Daniela Lubke

I received my Ph.D. degree in 2019 from the Systems Engineering and Computer Science Program at Federal University of Rio de Janeiro.

I came to the University of Waterloo to work on a project involving an industrial partner from the analytical services sector. Since June 2021, I have been a postdoctoral researcher at the Faculty of Mathematics, working under the supervision of Prof. Fukasawa from the department of Combinatorics and Optimization, and Prof. Sandoval from the department of Chemical Engineering. The main goal of our project is to help our partner solve the scheduling problem for large-scale industrial production.

My research aims to propose a new model to integrate the personnel allocation and machine scheduling problem for large-scale industrial production. These two optimization problems have been studied independently in the literature and, there are limited studies integrating both problems and presenting results for large-scale instances. I have been working with different optimization techniques applied to solve these real-world problems. My challenge is understanding the customer's problems and presenting a mathematical formulation to solve them.