As one of the largest and most influential multi-disciplinary research groups of its kind, CORMSIS prides itself in hosting a range of talks from speakers both internal and external, showcasing the latest thinking in operational research and data analytics.
Seminars take place weekly throughout the year and are usually held Thursdays at 11-12pm, in the Ketley Room (4001), in Building 54.
To be added to the mailing list for seminar invites, please email us at cormsis@soton.ac.uk to have your name added.
2026-27
24 Sep 2026: “New Exporter Dynamics of Born-Global and Multinational Firms” (Dr Hector Calvo-Pardo, University of Southampton, Economics)
2025-26
23 Jul 2026: “Huge-Scale Assortment Optimization with Customer Choice: A Parallel Primal-Dual Approach” (Donghao Zhu, University of Tsukuba, Japan)
09 Jul 2026: “Designing Efficient Blood Supply Chain Networks: An Integrated Optimization Approach to Support Universal Health Coverage” (João Flávio de Freitas Almeida, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil)
25 Jun 2026: “The Physiological Deepfake Detector: From GAN Artifacts to LLM Generated Faces” (Elisabeth Tchapchet, University of Dschang, Cameroon)
18 Jun 2026: “Paraconvexity in optimization: duality and solution methods” (Ewa Bednarczuk, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland)
11 Jun 2026: “Modified Polyhedral Methods for Eliciting Nonparametric Nonlinear Utility Function” (Huifu Xu, The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
28 May 2026: “On the centralization of the circumcentered-reflection method” (Roger Behling, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brazil)
21 May 2026: “Travel time proximity and cross-tier innovation acquisition in multi-tier supply chains” (Xun Tong, University of Manchester, UK)
07 May 2026: “Affine Tracing” (Jon Cockayne, University of Southampton, School of Mathematical Sciences)
23 Apr 2026: “Preparing for the Next Health Emergency: The Effect of Facility Specialization in Concurrent Management of Pandemic and Non-Pandemic Demand” (Navid Izady, Bayes Business School, City University of London, UK)
26 Mar 2026: “The Ethics of Quantification: Organizational Values and Assessing Human Need” (Alex Odlum, Université de Lausanne, France)
19 Mar 2026: “Interpretable Vaccine Administration and Inventory Replenishment Policies via Smooth-in-Expectation Decision Rules” (Merve Bodur, University of Edinburgh, UK)
12 Mar 2026: “When Can We Find a Hidden Clique?” (Brendan Ames, University of Southampton, School of Mathematical Sciences)
05 Mar 2026: “Probabilistic Linear Solvers and Computation Aware Gaussian Process” (Jon Cockayne, University of Southampton, School of Mathematical Sciences)
27 Feb 2026: “A Characterization of Optimal Queueing Regimes” (Marco Scarsini, Luiss University, Italy)
26 Feb 2026: “Injury insurance in the gig economy: Should platforms or drivers pay the premium?” (Ting Zhang, University of Bristol Business School, UK)
19 Feb 2026: “A Riemannian Perspective on Optimization Problems in Markov Chains” (Fabio Durastante, Università degli studi dell'Insubria, Italy)
05 Feb 2026: “A bilevel learning framework for variational image reconstruction with learned regularizers” (Hok Shing Wong, The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
18 Dec 2025: “Prediction and Prescription: On the Interplay Between Machine Learning and Decision-Making Under Uncertainty” (Hamed Rahimian, Clemson University, South Carolina, USA)
11 Dec 2025: “Online Misinformation: A Generation and Propagation Model” (Xuan Vinh Doan, Warwick Business School, UK)
04 Dec 2025: “SAA-Guided Policy Pre-Training for Stochastic Dynamic Programming with an Application to Pumped Hydro Scheduling” (Simon Zeller, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany)
27 Nov 2025: “Algorithmic Representation of Zeros of a Copositive Matrix via Maximal Cliques of a Graph” (Tatiana Tchemisova, Universidad de Aveiro, Portugal)
20 Nov 2025: “Fully Transparent Credit Risk Assessment: From Prediction to Prevention with Inherently Interpretable AI” (Niklas Keller, Simply Rational GmbH, Germany)
30 Oct 2025: “Relaxed and Inertial Nonlinear Forward–Backward with Momentum” (Cristian Vega, Universidad de Tarapacá, Chile)
16 Oct 2025: “Optimal Network Pricing with Oblivious Users: From Graphs to Congestion Games to Stochastic Programs to Decision-Dependent Optimization to Sparse Linear Algebra to Blablabla” (Andersen Ang, University of Southampton, School of Electronics and Computer Sciences (ECS))
