Work with us! We encourage prospective PhD candidates, MSc and undergraduate students, and postdoctoral associates interested in our research to contact Dr Ruth Misener; please include a CV and a brief statement of interest.
Research Fellows
- Dr Jan Kronqvist, 2019 – 2021
- Funded by a Royal Society 2018 Newton International Fellowship. I collaborated with Dr Kronqvist and mentored him in developing his independent research career.
- Awarded Distinguished Paper Award, 2021 Conference on the Integration of Constraint Programming, Artificial Intelligence, & Operations Research (CPAIOR), Selected to present in Parliament as part of the 2021 STEM for Britain competition (video link)
- Now Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, KTH Royal Institute of Technology
- Dr Calvin Tsay, 2020 – 2022
- Funded by an EPSRC David Clarke Postdoctoral Fellowship and an Imperial College Research Fellowship. I mentored Dr Tsay in developing his independent research career.
- Awarded Distinguished Paper Award, 2021 Conference on the Integration of Constraint Programming, Artificial Intelligence, & Operations Research (CPAIOR), 2022 COIN-OR Cup as part of the OMLT team
- Now Lecturer, Department of Computing, Imperial College London
Postdoctoral Research Associates
- Dr Richard Oberdieck, 2015 – 2016
- Contributed to the UΨ^2 EPSRC project; Primary supervisor was Prof Stratos Pistikopoulos
- Now Technical Account Manager, Gurobi
- Dr Juan Campos Salazar, 2018 – 2020
- Funded by the GALINI EPSRC Project
- Dr Dimitrios Letsios, 2016 – 2019
- Funded by the UΨ^2 EPSRC project
- Awarded 2nd Prize for Presenters at the 2017 Department of Computing Research Associate Symposium, Best (Innovative) Demo at AAMAS 2020
- Now University Lecturer in the Department of Informatics, Kings College London
- Dr Kristijonas Cyras, 2017 – 2020
- Funded by the ROAD2H EPSRC Project, Primary supervisor was Prof Francesca Toni. I contributed to the optimisation side of Dr Cyras’ work.
- Awarded Best (Innovative) Demo at AAMAS 2020
- Now AI Researcher at Ericsson
- Dr Miten Mistry, 2020
- Funded by the ROAD2H EPSRC Project
- Now minimax labs
- Dr Chrysoula Kappatou, 2020 – 2023
- Funded by the EPSRC / Eli Lilly Prosperity Partnership
- Selected to participate in the 2021 MIT Rising Stars in Chemical Engineering programme
- Now Data Scientist at BASF
- Dr Ruby Sedgwick, 2023 – 2025
- Funded by the Wellcome Trust
- Now Research Scientist, Xyme
PhD Students
Imperial Department of Computing
- Dr Georgia Kouyialis, 2014 – 2018
- Title Symmetry and Degeneracy in Nonconvex Optimisation Problems: Application to Heat Recovery Networks
- Second supervisor was Dr Panos Parpas
- Funded by EPSRC Doctoral Training Account Studentship
- Awarded 3rd prize for 1st year PhD students in the 2015 Department of Computing Google Poster Competition, FOCAPO/CPC 2017 Travel Grant, Best Poster at PSE@ResearchDayUK 2017, 2nd Poster Prize at the 2017 CPSE Annual Industrial Consortium Meeting, 1st Poster Prize at the 2018 UK/Ireland Annual Meeting of the Society for Industrial & Applied Mathematics
- Now Senior Data Science Consultant at Dataiku
- Dr Radu Baltean-Lugojan, 2015 – 2019
- Title Exploiting Structure in Nonconvex Quadratic Optimisation
- Joint supervision with Dr Panos Parpas
- Funded by EPSRC Doctoral Training Account Studentship
- Awarded 2nd prize for 1st year PhD students in the 2016 departmental Google Poster Competition, 2017/18 IBM PhD Fellowship
- Now Quant Trader/Researcher at B2C2
- Dr Miten Mistry, 2015 – 2020
- Title Branching strategies for mixed-integer programs containing logical constraints and decomposable structure
- Funded by the HiPEDs EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training
- Awarded 2015 Donald Davies Memorial Prize for an excellent final-year MEng project
- Selected to present in Parliament as part of the 2019 STEM for Britain competition. Miten’s poster is here.
