Current Students in Management Science

Behrouz Bakhtiari

Behrouz joined the PhD program in September 2008. His research interests are in Operations Management and Supply Chain Management. More specifically, he is interested in the applications of game theory models in supply chain decision making.

Education

B.Sc., Industrial Engineering with specialization in Industrial Technology, IUST (Tehran, Iran)
M.Sc., Production and Operations Management, Chalmers University of Technology (Göteborg, Sweden)

Mahdi Bigdeli

Mahdi joined the PhD program in September 2010. Besides his education in Economics and Finance, he has held a versatile set of management consulting and project management roles in industries such as healthcare, investment and IT. His research interests include the application of dynamic programming in healthcare, financial and investment decision support and utilizing queuing theory in optimizing healthcare services. He is also interested in applications of game theory in optimal conflict resolution and making optimal investment decisions.

Mahdi is currently working on a paper to build a dynamic model for community care services by applying Markov Decision Processes and other optimization techniques. The output of the paper will be an optimal resource allocation within community care services considering multi-layer service possibilities and stochastic stage adoption by a patient in her/his care path.

Professional Activities

As a Senior Management Consultant with Vancouver Coastal Health, he has developed strategic decision making models, risk management modules in healthcare development, and an optimal policy making model for Community Care Services.

Education

MBA, Finance, University of British Columbia, 2007
M.Sc., Economics, Institute for Management and Planning Studies (IMPS), 2000
B.Sc., Electrical Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, 1996

Amirmohsen Golmohammadi

Amir joined the PhD program in September 2010. His research interests are in the application of mathematical programming and optimization algorithms in supply chain management.

Education

M.Sc., Industrial Engineering, University of Tehran
B.Sc., Industrial Engineering, University of Tehran

Cosimo Girolamo

Cosimo joined the PhD program at DeGroote in September 2011.

Education

MBA, Brock University
B.Eng., Electrical Engineering, McGill University

Hangfei Guo

Hangfei joined the Ph.D. Program in Management Science in September 2011. Her research interests are in Game Theoretic Applications in Supply Chain Management.

Professional Activities

Hangfei presented the paper entitled "Interchange Fee Rate, Merchant Discount Rate and Retail Prices in a Credit Card Network: A Game-theoretic Analysis" in The Second POMS-HK International Conference in Hong Kong, and awarded The Second Prize in the Best Student Paper Competition of this conference in January 2011.

Education:

M Phil., Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, Lingnan University (Hong Kong)
B.A., Business Administration, University of International Business and Economics (Beijing, China)

Jianbo Qian

Jianbo Qian joined the PhD program in September 2007. His research interests include scheduling theory, graph algorithms, graph theory, bioinformatics, computational geometry, combinatorial optimization and operations research.

Professional Activities

Jianbo has served as a visiting scientist in the Academy of Mathematics and System Science at the Chinese Academy of Science, Memorial University of Newfoundland, University of Waterloo, University of Saskatchewan, and Wilfred Laurier University.

Publications

Guizhen Liu, Jianbo Qian, Jonathan Z. Sun, and Rui Xu: Bipartite Toughness and k-Factors in Bipartite Graphs, International Journal of Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences. Volume 2008, 1-8.

Jianbo Qian, Shuai Cheng Li, Dongbo Bu, Ming Li, Jinbo Xu: Finding Compact Structural Motifs. CPM 2007: 142-149.

Jianbo Qian, Cao An Wang: Progress on maximum weight triangulation. Comput. Geom. 33(3): 99-105 (2006).

Jianbo Qian, Cao An Wang: How much precision is needed to compare two sums of square roots of integers? Inf. Process. Lett. 100(5): 194-198 (2006).

Francis Y. L. Chin, Jianbo Qian, Cao An Wang: Progress on Maximum Weight Triangulation. COCOON 2004: 53-61.

Education:

PhD, Mathematics, Shandong University (China)
B.Sc., Mathematics, Shandong University (China)

Majid Taghavi

Majid joined the PhD program at DeGroote in September 2010. His research interests are in operation research and its applications in stochastic and robust optimization problems.

Education

M.Sc., Industrial Engineering, Sharif University of Technology
B.Sc., Applied Mathematics, AmirKabir University of Technology

Huyu (Sandy) Wu

Sandy joined the PhD program in January 2006. Her research interests are mainly about green supply chain related issues, in particular the application of game theory models to green supply chains.

Professional Activities

Sandy recently published her research on “Games with incomplete information: A simplified exposition with inventory management applications” in International Journal of Production Engineering. She has also published "A Lagrangean Heuristic for Hub-and-Spoke System Design with Capacity Selection and Congestion" in the INFORMS Journal on Computing and had her paper on "Document Classification Using a Fast Back-Propagation Neural Network" presented at the Third International DCDIS Conference on Engineering Applications and Computational Algorithms in Guelph, Canada.

Education

M.A.Sc., Management Science, University of Waterloo
M.A., Engineering and Application of Control Theory, Xiamen University (China)
B.A., Computer and System Engineering, Xiamen University (China)

Sophia (Liufang) Yao

Sophia joined the PhD program in September 2011. Her research interest is mainly about supply chain management, especially its applications with game theory and operations research.

Education

B.Eng., Systems Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology (Wuhan, China)
M. Eng., Logistics Management, Huazhong University of Science and Technology (Wuhan, China)