Research team

Students and researchers (last update July 2026).

Current students, researchers and postdocs

Postdoctoral researchers

• Yuanyuan Li (Sep 2025 – present), co-advised with E. Frejinger and J.-F. Cordeau.
• Xiaoxu Chen (Sep 2025 – present), co-advised with J.-F. Cordeau.
• Nagisa Sugishita (Mar 2025 – present), co-advised with M. Carvalho and O. Arslan.
• David Pinzon (Mar 2025 – present), co-advised with M. Carvalho and O. Arslan.
• Nima Akbarzadeh (May 2023 – present), co-advised with E. Delage.

Ph.D. students

• Nolan Kassie (HEC Montréal, Aug 2026 – present), co-advised with J.-F. Cordeau.
• Jai Kumar Drave (HEC Montréal, Sep 2024 – present), co-advised with R. Jans.
• Xiaoyue Zhu (HEC Montréal, Sep 2023 – present), co-advised with W. Xia.
• Xiaohui Tu (HEC Montréal, Sep 2022 – present), co-advised with E. Delage.
• Saeede Hosseini (Polytechnique Montréal, Sep 2021 – present), co-advised with L.-M. Rousseau.

M.Sc. students

• Enrico Basili (HEC Montréal, May 2026 – present).

Former students, researchers and postdocs

Postdoctoral researchers

• David Tremblet (Jan 2025 – Jun 2026), co-advised with R. Jans and S. Rohmer. Position after: faculty at École des Mines de Saint-Étienne.
• Weiquan Wang (Jun 2023 – Jun 2026), co-advised with J.-F. Cordeau and O. Arslan. Position after: postdoc at Université Laval.
• Linchuan Wei (Sep 2024 – May 2025), co-advised with E. Frejinger. Position after: faculty at The Chinese University of Hong Kong.
• Fuliang Wu (Jan 2023 – Dec 2024), co-advised with J.-F. Cordeau. Position after: faculty at Sun Yat-sen University.
• Shabnam Mahmoudzadeh Vaziri (Sep 2024 – Dec 2024), co-advised with M. Carvalho and O. Arslan. Position after: data scientist at Air Canada.
• Farzad Avishan (Oct 2023 – Dec 2024), co-advised with J.-F. Cordeau and O. Arslan. Position after: data scientist at Air Canada.
• Milad Elyasi (Oct 2023 – Aug 2024), co-advised with J.-F. Cordeau and O. Arslan. Position after: faculty at Ozyegin University.
• Said Rahal (Jun 2021 – Dec 2022), co-advised with J.-F. Cordeau and O. Arslan. Position after: research fellow.
• Lingxiao Wu (Feb 2021 – Nov 2022), co-advised with J.-F. Cordeau. Position after: faculty at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University.
• Ramesh Ramasamy Pandi (Jan 2021 – Nov 2022), co-advised with J.-F. Cordeau and L.-M. Rousseau. Position after: research scientist at Amazon.
• Mark Poon Ben Ben (Jan 2021 – Dec 2021), co-advised with J.-F. Cordeau. Position after: research scientist at Amazon.
• Karim Perez (Jun 2018 – Aug 2021), co-advised with R. Jans. Position after: data scientist at ExPretio.
• Simon Belieres (Jan 2020 – Aug 2021), co-advised with J.-F. Cordeau. Position after: faculty at Toulouse Business School.
• Mostafa Darwiche (Mar 2020 – Dec 2020), co-advised with L.-M. Rousseau and J. Mendoza. Position after: start-up.
• Amira Dems (2017 – 2019), co-advised with J.-F. Cordeau. Position after: researcher at Hydro-Québec research institute (IREQ).
• Simon Thevenin (2017 – 2018), co-advised with J.-F. Cordeau. Position after: faculty at IMT Atlantique.