09 Oct 2025: “From Combinatorial Models to Financial Markets” (Malena Schmidt, G-Research)
02 Oct 2025: “Anything new in the classical Maximal Covering Location Problem?” (Hongtao Wang, University of Southampton, School of Mathematical Sciences)
2024-25
19 Jun 2025: “Distributionally Robust Competitive Newsvendors” (Eojin Han, University of Notre Dame, France)
19 Jun 2025: “Use-Inspired Research in Action” (Haitao Li, University of Missouri – St. Louis, USA)
12 Jun 2025: “Well-posedness in set-valued optimization and Its implication” (Kuntal Som, IIT Jodhpur, India)
03 Jun 2025: “Digitalization and Decarbonization in Maritime Transport: Green Shipping Research” (Ran Yan, Nanyang Technological University, China)
29 May 2025: “Luxury in the Sharing Economy: Implication of Peer-to-Peer Rental on Conspicuous Consumption” (Chang Dong, Durham University, UK)
22 May 2025: “Triple-loop learning in retail demand forecasting: a systematic evaluation of benchmarking and reproducibility of Machine Learning models” (Huijing Chen, University of Portsmouth, UK)
08 May 2025: “A branch-and-cut algorithm for vehicle routing problems with three-dimensional loading constraints” (Udo Buscher, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany)
08 May 2025: “Managing Inventory and Pricing with Contextual Robust Optimization” (Qinshen Tang, Nanyang Technological University, China)
01 May 2025: “Branch-and-cut approaches for a Two-Echelon Vehicle Routing Problem with Porters” (Suheyb Erdemci, University of Southampton, School of Mathematical Sciences)
29 Apr 2025: “Data-driven condition-based maintenance” (Ruud Teunter, University of Groningen, Netherlands)
24 Apr 2025: “Integer programming for school choice problems” (Margarida Carvalho, Université de Montréal, Canada)
10 Apr 2025: “Portfolio Analysis Based on Markowitz Stochastic Dominance Criteria: A Behavioral Perspective” (Peng Xu, University of Southampton Business School)
03 Apr 2025: “Methods of Plausible Inference for Multi-Objective Simulation Optimization” (David Eckman, Texas A&M University, USA)
06 Mar 2025: “Investment planning under multi-timescale uncertainty in energy system planning: modelling and algorithms” (Hongyu Zhang, University of Southampton, School of Mathematical Sciences)
27 Feb 2025: “Branch-and-bound meets nonconvex Nash equilibrium problems” (Oliver Stein, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany)
23 Jan 2025: “Multidimensional Stochastic Dominance and Value-Driven Social Welfare Analysis: Theory and Application to Comparisons of European Populations” (Nikos Argyris, Loughborough University, UK)
12 Dec 2024: “Dual Sourcing with Probabilistic Selling: Will it Compensate for Heterogeneous Consumer Utility?” (Fanzhuo Zeng, University of Southampton Business School)
05 Dec 2024: “Solving the Rotating Workforce Scheduling Problem: A Branch-And-Cut Approach Based on Eulerian Cycles” (Tristan Becker, TU Dresden, Germany)
28 Nov 2024: “How can operational research be used to reduce transport emissions and combat climate change” (Agniezska Stefaniec, University of Southampton Business School)
21 Nov 2024: “Optimization with Reference-Based Robust Preference Constraints” (Gevorg Stepanyan, University of Southampton, School of Mathematical Sciences)
14 Nov 2024: “The Futures of OR” (Martin Kunc, University of Southampton, School of Mathematical Sciences)
12 Nov 2024: “Agent-based Simulation Models Applied to Healthcare Systems: Modelling Human Behaviour for Improved Decision-Making” (Miguel Baigorri, University of Navarra, Spain)
07 Nov 2024: “Explaining Machine Learning Survival Models” (Belen Martín-Barragán, Reader in Management Science, The University of Edinburgh)
24 Oct 2024: “Foreign Trade and Domestic Production Support Policies in Global Agricultural Supply Chains” (Sobhan Arisian, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia)
22 Oct 2024: “Preparing for the Next Generation of Generative AI Challenges: Articulating a Utopian Future of Generative AI-enabled Web3 Systems” (Daniel Gozman, University of Sydney, Australia)
17 Oct 2024: “Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage (CCUS) under Capacity Constraints: Help or Hindrance in Supply Chain Decarbonization?” (Xiaoyan Xu, University of Southampton Business School)
10 Oct 2024: “OR enabled AI: How can we operationally deliver AI in a more trusted manner using OR Methods?” (Shakeel Khan, Validate AI)
