sustainable supply chain management
  • Supply chain innovation
  • Blockchain technology

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