Ph.D. students

• Mehdi Ghaniabadi (HEC Montréal, Jan 2019 – Apr 2024), co-advised with R. Jans. Position after: scientist at a software company.
• Duy Tan Nguyen (HEC Montréal, Sep 2018 – Dec 2023), co-advised with J.-F. Cordeau. Position after: faculty at University of Greenwich.
• Mahdis Bayani (Polytechnique Montréal, Jan 2018 – Aug 2023), co-advised with L.-M. Rousseau. Position after: data scientist at Energy Modelling Hub.
• Paula Metzker Soares (IMT Atlantique, Sep 2019 – Nov 2022), co-advised with S. Thevenin and A. Dolgui. Position after: postdoc at HEC Montréal, now faculty at Université Bretagne Sud.
• Narges Sereshti (HEC Montréal, Sep 2016 – Sep 2022), co-advised with R. Jans. Position after: data scientist at Air Canada.
• Chun Cheng (Polytechnique Montréal, Sep 2017 – Sep 2020), co-advised with L.-M. Rousseau. Position after: faculty at Dongbei University of Finance and Economics.

Visiting researchers and Ph.D. interns

• Entai Wang, visiting Ph.D. student (Beijing Jiaotong University, Jun 2024 – Dec 2025), co-advised with J.-F. Cordeau.
• Jaike van Twiller, visiting Ph.D. student (IT University of Copenhagen, Jan 2024 – May 2024), co-advised with E. Delage and R. M. Jensen.
• Aura Jalal, visiting Ph.D. student (Universidade Federal de São Carlos, Sep 2020 – Jan 2022), co-advised with R. Jans. Position after: postdoc at HEC Montréal.
• Yu Qinxiao, visiting Ph.D. student (Tianjin University, Sep 2018 – Oct 2019), co-advised with L.-M. Rousseau. Position after: faculty at Civil Aviation University of China.
• Maaike Hoogeboom, visiting Ph.D. student (VU Amsterdam, visiting MIT, Feb 2018 – May 2018), co-advised with P. Jaillet and W. E. H. Dullaert. Position after: data scientist at Achmea.
• Arthur Maheo, visiting Ph.D. student (Australian National University, Aug 2016 – Dec 2016), co-advised with J.-F. Cordeau. Position after: postdoc at Monash University, now researcher at Amazon.
• Karim Perez, visiting Ph.D. student (Federal University of São Carlos, Mar 2016 – Apr 2017), co-advised with R. Jans. Then a postdoc in the group.
• Thierry Moisan, Ph.D. research intern (JDA Labs, Jan 2015 – May 2015). Position after: data scientist at ServiceNow.
• Lin Zhu, visiting professor (Oct 2019 – Dec 2020), co-advised with L.-M. Rousseau. Position after: faculty at Shanghai Maritime University.

M.Sc. theses

• Jai Kumar Drave (HEC Montréal, Aug 2024), co-advised with O. Arslan.
• Jayanti Mishra (HEC Montréal, Jan 2023), co-advised with W. Xia.
• Eva Terriault (Polytechnique Montréal, Dec 2022), co-advised with L.-M. Rousseau.
• Feras Al-Basha (HEC Montréal, Apr 2021), co-advised with L. Charlin.
• Lotfi Chikh (HEC Montréal, Apr 2020), co-advised with V. Bélanger.
• David Suissa (HEC Montréal, Jun 2019), co-advised with O. Jabali.
• Shuanghao Shi (HEC Montréal, Dec 2017).
• Jiajun Shao (HEC Montréal, Dec 2017).

M.Sc. projects

HEC Montréal unless noted.

