Bissan Ghaddar

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Bissan Ghaddar

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Bissan Ghaddar

Biography summary

Bissan Ghaddar is an Assistant Professor in Data Analytics and Operations Research at the University of Waterloo working on problems at the intersection of smart cities, IoT, data analytics, and mathematical modeling and optimization for large-scale problems. Prior to joining the University of Waterloo, she worked on energy and transportation network optimization at IBM Research Dublin and on inventory management problems at the Centre for Operational Research and Analysis, Department of National Defence Canada. She was also invited for extended research visits at the Universität zu Köln in Germany and the University of Avignon in France. Dr. Ghaddar received a Ph.D. degree in operations research from the University of Waterloo, Canada. Her research has been supported by prestigious national and international scholarships and in 2012 she was awarded an FP7 IIF European Union Grant.

Research interests

  • non-linear programming
  • semidefinite programming
  • optimization
  • data analytics
  • smart grid
  • smart mobility

Education

  • 2011, Doctorate, Operations Research, University of Waterloo
  • 2007, Master of Applied Science, Operations Research, University of Waterloo

Selected/recent publications

  • Ghaddar, Bissan and Sakr, Nizar and Asiedu, Yaw, Spare parts stocking analysis using genetic programming, European Journal of Operational Research, 252(1), 2016, 136 - 144
  • Ghaddar, Bissan and Marecek, Jakub and Mevissen, Martin, Optimal power flow as a polynomial optimization problem, IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, 31(1), 2016, 539 - 546
  • Ghaddar, Bissan and Vera, Juan C and Anjos, Miguel F, A dynamic inequality generation scheme for polynomial programming, Mathematical Programming, 156(1-2), 2016, 21 - 57
  • Ghaddar, Bissan and Naoum-Sawaya, Joe and Kishimoto, Akihiro and Taheri, Nicole and Eck, Bradley, A Lagrangian decomposition approach for the pump scheduling problem in water networks, European Journal of Operational Research, 241(2), 2015, 490 - 501
  • Naoum-Sawaya, Joe and Ghaddar, Bissan and Arandia, Ernesto and Eck, Bradley, Simulation-optimization approaches for water pump scheduling and pipe replacement problems, European Journal of Operational Research, 246(1), 2015, 293 - 306

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