- Now minimax labs
- Dr Simon Olofsson, 2016 – 2020
- Title Gaussian Processes for Hybridisation of Analytical and Data-Driven Approaches for Design of Experiments
- Joint supervision with Dr Marc Deisenroth
- Funded by the ModLife Engineering Training Network
- Awarded Best Quality Poster for 2nd year PhD students in the 2018 Department of Computing Google Poster Competition
- Selected to present in Parliament as part of the 2019 STEM for Britain competition. Simon’s poster is here.
- Now Software Engineer at Facebook
- Dr Francesco Ceccon, 2016 – 2021
- Funded in relation to the GALINI EPSRC Project
- Awarded 2022 COIN-OR Cup as part of the OMLT team
- Now Co-Founder, Auclantis
- Dr Johannes Wiebe, 2017 – 2021
- Funded by the HiPEDs EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training
- Awarded 2nd Presentation Prize at PSE@ResearchDayUK 2018, 3rd Poster Prize at the 2019 CPSE Annual Industrial Consortium Meeting
- Now Flexciton
- Dr Alexander Thebelt, 2019 – 2023
- Funded by BASF
- Awarded 1st Poster Prize at the 2019 CPSE Annual Industrial Consortium Meeting, 2022 COIN-OR Cup as part of the OMLT team
- Now Machine Learning Engineer, QuantCo
- Dr Ruby Sedgwick, 2019 – 2023
- Funded by the EPSRC CDT AI4Health
- Awarded 3rd Poster Prize BioMedEng22
- Co-supervised with Prof Molly Stevens (Department of Materials) & Dr Mark van der Wilk (Department of Computing)
- Now Research Scientist, Xyme
- Dr Jose Pablo Folch, 2020 – 2024
- Funded by the EPSRC CDT StatML & BASF
- Awarded 2023 Best Paper, Computers & Chemical Engineering
- Co-Supervised with Dr Mark van der Wilk
- Now Chief Scientific Officer & Co-Founder, SOLVE
- Dr James Odgers, 2020 – 2025
- Funded by the EPSRC / Eli Lilly Prosperity Partnership
- Co-Supervised with Dr S Filippi (Department of Mathematics)
- Now Postdoc, Helmholtz Munich
Imperial Department of Chemical Engineering
- Dr María Fuentes Garí, 2011 – 2015
- Title Population Balance Model of the Leukaemia Cell Cycle for Optimising Chemotherapy Treatments
- Supervisors: Prof Sakis Mantalaris and Prof Stratos Pistikopoulos. Our collaboration was on Capturing Cell Cycle Heterogeneity using a Hybrid Experimental/Computational Approach
- Awarded 2nd prize in the Nobuyuki Idei Award for the iPhone application HemocyTap
- Now Senior Consultant at Process Systems Enterprise
- Dr Symeon Savvopoulos, 2013 – 2018
- Title Mathematical Modelling of Chronic Lymphocytic Leukaemia
- Supervisors: Prof Sakis Mantalaris and Prof Stratos Pistikopoulos. Our collaboration was on Modelling Disease Trajectories for Chronic Lymphocytic Leukaemia
- Now Senior Research Associate at Khalifa University
Masters & Final Year UG Project Students
Imperial Department of Computing
- Miten Mistry, MEng, 2014 – 2015
- Increasing Energy Efficiency in Industrial Plants: Optimising Heat Exchanger Networks; Second supervisor: Dr Panos Parpas
- Awarded 2015 Donald Davies Memorial Prize for an excellent final-year MEng project
- Thesis published in Computers & Chemical Engineering
- Balarabe Ogbeha, BEng, 2014 – 2015
- Detecting Symmetry in Mixed-Integer Nonlinear Optimisation; Second supervisor: Dr Panos Parpas
- Francesco Ceccon, MSc, 2015
- Optimising Energy Systems: Deducing Network Topology; collaboration with Dr Akshay Gupte
- Thesis published in AIChE Journal
- Jiaying Li, MSc, 2015
- Detecting Symmetry in Mixed-Integer Nonlinear Optimisation
- Doniyor Ulmasov, MSc, 2015
- Bayesian Framework for Microalgae Optimisation; joint with Dr Marc Deisenroth. Collaboration with Dr Benoit Chachuat and Dr Caroline Baroukh.
