Sanja Petrovic
Nottingham University Business School, UK
sanja.petrovic@nottingham.ac.uk
Sanja Petrovic is a Professor of Operational Research (OR) in Nottingham University Business School, UK. She has conducted and led multi-disciplinary research into development of models, heuristics and algorithms for a variety of real-world optimisation and scheduling problems, including radiotherapy planning, scheduling of patients, employee timetabling, production scheduling, vehicle routing problems and university timetabling. Her research areas include optimisation methods and meta-heuristics, case-based reasoning, multicriteria decision making, data-mining, and fuzzy sets and fuzzy logic. Sanja has been the principal and co-investigator on projects mostly funded by Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) and Technology Strategy Board. Sanja is President of the Operational Research Society, UK. Prior to this role, she was a Vice-president of the UK OR Society in two terms (2013-2018), Chair of the Committee of Professors of OR in the UK (COPIOR) 2018 – 2021, and a Co-ordinator of the EURO (European Association of OR Societies) Working group on Automated Timetabling since 2006. She was a guest co-editor for special issues of the European Journal of Operational Research (EJOR), Journal of Scheduling and Annals of Operations Research. She is a Member of the International Advisory Board of the IMA Journal of Management Mathematics, Associate Editor of the Journal of Scheduling and a member of the Editorial Board of the Yugoslav Journal of Operations Research (YUJOR). She was Chair of the UK OR conference – OR53, held in Nottingham in 2011. She has published around 60 papers in international scientific journals and 30 book chapters and has supervised 19 PhD students to completion. Sanja was included in the prestigious Stanford University Top 2% Scientists Ranking in 2023.
Mirco Peron,
NEOMA Business School , France
mirco.peron@neoma-bs.fr
Mirco is an Associate Professor of Supply Chain Management at NEOMA Business School in France. Mirco’s research deals with Additive Manufacturing in Operations & Supply Chain Management and with Hydrogen Supply Chains, with his research outputs being published in journals like International Journal of Production Economics and International Journal of Production Research. His work “Additive or Conventional Manufacturing for Spare Parts: Effect of Failure Rate Uncertainty on the Sourcing Option Decision” has been awarded the best paper award at MIM2022 conference. Mirco has also been involved on several national and international project, such as the European Project “Advancing Hydrogen technologies and smart production systems to decarbonize the glass and aluminum sectors”. Finally, Mirco is member of the editorial board of several international journals, e.g. Sustainable Futures.
Mohamed Tarek Khadir
LABGED Laboratory, Computer Sciences Department, University of Annaba, Algeria
khadir@labged.net
Prof. Mohamed completed his Baccalaureate in Mathematics and Technology in 1989. He earned a State Engineering degree in Electronics (Control Systems) from the University of Badji Mokhtar, Annaba, in 1995. Following initial professional experience in the computer industry, he pursued a Master of Engineering at Dublin City University, Ireland, graduating with First Class Honours in 1998. He subsequently obtained his Ph.D. from the National University of Ireland, Maynooth, in 2002, where he continued as a postdoctoral researcher until 2003. He then joined the Department of Computer Science at the University of Badji Mokhtar, Annaba, as a Senior Lecturer. In 2005, he was awarded the Habilitation to Direct Research (HDR), and in January 2010, he was promoted to Full Professor. His research interests focus on advanced areas including deep learning, artificial neural networks, and emerging technologies, with particular emphasis on Quantum Machine Learning and future-oriented computational paradigms.
Fouad Ben Abdelaziz
Distinguished Professor
NEOMA Business School, France
fouad.ben.abdelaziz@neoma-bs.fr
Prof. Fouad BEN ABDELAZIZ, is currently Distinguished Professor at NEOMA BS, and Head of the M.Sc. in Artificial Intelligence for Business. He received his PhD in Operations and Decision Systems from Laval University, Canada. He was a Senior Fulbright scholar at the Rutgers Center for Operations Research, Rutgers University, NJ, USA. He is a leading researcher in multi-objective stochastic optimisation. Aside from his publications in outstanding journals like EJOR, ANOR and FSS, he has served as Guest Editor of special issues of reputed international journals. Dr. Ben Abdelaziz has worked/visited many universities around the world such as the University of Tunis, the American University of Beirut, the University of Dubai, and Pace University NY, USA. He has been consulting for the chemical industry and was appointed as an accessor for the Dubai Business Award. His recent research interests are in Supply Chain Optimisation and Applications. He was appointed as the director of MSc in Supply Chain and the Doctoral School at NEOMA-BS.
Davide La Torre
SKEMA Business School and Universite’ Cote d’Azur
davide.latorre@skema.edu
Davide La Torre, PhD, HDR, is a Mathematician, Researcher, and University Professor. Currently he holds the position of Full Professor and Director of the Artificial Intelligence Institute at SKEMA Business School, Sophia Antipolis Campus, France. His research and teaching interests include Applied Mathematics, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, Business Analytics, Mathematical and Statistical Modelling, and Operations Research. He holds an HDR (Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches) in Applied Mathematics from the Université Côte d’Azur, Nice, France (2021) and a Doctorate in Computational Mathematics and Operations Research from the University of Milan, Milan, Italy (2002) as well as professional certificates in Analytics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge. In the past he held permanent and visiting university professor positions in Europe, Canada, Middle East, Central Asia, and Australia. He also served as Departmental Chair and Program Head at several universities. He has more than 180 publications in Scopus, most of them published in high IF journals ranging from Engineering to Business.
Tillal Eldabi
University of Bradford’s School of Management, UK
t.a.eldabi@bradford.ac.uk
Professor Tillal Eldabi is Head of the Department of Business Analytics, Circular Economy, and Entrepreneurship at the University of Bradford’s School of Management. He holds a PhD and MSc in Simulation Modelling and a BSc in Econometrics and Social Statistics. With over 25 years of academic and research leadership, he has published more than 100 papers in leading international journals and conferences and supervised 20 doctoral researchers. He is widely recognised for his work in simulation modelling and hybrid simulation to support decision-making in complex systems, particularly in healthcare and service operations. Professor Eldabi has played a leading role in academic innovation and programme development. He established the PhD without Residence programme at Ahlia University (Bahrain) and has led the design of forward-looking programmes including the MBA in Healthcare Management and the BSc in Business Analytics. He also leads the Bradford Forum for the Responsible Use of AI, promoting interdisciplinary dialogue on ethical, inclusive, and sustainable AI adoption. Currently, his research focusses on AI-enhanced simulation and its role in advancing decision-making