03 Oct 2024: “Challenges in developing data-driven models of healthcare systems” (Laura Boyle, Queen’s University Belfast, Northern Ireland)
03 Oct 2024: “Combining Statistical, Physical, and Historical Evidence to Improve the Quality of Historical Instrumental Temperature Records” (Duo Chan, University of Southampton, Statistical Sciences Research Institute (S3RI))
2023-24
11 Apr 2024: “Assessing systemic risk under tail independence” (Bikramjit Das, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore)
04 Apr 2024: “Gaining T(h)rust with AI” (Bart Baesens, KU Leuven, Netherlands)
28 Mar 2024: “Choosing the Right Tools: Analyzing Stochastic Systems with Analytics, Simulation, and Machine Learning” (George Zhang, Western Washington University, USA)
21 Mar 2024: “Optimizing paths and schedules in crowded event” (Valentina Morandi, University of Brescia, Italy)
14 Mar 2024: “Stochastic Mirror Descent for Convex Optimization with Consensus Constraints” (Panos Parpas, Imperial College London, UK)
29 Feb 2024: “Why (good) packing is important?” (Toni Martinez Sykora, University of Southampton Business School)
22 Feb 2024: “Making Real-Time Decisions with a Simulation-Based Digital Twin” (Christine Currie, University of Southampton, School of Mathematical Sciences)
01 Feb 2024: “Choice-based availability controls for urban carsharing revenue management” (Richlove Frimpong, Loughborough University, UK)
14 Dec 2023: “Predicting emergency admissions to hospital specialties using real-time data from Electronic Health Records: A Machine Learning application in operational use” (Zella King, University College London, UK)
05 Dec 2023: “Optimization in the Presence of Model Ambiguity in Markov Decision Processes” (Brian Denton, University of Michigan, USA)
23 Nov 2023: “Cognitive Operations: Models that Open the Black Box and Predict our Decisions” (Konstantinos Katsikopoulos, University of Southampton Business School)
20 Nov 2023: “IARA, Brazilian Applied Artificial Intelligence Research Center for Smart and Sustainable Cities” (André C. Ponce de Leon F. de Carvalho, Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science of the University of São Paulo, Brazil)
16 Nov 2023: “Probabilistic Numerical Methods” (Jon Cockayne, University of Southampton, School of Mathematical Sciences)
09 Nov 2023: “Joint Prediction And Stopping In Treatment Of Aortic Aneurysms” (Huan Yu, University of Southampton Business School)
07 Nov 2023: “Electricity Forward Curves: Smoothing and Arbitrage” (Stein-Erik Fleten, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway)
02 Nov 2023: “Costly Bayesian Learning” (Kemal Ozbek, University of Southampton, Economics)
26 Oct 2023: “Markovian Stochastic Dual Dynamic Programming” (David Wozabal, Vrije Universiteit of Amsterdam, Netherlands)
19 Oct 2023: “Polyhedral Structure of RLT Relaxations of Nonconvex Quadratic Programs with Implications on Exact and Inexact Relaxations” (Emre Alper Yildirim, University of Edinburgh, UK)
12 Oct 2023: “Global Agricultural Supply Chains under Tariff-Rate Quotas” (Behzad Hezarkhani, University of Southampton Business School)
05 Oct 2023: “Bandit Procedures for Designing Patient-Centric Clinical Trials” (Peter Jacko, Berry Consultants)
28 Sep 2023: “Capacity Management for A Leasing System with Different Equipment and Batch Demands” (Wendy Jiao, University of Exeter Business School, UK)
2022-23
29 Jun 2023: “Systems leadership for sustainable development” (Josep M. Coll, EADA Business School, Spain)
29 Jun 2023: “Reducing elective surgery waiting times for NHS England” (ManMohan S. Sodhi, Bayes Business School, City University of London, UK)
22 Jun 2023: “Staffing models in intensive care units” (Christina Saville, University of Southamopton, School of Health Sciences)
05 Jun 2023: “Optimizing Input Data collection for ranking and selection” (Eunhye Song, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)
01 Jun 2023: “Qualitative Research Methods in Information Systems: A Call for Phenomenon-Focused Problematization” (Panos Constantinides, Alliance Manchester Business School, UK)
18 May 2023: “Integrating product and packaging decisions in a supply chain: A circular economy outlook” (Lavanya Meherishi, Rotterdam School of Management, Netherlands)
04 May 2023: “A Markov walk down Walmart stores” (Giacomo Sbrana, NEOMA Business School, France)
