The research director of CARISMA is guided by its academic board. A number of faculty members provide research leadership. These faculty members together with research associates and Ph.D. students have set out to create a vibrant interdisciplinary research environment.

Faculty Members

Professor Gautam Mitra (Director)

BEE(JU), MSc(Lond), Phd(Lond), FBCS, FIMA, FRSA

Operational Research, Computational Optimisation, Stochastic programming, Risk Decisions in Finance and Other Industries.

e-mail : Gautam.Mitra@brunel.ac.uk
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Professor Gautam Mitra

Professor John Beasley (Deputy Director)

Operational Research, Combinatorial Optimisation.

e-mail : John.Beasley@brunel.ac.uk
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Professor John Beasley

Dr Alessandra Canepa

Econometrics (time series analysis and re-sampling methods), Financial Econometrics (sovereign debt management and yield curve estimation), and Industrial Economics (investments in R&D, innovation policy).

e-mail : Alessandra.Canepa@brunel.ac.uk
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Alessandra Canepa

Professor Ken Darby-Dowman

Operational Research, Combinatorial Optimisation,
Optimisation Modelling and Optimisation under Uncertainty

e-mail : Kenneth.Darby-Dowman@brunel.ac.uk
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Professor Ken Darby-Dowman

Professor Malcolm Irving

Power Network Analysis; Energy Utility Applications.

e-mail : Malcolm.Irving@brunel.ac.uk
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Professor Malcolm Irving

Dr Paresh Date

Mathematical Control Theory, System Identification and Approximation (Deterministic/Stochastic), Modelling Uncertainty of Dynamic Systems.

e-mail : Paresh.Date@brunel.ac.uk
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Dr Paresh Date

Dr Cormac Lucas

Mathematical Programming, Modelling & Analysis of Mathematical Programming Models.

e-mail : Cormac.Lucas@brunel.ac.uk
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Dr Cormac Lucas

Dr Harris Makatsoris

Agent-based computing and its application in modelling, simulation and optimisation of complex systems and their interactions data driven modelling responsive and sustainable production and supply chain modelling and optimisation , RFID systems and applications grid computing in manufacturing and supply chain management

e-mail : Harris.Makatsoris@brunel.ac.uk
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Dr Harris Makatsoris

Dr Nenad Mladenović

Metaheuristics and exact methods in combinatorial and global optimization & Clustering, data mining and Image processing (Location, Routing, distribution management).

e-mail : Nenad.Mladenovic@brunel.ac.uk
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Dr Nenad Mladenović

Dr Diana Roman

Optimisation Modelling, Optimisation under Uncertainty, Risk Decisions in Finance.

e-mail : Diana.Roman@brunel.ac.uk
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Dr Diana Roman

Dr Jaideep Roy

Economic Theory, Game Theory, Decision Theory, Social Choice and Experimental Economics.

e-mail : Jaideep.Roy@brunel.ac.uk
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Dr Antoaneta Serguieva

Evolving complex systems, computational intelligence in risk modelling and analysis, hybrid knowledge representation.

e-mail : Antoaneta.Serguieva@brunel.ac.uk
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Dr  Antoaneta Serguieva

Dr Fabio Spagnolo

International Finance, Financial Econometrics and Macroeconomics.

e-mail : Fabio.Spagnolo@brunel.ac.uk
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Dr Nicola Spagnolo

Time-series econometrics, nonlinear models,
international finance.

e-mail : Nicola.Spagnolo@brunel.ac.uk
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Dr Veronica Vinciotti

Statistical Bioinformatics, Gene network modelling, Classification, Credit Scoring

e-mail : veronica.vinciotti@brunel.ac.uk
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Dr Veronica Vinciotti

Dr Keming Yu

Quantile Regression (Parametric and Nonparametric Quantile, Bayesian Quantile, Extreme Quantile) and Application in Finance (Volatility Estimation, VaR Estimation, Return Distribution), in Risk Analysis (Flood Risk Assessment, Survival Analysis). Nonparametric Smoothing, Smoothing Parametric Selection, Variance Estimation and Application in Time-Inhomogeneous Diffusions. Robust Statistics, Bayesian Inference for Modelling Uncertainty.

Email : Keming.Yu@brunel.ac.uk
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Dr Keming Yu