Athanassios (Thanos) N. Avramidis
Lecturer in Operational Research
Mathematical Sciences
University of Southampton
Highfield, Southampton SO171BJ, United Kingdom
Phone: +44 23 8059 5136, FAX: +44 23 8059 5147
aa1w07 {[( a t })] soton dot ac dot uk
Brief Biography
Soon after completing my doctoral thesis at the
School of Industrial Engineering
at
Purdue University ,
I won the First Prize in the 1993
George Nicholson Competition
sponsored by the
Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences
for my work on the integration of variance reduction techniques for Monte Carlo simulation:
ivrt77.pdf .
Between 1993 and 1997, I worked at
Sabre Airline Solutions
on airline revenue management projects and in schedule planning and revenue management
for the
French National Railways
in Paris, France.
I was Assistant Professor at the
School of Operations Research and Information Engineering
at
Cornell University
between 1997 and 2001. I was Invited Researcher at the
Department of Computer Science and Operations Research ,
University of Montreal
(2002-2005) and Researcher until September 2006, collaborating with Professor
Pierre L'Ecuyer .
I joined the University of Southampton in 2007.
I am primarily interested in operational and decision problems involving uncertainty.