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.