Er Raqabi El Mehdi

Er Raqabi El Mehdi

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Hi, I am Mehdi. I am currently a Ph.D. Candidate in Operations Research at Polytechnique Montreal. So far, I have been learning and evolving in Five Countries on Five Continents.

Canada The Land of The Maple Leaf (>4 Years). I am a Ph.D. Candidate at the Mathematics and Industrial Engineering Department of Polytechnique Montreal (Poly) and the Groupe d’Études et de Recherche en Analyse des Décisions (Gerad), advised by Professors El Hallaoui Issmaïl & Soumis François. I specialize in large-scale optimization from several perspectives: solver (commercial, open-source, etc.), metaheuristics (local search, simulated annealing, etc.), exact (decompositions, branch-and-price, etc.), and learning (supervised, unsupervised, etc.). My Research is generously supported by the Fonds de Recherche du Québec - Nature et Technologie (FRQNT), the Institut de Valorisation des Données (IVADO), and the OCP Group.

Belgium The Land of The Battlefields (<1 Year). During 2024, I was a Visiting Scholar at the Faculty of Economics and Business of Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KU Leuven), advised by Professor Roel Leus. I worked on a primal variant of Benders decomposition for large-scale stochastic contexts.

Australia The Land of The Hopping Kangaroos (<1 Year). During 2023, I was a Visiting Scholar at the Business School of Griffith University (Griff), advised by Professor Yong Wu. I explored the intersection of Re-optimization (Operations Research) and Resilience (Management Science) for perturbed large-scale contexts such as supply chains.

Japan The Land of The Rising Sun (~2 Years). Prior to Poly, I obtained an MBA from the International University of Japan (IUJ), where I worked with Professor Li Wenkai on designing an electric vehicle migration framework. I was fortunate to obtain a specialization in finance, leveraging my engineering and business backgrounds. My MBA was generously supported by the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA).

Morocco The Kingdom of The Western Place (>20 Years). I also hold a master’s degree in industrial engineering from Ecole Mohammadia d’Ingénieurs (EMI).

My Curriculum Vitae can be found here.

News

  • 11/10/2024: Paper “Towards Resilience: Primal Large-scale Re-optimization” was accepted to Journal Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review.
  • 03/07/2024: Research Project “OCP Optimizes Its Supply Chain for Africa and The World” has been selected as a Winner at the EURO Excellence in Practice Award 2024.
  • 18/03/2024: Research Project “OCP Optimizes Its Supply Chain for Africa and The World” has been selected as a Finalist at the EURO Excellence in Practice Award 2024.
  • 08/02/2023: Talk “An Efficient Decomposition Matheuristic for the Unit Commitment Problem with Power Stability Constraints” at ORBEL38.
  • 05/02/2023: Visiting Scholar at KU Leuven, Belgium.
  • 08/12/2023: Talk “An Electric Vehicle Transitioning Framework for Public Fleet Planning” at International University of Japan.
  • 06/12/2023: Seminar “Meet a GERAD Researcher!”.
  • 09/11/2023: Industrial Engineering Seminar at Mohammadia School of Engineering.
  • 20/07/2023: Member within the IVADO Intersectorial Student Committee.
  • 30/06/2023: Paper “MPILS: An Automatic Tuner for MILP Solvers” was accepted to Journal Computers & Operations Research.
  • 20/06/2023: Internship at the Hydro-Québec Research Institute (IREQ).

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