20 Apr 2023: “Changepoint and anomaly detection—from timeline to spatial grid” (Chao Zheng, University of Southampton, Statistical Sciences Research Institute (S3RI))
09 Mar 2023: “Back to the Future: Toward a Hybrid Architecture for Ad hoc Teamwork” (Mohan Sridharan, University of Birmingham, UK)
02 Mar 2023: “Remanufacturing Authorization Strategy Management in A Closed-Loop Supply Chain” (Qin Zhou, University of Southampton Business School)
23 Feb 2023: “An enhancement of the bisection method average performance preserving minmax optimality” (Ivo David, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil)
09 Feb 2023: “Platform Work and human development” (Amany Elbanna, Royal Holloway University of London, UK)
12 Jan 2023: “On two-dimensional bin packing” (Rym M’halla, King’s College London, UK)
15 Dec 2022: “Bilevel Optimization: Models and Methods” (Alain Zemkoho, University of Southampton, School of Mathematical Sciences)
08 Dec 2022: “Duality in conic convex optimization: Exact and Convex hull forms” (Akshay Gupte, University of Edinburgh, UK)
01 Dec 2022: “Solving Markov decision processes via state space decomposition and time aggregation” (Edilson Arruda, University of Southampton Business School)
24 Nov 2022: “What I have learned as an operational research practitioner” (Hocine Bourarb, GE Digital)
17 Nov 2022: “Voxel-Based Solution Approaches to the Three-Dimensional Irregular Packing Problem” (Carlos Lamas Fernandez, University of Southampton Business School)
10 Nov 2022: “A generic architecture of information system for the marketing” (Zixu Liu, University of Southampton Business School)
03 Nov 2022: “Voting behaviour in events like Brexit or the Immigration Crisis” (Bruce Edmonds, Manchester Metropolitan University Business School, UK)
27 Oct 2022: “Understanding the complexities of the large-scale multi-depot vehicle routing problem” (Emrah Demir, Cardiff University, UK)
20 Oct 2022: “Efficiently solving large-scale optimization models for highly reliable systems” (Bismark Singh, University of Southampton, School of Mathematical Sciences)
13 Oct 2022: “An incremental descent method for multi-objective optimization” (Ivo Fagundes David de Oliveira, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil)
22 Sep 2022: “Component Pricing with a Bundle Size Discount” (Xiaobo Li, National University of Singapore, Singapore)
2021-22
19 May 2022: “The Pollution-Routing Problem with Speed Optimization and Uneven Topography” (David Lai, University of Southampton Business School)
12 May 2022: “How can countries scale hydrogen and make aviation sustainable?” (John Beasley, Arup)
28 Apr 2022: “Random Utility Function and Distributionally Preference Robust Approach in Multiattribute Decision Making” (Huifu Xu, The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
24 Mar 2022: “The development of healthcare analytics capability at NHS Wales” (Izabela Spernaes (NHS Wales), Joanne Buchanan (NHS Wales), and Daniel Gartner (Cardiff University))
17 Mar 2022: “The value of flexible flight-to-route assignments in pre-tactical air traffic management” (Arne Strauss, WHU - Otto Beisheim School of Management, Germany)
10 Mar 2022: “Drone logistics for the NHS: Great concept, impossible reality?” (Tom Cherrett, University of Southampton, Transportation Research Group)
03 Mar 2022: “Insight of Commercialization for Both Science and Social Science Research” (Yu Xiong, Surrey University, UK)
24 Feb 2022: “Screening with Limited Information: A Dual Perspective and A Geometric Approach” (Zhi Chen, City University of Hong Kong)
17 Feb 2022: “Understanding the effectiveness, setup, and speed of global COVID-19 vaccination campaigns” (Toan L.D. Huynh, University of Southampton Business School)
10 Feb 2022: “Optimal economic ship speeds, the chain effect, and future profit potential” (Fangsheng Ge, University of Southampton Business School)
16 Dec 2021: “Flexible Restructuring of Inpatient Wards at a Public Hospital” (Nalan Gulpinar, Warwick Business School, UK)
09 Dec 2021: “Developing IS Collaborations in the UK Public Sector” (Fatema Zaghloul, University of Southampton Business School)
02 Dec 2021: “Increasing Preparedness for Extreme Events using Plausibility-Based Scenario Planning: Lessons from COVID-19” (James Derbyshire, Middlesex University, UK)
26 Nov 2021: “Data-Driven Creation of Digital Twins for Discrete Event Systems” (Andrea Matta, Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
18 Nov 2021: “Modeling the Opioid Crisis in the United States” (Mohammad Jalali, Harvard Medical School, USA)
