Laurent Alfandari

Education

International Teachers Program (ITP) 2010, Kellogg School of Management Doctorate in Operations Research, Paris-Dauphine University Master of Research in Management Science, Paris-Dauphine University ESSEC Grande Ecole (M.Sc in Management) Bachelor in Mathematics & Social Sciences, Paris-Dauphine University

Biography

Laurent Alfandari is a Full Professor at ESSEC Business School, in the Information Systems, Decision Sciences and Statistics (IDS) Department. His research field is Operations Research and Decision analytics. He published book chapters and articles in international journals such as the European Journal of Operational Research, Annals of Operations Research, Computers and Operations Research, Discrete Applied Mathematics, Journal of Scheduling, Transportation Science. He teaches Decision Analytics and Operations Research courses in various ESSEC Business School programs (Grande Ecole Master in Management, Executive MBA, Executive Education SCM programs, PhD). He was also the Academic Director of the ESSEC specialized master in Logistics and Supply Chain Management. He carried out consulting studies and industrial contracts for SNCF, Babcock-Wanson, ESSEC BS, Aid-Impact. He was a member of the research team ranked #4 for the ROADEF-EURO international Challenge proposed by EDF in 2010, and also participated to the 2012 Google Challenge. He was Vice-President of the French Society of Operations Research & Decision-Aid (ROADEF) from 2012 to 2015.

Research Areas

Areas

Operations Research,
Combinatorial Optimization, Mathematical Programming Applications : Supply Chain Management, Transportation and Logistics, Production planning, Facility location, Network design, Demand coverage

On-going Projects

- Hub location with discrete cost functions, with M. Keshvari Fard - Robust location of new housings developments using a choice model, with J.C. Espinoza - Robust Optimization for Non-linear impact of data variation, with J.C. Espinoza - Robust location of mobile vendors on a first come first served basis, with J.C. Espinoza
- Optimal facility in-network selection for healthcare payers under reference pricing and parameter uncertainty, with V. Denoyel and A. Thiele
-Solving Utility-maximization MNL choice models: is the First-Choice heuristic a good approximation?, with V. Denoyel and A. Thiele
- Variable Neighborhood Search (VNS) for Nested-Multinomial Logit-based optimization problems, with V. Denoyel and A. Thiele - Tighter MIP formulations for the Barge Container Ship Problem, with D. Damjanovic, F. Furini, I. Ljubic, M. Maras, S. Martin
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A Branch-and-Price algorithm for the Multi-commodity Ring Vehicle Routing Problem, with P. Gianessi, L. Letocart, R. Wolfler-Calvo - Offering diverse tours to tourists : a column genration approach, with Y. Zhao

Teaching at ESSEC

Operations Research Operations Management Decision Analytics Business Mathematics

Other Teaching Activities

Participation to a Coursera MOOC on Complexity in Decision-Making (2015) Chair of IDS Department
(2012-2014) Academic Director of ESSEC Specialized Master in Logistics and SCM (2009-2011) Academic Supervisor of the Bachelor period of ESSEC Grande Ecole / MSc (2006-2008)