Welcome! I am the holder of the Canada Research Chair in Supply Chain Analytics, a professor in the Department of Logistics and Operations Management at HEC Montréal, and an adjunct professor in the Department of Computer Science and Operations Research at Université de Montréal. I am also a scientific advisor in AI at IVADO Labs, and I have been a scientific consultant at JDA (now Blue Yonder) and a scientific fellow at Element AI (now ServiceNow). I actively collaborate with international companies and serve as an advisor for several startups in applied ML/AI, analytics and supply chains.

Before joining HEC Montréal, I was a postdoctoral associate at MIT in the SMART research unit, a visiting postdoc at the Operations Research Center and LIDS, and subsequently a data scientist at JDA.

Research interests

My research focuses on, but is not limited to:

• Supply chain and retail analytics, e.g. demand forecasting, inventory optimization, online fulfillment, transportation and routing, resilient network design, integrated planning, material requirements planning (MRP) and distribution resource planning (DRP)
• Data-driven optimization under uncertainty and large-scale optimization, e.g. stochastic programming, robust and distributionally robust optimization, Benders decomposition, column generation, branch-and-cut and branch-and-price
• Machine learning and AI for decision-making, e.g. reinforcement learning, Markov decision processes, learning for optimization, and applied ML/AI in supply chains and business

Industry collaboration

I actively work with companies on supply chain and business analytics/AI & optimization problems. Collaborations range from scientific advisory roles and focused projects to research partnerships, which can be co-funded through programs such as Mitacs and NSERC Alliance. Examples of work from industrial collaborations include machine-learning aftermarket demand forecasting with Bombardier, supply chain simulation at Princess Auto, robot scheduling in an automated kitchen, demand sensing at a Canadian retailer and EV charging-station location with Hydro-Québec; more are on the publications page.

Research funding

My research is supported by grants from NSERC, SSHRC, IVADO, Prompt, Mitacs and HEC Montréal, as well as industrial funds.