Research Interests: Operations Research, Large-scale Optimization, Data Science, Machine Learning for Operations Research, Metaheuristics, Algorithm Configuration, Solvers
Published & Under Review
- Authors: Er Raqabi El Mehdi, Himmich Ilyas, El Hachemi Nizar, El Hallaoui Issmaïl and Soumis François
- Deployed by our industry collaborator OCP Group, estimated impact of 5% in incremental turnover annually
- Part of the Project “OCP Optimizes its Supply Chain for Africa”
- Published in Omega, 2023
2. MPILS: An Automatic Tuner for MILP Solvers
- Authors: Himmich Ilyas∗, Er Raqabi El Mehdi∗, El Hachemi Nizar, El Hallaoui Issmaïl, Metrane Abdelmoutalib and Soumis François
- Deployed by our industry collaborator OCP Group, estimated impact of 5% in incremental turnover annually
- Part of the Project “OCP Optimizes its Supply Chain for Africa”
- Published in Computers & Operations Research, 2023
3. An Electric Vehicle Transitioning Framework for Public Fleet Planning
- Authors: Er Raqabi El Mehdi and Li Wenkai
- Published in Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment, 2023
4. OCP Optimizes its Supply Chain for Africa
- Authors: Er Raqabi El Mehdi, Beljadid Ahmed, Mohammed Ali Bennouna, Rania Bennouna, Latifa Boussaadi, Nizar El Hachemi, Issmail El Hallaoui, Michel Fender, Anouar Jamali, Nabil Si Hammou and François Soumis
- Deployed by our industry collaborator OCP Group, estimated impact of 5% in incremental turnover annually
- Finalist at the EURO Excellence in Practice Award 2024
- Finalist at the IFORS Prize for OR in Development 2023
- Major Revision in INFORMS Journal on Applied Analytics
5. The Primal Benders Decomposition
- Authors: Er Raqabi El Mehdi, El Hallaoui Issmaïl and Soumis François
- Part of the Project “OCP Optimizes its Supply Chain for Africa”
- Under Review
6. Towards Resilience: Primal Large-scale Re-optimization
- Authors: Er Raqabi El Mehdi, Wu Yong, El Hallaoui Issmaïl and Soumis François
- Part of the Project “OCP Optimizes its Supply Chain for Africa”
- Under Review
- Authors: Bani Abderrahman, Er Raqabi El Mehdi, El Hallaoui Issmaïl and Corréa Ayoub Insa
- Under Review
8. The Petrol Station Replenishment Problem: A Case Study from West Africa
- Authors: Bani Abderrahman, Er Raqabi El Mehdi, El Hallaoui Issmaïl and Corréa Ayoub Insa
- Under Review
9. Design of Electric Vehicles Charging Station Network
- Authors: Er Raqabi El Mehdi
- Master’s Thesis, International University of Japan, 2019
Working Papers
10. An Efficient Decomposition Matheuristic for the Transient Stability Constrained Unit Commitment at Hydro-Quebec
- Authors: Er Raqabi El Mehdi, Bani Abderrahman, Morabit Mouad, Blondin Alexandre, Besner Alexandre, Fournier Julien and El Hallaoui Issmaïl
11. The Primal L-shaped Method using the Primal Simplex Decomposition
- Authors: Er Raqabi El Mehdi, El Fassi Mohamed, Leus Roel and El Hallaoui Issmaïl
(*: Equal Contribution)