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 Assistant
Imperial Department of Computing
- Dr Richard Oberdieck, 2015 – 2016
- Contributed to the UΨ^2 EPSRC project; Primary supervisor was Prof Stratos Pistikopoulos
- Now Numerical Specialist at Ørsted A/S
PhD Students
- 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
- Awarded FOCAPO/CPC 2017 Travel Grant
- Awarded Best Poster at PSE@ResearchDayUK 2017
- Awarded 2nd Poster Prize at the 2017 CPSE Annual Industrial Consortium Meeting
- Awarded 1st Poster Prize at the 2018 UK/Ireland Annual Meeting of the Society for Industrial & Applied Mathematics
- Now at Schlumberger Cambridge Research
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 Postdoctoral Associate at KU Leuven
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
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