Operations Research & Decision Systems Research Center (ORDeS)
Tarantilis Christos
Professor
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Dr. Christos D. Tarantilis is Professor and the Head of the Department of Management Science & Technology of the Athens University of Economics and Business. He received his 4-year Undergraduate Degree in Mathematics from the University of Patras - Greece (first in graduation) and his M.Sc. in Operational Research from London School of Economics - UK. He was also a Graduate Research Assistant at the National Technical University of Athens - Greece, where he received his Ph.D. in Operations Research and Logistics.
Prof. Tarantilis research interests lie in the area of optimization and decision making techniques for
- Operations Research (combinatorial optimization and integer programming, evolutionary algorithms and computational Intelligence, heuristics, exact algorithms, matheuristics)
- Transportation Planning (vehicle routing and scheduling, pickup and delivery systems, dial-a-ride and health care transportation systems, intermodal transportation)
- Logistics and Operations Management (production planning and inventory control, production scheduling, location and layout models, packing logistics, warehouse logistics, city logistics, port logistics)
- Green Supply Chain Management (recycling and waste operations management, environmental footprint and supply chains, fuel-efficient transportation systems)
He mainly works on the design, development and application of mathematical models, operations research techniques and computationally efficient algorithms to enable the use of Decision Support Systems.
He has more than 120 scientific papers in international academic journals (INFORMS, Willey, IEEE, Elsevier), books and conferences, including more than 50 journal papers in Web of Science-indexed journals. Some of his work is used as instruction material in academic programs of N. America and Europe, while his algorithms for the solution of large-scale problems in transportation and logistics have been internationally acclaimed.
Prof. Tarantilis has served as chairman, member of scientific and organizing committees in international and national scientific conferences as well as guest editor in well-known academic journals. He is also on the review and editorial board of several academic journals. Furthermore, Prof. Tarantilis has been acting as leader and senior researcher in a number of national and EU projects related to transportation planning, supply chain management, green logistics and waste management.
Prof. Tarantilis has been sixteen (16) times the recipient of the "Best Teaching Faculty Award" of his undergraduate and postgraduate/MBA courses.
Zachariadis Emmanouil
Associate Professor
Emmanouil Zachariadis is an Associate Professor of Management Science & Quantitative Methods at the Athens University of Economics and Business, School of Business, Department of Management Science and Technology. He has received a Diploma in Chemical Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), and an MSc in Computing Science from the Imperial College of London. His doctoral studies aimed at solving operational research problems via computational optimization methods and were carried out at the School of Chemical Engineering of NTUA.
His research interests focus on: (a) Development of mathematical programming models and computational optimization methods for operational research problems; (b) Management of transportation networks, freight transportation & distribution logistics systems, (c) Production and service operations management, and (d) Study and minimization of the environmental impact of transportation logistics. His publication record includes 26 articles in top quality journals in the fields of Management Science, Operations Research, and Supply Chain Management and has significant research impact (over 1200 citations in Scopus, June 2024). He has successfully participated in several European and National research projects on the above-mentioned scientific fields. His teaching experience involves both undergraduate and postgraduate courses in the areas of quantitative methods, operational research, and supply chain optimization. He has been awarded with the teaching excellence awards both for undergraduate (Optimization Methods in Management Science, Dept. of Management Science & Technology AUEB, Ac. Year 2021-22), and postgraduate courses (Large Scale Optimization, MSc in Business Analytics AUEB, Ac. Years 2020-21, 2021-22, 2022-23)
Manousakis Eleftherios
Post-Doctoral Researcher
Eleftherios G. Manousakis holds a Ph.D. in Operations Research from the Operations Research & Decision Systems (ORDeS) center at the Athens University of Economics and Business (AUEB), School of Business, Department of Management Science and Technology (DMST), Athens, Greece (2021). In 2016, he acquired his B.Sc. degree in Management Science from DMST, AUEB (graduated third). He holds an MSc in Computer Science with specialization in Machine Learning (with distinction) from the University of Edinburgh (2017), Edinburgh, Scotland, UK. He has short teaching experience in Microeconomics and Macroeconomics at undergraduate level and in MSc in Business Analytics postgraduate program in DMST.
He has been a research assistant in Transportation Systems and Logistics Laboratory (TRANSLOG) in AUEB and in Hellenic Ministry of Development and Competitiveness. His main practical research interests are quantitative decision-making in supply chain management, inventory and production management, freight transportation and logistics in routing and scheduling problems. His Ph.D. aims in development of: (a) innovative mathematical programming models for realistic operational research problems and (b) computational/artificial intelligence optimization methods for large scale optimization problems. His main fields of academic interest are Operations Research, Machine Learning and the recent promising intersection of the two.
He has participated in several national and international conferences such as European Conference on Operational Research, Production and Operations Management Society, etc. His work has been published in high-level journals of the operations research field (e.g., European Journal of Operations Research) and received a high number of citations. He has also participated in academic and corporate research projects on the areas of interest.
