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 Sasan Barak

Lecturer in Business Analytics

Research interests

  • Financial Machine Learning (including Portfolio Optimisation, Algorithmic Trading)
  • Forecasting (Model Selection, Meta-Learning, Deep Learning)
  • Statistical and Machine Learning Algorithms in Analytics

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Professor Selin Ahipasaoglu PhD

Professor

Research interests

  • Convex Optimisation
  • Robust Optimisation
  • Discrete Choice Theory and Applications

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Dr Simon Troup

Principal Enterprise Fellow

Research interests

  • data wrangling, data science and data products
  • tech product strategy and business models
  • fintech unbundling and platforms
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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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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 Vesna Perisic

Principal Teaching Fellow

Research interests

  • Pedagogical Research 
  • Assessment and Feedback
  • Student Staff Partnerships
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