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I am not currently
expanding my research group and may consider students that meet the
following criteria:
- interests and background
relevant to my active research areas
- previous degree in
engineering (or computer science in exceptional cases)
- high
academic standing
- strong English-language
skills (both written and spoken)
- this is very
important because I expect you to take a significant role in
preparing publications and other manuscripts documenting our research,
and expect you to be able to coherently present our work at
conferences
- fast learner
- willingness
to apply for all available scholarship and other funding
opportunities
Prior knowledge or experience in
some of the following areas isn't strictly required but would be a
definite asset:
- optimization
and operations research
- networking and
telecommunications
- railway operations
- reliability
& availability and decision sciences
- graph theory
- Python
and/or C/C++
- CPLEX
and/or Gurobi Optimizer solvers and AMPL
mathematical programming language
Funding is available for top
students only. NSERC
scholars or holders of other major scholarships (e.g., Alberta
Ingenuity) or those with an academic standing sufficient for attracting
such a scholarship are particularly sought after. I will provide
guidance as needed to assist your application to those scholarships.
Reasons to join my research group:
- a dynamic and
multi-disciplinary research program
- an exciting and in-demand
area of study
- opportunity
to publish work (publication is encouraged)
- work on industrially-relevant
research topics (most of the research program is driven by or
inspired by industry contacts)
- potential interaction with
industry partners (two of my current students spend several
days per week on-site with one of our railway research sponsors)
- a combined technical and
management-related program is available (as is a purely technical
program)
Depending on your background and
interests and on the specific project you work on, possible career
paths for graduates include:
- optimization
and operations research
- network design
- engineering
management
- telecommunications
- railway operations
- resource planning
- software development
- R&D
- ICT
- academia
If you have an interest in joining
my research group, please contact me via email. I generally do not return phone calls, and
will not respond to generic emails from prospective students with
minimal fit to my research interests. Be sure to include a resume (CV),
a scanned copy of your transcript (an unofficial one is fine), a list
of publications and presentations, and a brief description of your
background and research interests. If it isn't clear from your CV and
background how you would be a good fit to my group, please also include
a brief discussion in this regard as well.
Note that due to the high number of
applicants, I cannot respond to all applicants.
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