- Thesis published at ESCAPE
- Chia (Joel) Choo, MRes Project, 2015
- Solving the Quadratic Assignment Problem using Quantum Computing; joint with Dr Luigi Nardi and Prof Paul Kelly
- Melinda Chan, MSc, 2016
- Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Windows: Optimisation of delivery routes with unique volume constraints
- Karlson Lee, MSc, 2016
- Mixed integer optimisation for interplanetary space travel; Joint with Dr Aldo Faisal
- Pierre Thary, MSc, 2016
- Solving analytical optimisation problems with black-box functions embedded
- Jakub Grzegorek, MEng, 2016 – 2017
- Solving Vehicle Routing Problem with Genetic Algorithms
- Chase Hellemans, MEng, 2016 – 2017
- Learning Optimal Bayesian Networks from Data
- Pingchuan Ma, MSc Independent Study Option, 2017
- Mixed Integer Nonlinear Optimisation
- Christian Wesselhoeft, MSc Independent Study Option & MSc thesis, 2017
- Mixed-integer PDE-constrained optimisation; Joint with Dr David Ham
- Awarded Winton Capital Applied Computing MSc Project Prize for an excellent thesis
- Thesis published at PSE
- Anna Collins, Undergraduate Research Opportunities Programme, 2017
- Optimisation & Argumentation for Personalised Health Care; Associated with the ROAD2H project
- Julius Hense, Undergraduate Project 2017 – 2018
- An Open Source Mixed-Integer Nonlinear Optimisation Solver
- Tasha Page, MSc 2018
- Vehicle optimisation in Royal Mail delivery offices; Joint with the Royal Mail Data Science Group
- Awarded Runner up May Hicks Award 2019 from the Operational Research Society
- Michael Radigan, MEng 2017 – 2018
- Detecting Symmetry in Mixed-Integer Nonlinear Optimisation
- Sarah Wang, MSc 2018
- Detecting Symmetry in Mixed-Integer Nonlinear Optimisation
- Shudian Zhao, MSc 2018
- Optimisation with Gradient Boosted Trees; Joint with Miten Mistry
- Suraj G, MEng 2018 – 2019
- A Practical Analysis of Optimisation and Recovery Under Uncertainty
- Awarded NewVoice Media Prize for Computing for an excellent thesis
- Chun (Nick) Li, BEng 2018 – 2019
- Extending GALINI through Visualizing Global Optimization and Diagnosing Symmetry
- Abigail Annkah, MSc, African Institute for Mathematical Sciences, 2019
- Application Of Image Analysis To Advanced Complex Microbial Images; Joint supervisor: Dr Eirini Velliou
Imperial Department of Chemical Engineering
- Habib Adebisi Abubakar, MSc, 2013 – 2014
- Managing Disparate Numerical Scales in Global Optimisation; Joint supervisor: Prof Claire Adjiman
- Nikolaos Stefanopoulos, MSc, 2013 – 2014
- Cell Cycle Modelling of In Vitro MEC-1 Cultures for Studying B-CLL; Joint supervisors: Prof Sakis Mantalaris and Prof Stratos Pistikopoulos