• Yuxuan Du (May 2025 – Dec 2025).
• Olivia Gillard (Sep 2025 – Dec 2025).
• Xinjun Ye (Sep 2023 – Dec 2025), co-advised with W. Xia.
• Hongrui Yue (Sep 2024 – Apr 2025), co-advised with E. Frejinger.
• Andrea Luciano (May 2024 – Dec 2024).
• Aviral Sharma (Sep 2023 – Apr 2024).
• Ashish Bhaskaran Pillai (Sep 2023 – Apr 2024).
• Kush Sharma (Jan 2023 – Aug 2023).
• Vikas Bille (Sep 2022 – Apr 2023).
• Rohit Deshmukh (May 2022 – Dec 2022).
• Yash Patel (May 2022 – Dec 2022).
• Zihe Zhou (May 2022 – Dec 2022).
• Diane Domanec (May 2022 – Dec 2022).
• Sachin Abraham Varghese (Jan 2022 – Aug 2022), co-advised with R. Jans.
• Mohamad-Hossein Farahi (Sep 2021 – Apr 2022).
• Karissa Ronci (Sep 2021 – Apr 2022).
• Biswajit Sahoo (Sep 2021 – Apr 2022).
• Farzad Esmaeili (May 2021 – Dec 2021), co-advised with R. Jans.
• Alexis Raedemaecker (Sep 2020 – Apr 2021).
• Renaldo Hermawan (May 2020 – Dec 2020).
• Chia-Chia Wu (May 2020 – Apr 2021).
• Daheng Liu (Jan 2020 – Aug 2020).
• Jing Guo (Sep 2019 – Apr 2020), co-advised with R. Jans.
• Xinyan Dong (Sep 2019 – Apr 2020).
• Zhaoyue Su (Sep 2019 – Apr 2020).
• Ted Kong (May 2019 – Dec 2019), co-advised with J.-F. Cordeau.
• Xiaohui Tu (May 2019 – Dec 2019), co-advised with J.-F. Cordeau.
• Jia-Hui Feng (May 2019 – Dec 2019).
• Hai-Yang Bao (Jan 2019 – Aug 2019).
• Jieying Kong (Jan 2019 – Aug 2019).
• Niyati Deshmukh (Jan 2019 – Aug 2019).
• Phan Thuy Dung Nguyen (IMT Atlantique, Jan 2019 – Aug 2019), co-advised with S. Thevenin and A. Dolgui.
• Mayukh Bhat (Sep 2018 – May 2019).
• Hoa Nguyen (Sep 2018 – May 2019).
• Zibo Wang (Sep 2018 – May 2019).
• Aaron-John-Teong-Yue Teo (Sep 2018 – May 2019).
• Haomin Chen (May 2018 – Dec 2018).
• Gabriel Tremblay (May 2018 – Dec 2018).
• Linghan Zhu (May 2018 – Aug 2018), co-advised with R. Jans.
• Asieh Haeri (Sep 2017 – May 2018), co-advised with J.-F. Cordeau.
• Juliana Bodo (Sep 2017 – May 2018), co-advised with V. Bélanger.
• Shilpa Rawat (Sep 2017 – May 2018), co-advised with R. Jans.
• Chao Zhao (May 2017 – Jan 2018), co-advised with M.-È. Rancourt.
• David Sanchez-Fernandez (May 2017 – Dec 2017), co-advised with R. Jans.
• Alex Delise (May 2017 – Dec 2017), co-advised with R. Jans.
• Duy Tan Nguyen (May 2017 – Nov 2017), co-advised with S. Landry.
• Vincent Zou (Maastricht University, visiting, Sep 2015 – Dec 2015).
• Zoë Kik (Maastricht University, visiting, Sep 2015 – Dec 2015).

Research interns

• Jitsama Tanlamai (Mahidol University; intern at McGill, Mar 2020 – Feb 2021), co-advised with W. Khern-am-nuai.
• Jiefeng Fang (École Polytechnique, France, Apr 2018 – Aug 2018), co-advised with L.-M. Rousseau.
• Ta Duy Nguyen (École Polytechnique and NUS, Apr 2017 – Aug 2017), co-advised with L.-M. Rousseau.
• Michel Deudon (École Polytechnique, France, Apr 2017 – Aug 2017), co-advised with L.-M. Rousseau.
• Pierre Cournut (École Polytechnique, France, Apr 2017 – Aug 2017), co-advised with L.-M. Rousseau.
• Yu Jia Cheong (École Polytechnique and NUS, Apr 2017 – Aug 2017), co-advised with L.-M. Rousseau.
• Yee Sian Ng (SMART, MIT, Aug 2013 – Dec 2013), co-advised with P. Jaillet and M. Sim. Position after: software engineer at Google.