Optimization and Operational Research Alumni

Here is a selection of our Alumni who have kindly given permission for us to include their PhD thesis on our website. The authors retain their copyright to the PhD theses posted here. Any use made of their work must be acknowledged.

Ghussoun Al-Jeiroudi, Supervisor: Professor J. Gondzio

On Inexact Newton Directions in Interior Point Methods for Linear Optimization (2009) (440.01 KB PDF)

Waqquas Bukhsh, Supervisor: Professor K. McKinnon

An Islanding Model for Preventing Wide-Area Blackouts and the Issue of Local Solutions of the Optimal Power Flow Problem (2014) (1.95 MB PDF)

Hanyi Chen, Supervisor: Dr. B. Buke

Probabilistic Matching Systems: Stability, Fluid and Diffusion Approximations and Optimal Control (2015) (1.13 MB PDF)

Nai-Yuan Chiang, Supervisor: Dr. A. Grothey

Structure-Exploiting Interior Point Methods for Security Constrained Optimal Power Flow Problems (2013) (933.71 KB PDF)

Marco Colombo, Supervisor: Professor J. Gondzio

Advances in Interior Point Methods for Large-Scale Linear Programming (2007) (675.62 KB PDF)

Kimon Fountoulakis, Supervisor: Professor J. Gondzio

Higher-Order Methods for Large-Scale Optimization (2015) (3.52 MB PDF)

Pablo González Brevis, Supervisor: Professor J. Gondzio.

Advances in Interior Point Methods and Column Generation (2013) (1.06 MB PDF)

Daniel Hamilton, Supervisor: Professor K. McKinnon

Decomposition and Diet Problems (2009) (11.82 MB PDF)

Jonathan Hogg, Supervisor: Dr. J. Hall

High Performance Cholesky and Symmetric Indefinite Factorizations with Applications (2010) (1.11 MB PDF)

Qi Huangfu, Supervisor: Dr. J. Hall

High performance simplex solver (2013) (682.42 KB PDF)

Natalia Issaeva, Supervisor: Professor K. McKinnon

Quantifying the system balancing cost when wind energy is incorporated into electricity generation system (2009) (1.14 MB PDF)

Feng Qiang, Supervisor: Dr A. Grothey

Parallel Problem Generation for Structured Problems in Mathematical Programming (2015) (1.13 MB PDF)

Tim Schulze, Supervisor: Professor K. McKinnon

Stochastic Programming for Hydro-Thermal Unit Commitment (2015) (1.21 MB PDF)

Martin Takác, Supervisor: Dr. P. Richtárik

Randomized Coordinate Descent Methods for Big Data Optimization (2014) (2.23 MB PDF)

Kristian Woodsend, Supervisor: Professor J. Gondzio

Using Interior Point Methods for Large-scale Support Vector Machine Training (2010) (1.71 MB PDF)

Xi Yang, Supervisor: Professor J. Gondzio

Applying Stochastic programming Models in Financial Risk Management (2009) (1.6 MB PDF)

Xinan Yang, Supervisor: Dr. A. Grothey

The Top-percentile Traffic Routing Problem (2011) (890.77 KB PDF)

Yu Yu Supervisor: Professor K. McKinnon

Stochastic ship fleet routing with inventory limits (2009) (535.55 KB PDF)