11 Nov 2021: “Extubation Decision Making with Predictive Information for Mechanically Ventilated Patients in ICU” (Jingui Xie, Technical University of Munich, Germany)
28 Oct 2021: “Inventory-Responsive Donor Management Policy: A Tandem Queueing Network Model” (Gar Goei Loke, Rotterdam School of Management, Netherlands)
21 Oct 2021: “Bilevel optimization methods for transformer-rating optimization in power networks” (Francis Garuba, University of Southampton, School of Mathematical Sciences)
14 Oct 2021: “Deep Reinforcement Learning and Its Applications” (Yuxi Li, University of Alberta, Canada)
2020-21
17 Jun 2021: “Optimal budget allocation of food procurement for natural disaster response in West Java, Indonesia” (Duc Cuong Dang, University of Southampton)
03 Jun 2021: “Brief Introduction to DCSRC and Hybrid Data-Driven and Knowledge-Based Fraud Detection in Insurance” (Jian-Bo Yang, University of Manchester, UK)
22 Apr 2021: “Applying Operations Research to HIV Prevention in the United States” (Evin Jacobson, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, USA)
15 Apr 2021: “Minimizing curvature by simple curvature filters” (Yuanhao Gong, Shenzhen University, China)
01 Apr 2021: “Improving the efficiency of patient diagnostic specimen collection with the aid of a multi-modal routing algorithm” (Andy Oakey, University of Southampton, Transportation Research Group)
25 Mar 2021: “Soft OR and Practice: The Contribution of the Founders of OR” (Robert Dyson; Frances O’Brien; Devan Shah, Warwick Business School, UK)
11 Mar 2021: “Warehouse robotics. State of the art and research opportunities” (René de Koster, Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University, Netherlands)
04 Mar 2021: “Modelling intermittent time series and forecasting Covid-19 spread in the USA” (Giacomo Sbrana, NEOMA Business School, France)
25 Feb 2021: “An Iron Fist in a Velvet Glove: The Embodiment of the Platform Logic in the Emergency Sector” (Stan Karanasios, University of Queensland Business View, Australia)
18 Feb 2021: “Research in the time of Covid-19: novel deterministic and stochastic modelling approaches to epidemiology-based decision support” (Edilson Fernandes Arruda, University of Southampton Business School)
11 Feb 2021: “Introducing the Centre for Healthcare Analytics” (Mike Hepburn, University of Southampton, Centre for Healthcare Analytics)
10 Dec 2020: “A Discussion on Semiparametric Choice Models” (Selin Ahipasaoglu, University of Southampton, School of Mathematical Sciences)
04 Dec 2020: “Complexity Studies in Project Management” (Neil Turner, Cranfield School of Management, UK)
20 Nov 2020: “Blood and Place-based Relationship and Creation of Supply Networks: An Exploratory Case Study of Used Cooking Oil Collectors in China” (Zhaohui Wu, Oregon State University, USA)
12 Nov 2020: “A multi-fidelity modelling approach for airline disruption management using simulation” (Luke Rhodes-Leader, Lancaster University, UK)
05 Nov 2020: “A Glimpse into Algorithmic Game Theory & Mechanism Design” (Jie Zhang, University of Southampton, School of Electronics and Computer Sciences (ECS))
29 Oct 2020: “A Case Study of Using Blockchain Technology in Regulatory Technology” (Daniel Gozman, University of Sydney Business School, Australia)
22 Oct 2020: “Machine learning technique selection – (my) lesson learnt” (Libo Li, University of Southampton Business School)
16 Oct 2020: “How are ‘New’ and ‘Old’ Actors Shaping Financial Inclusion? The Case of Mobile Money in Ghana” (PK Senyo, University of Southampton Business School)
09 Oct 2020: “Analysis of Medical Markets and the Use of Mechanism Design” (Christine C Huttin, Evaluation Network of Drug European Policies, Belgium)
2019-20
29 May 2020: “Deep Learning for Forecasting Model Selection” (Sasan Barak, University of Southampton Business School)
15 May 2020: “Modeling the COVID-19 Pandemic: Lessons from an Ongoing Crisis” (Michael Lingzhi Li, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA)
01 May 2020: “Data-Driven Approximation Schemes for Joint Pricing and Inventory Control Models” (Hanzhang Qin, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA)
17 Apr 2020: “COVID-19 pandemic model” (Steffen Bayer, University of Southampton Business School)
03 Apr 2020: “Making random things better: Optimisation of Stochastic Systems” (Christine Currie, University of Southampton, School of Mathematical Sciences)
