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- 2024-2025
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- Differentiation of Modal Preferences in Public Transportation: Analysis and Enhancement of the MOBiSim Model for Scenario Simulation in Lausanne, Anne-Valérie Preto (Civil Engineering)
- Supervision: Negar Rezvany, Fabian Torres, Michel Bierlaire
- External expert: Antonin Danalet
- Integrating behavioral complexity into the facility location problem using advanced discrete choice models, Quoc Dang Tran (Electrical and Electronics Engineering)
- Supervision: Tom Haering, Léa Ricard
- External expert: TBD
- 2024
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- TBD, Thamin Maurer (Civil Engineering)
- Supervision: Michel Bierlaire
- External expert: Etienne Schaefer, SMA
- TBD, Timothée Hirt (Mechanical Engineering)
- Supervision: Michel Bierlaire
- External expert:
- Cost Control Methodology for Infrastructure Projects in Construction Phase, Esteban Requena (Civil Engineering)
- Supervision: Michel Bierlaire
- External expert:
- TBD, Martim Beels (None)
- Supervision: Michel Bierlaire
- External expert: Dr Christophe Salzmann
- Optimizing Gas Storage Strategies: Addressing Price Fluctuations and Leakage through a Mercuria Case Study, Antoine Goupil de Bouille (Mathematics)
- Supervision: Michel Bierlaire, Cloe Cortes Balcells, Fabian Torres
- External expert:
- Stochastic on-demand electric vehicle routing and charge scheduling, Mohamed Essayouti (Mathematics)
- Supervision: Léa Ricard, Tom Haering, Michel Bierlaire
- External expert: Claudia Bongiovanni
- Application of the information-theoretic clustering to the discrete choice, Alexandre Monti (Mathematics)
- Supervision: Pavel Ilinov, Evangelos Paschalidis, Michel Bierlaire
- External expert:
- 2023-2024
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- Modeling the Influence of Fear on Daily Activity Scheduling during a
Pandemic through an Endogenous Choice Set Formation Approach., Dixit Sabharwal (Communication Systems)
- Supervision: Michel Bierlaire, Cloe Cortes Balcells, Janody Pougala
- External expert:
- Actualisation des méthodes d'analyse des
carrefours giratoires, Pablo Garcia (Civil Engineering)
- Supervision: Michel Bierlaire
- External expert: Franco Tufo
- Learning joint rebalancing and dynamic pricing policies for Autonomous Mobility-on-Demand systems, Xinling Li (Civil Engineering)
- Supervision: Michel Bierlaire
- External expert: Filipe Rodrigues
- 2023
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- Decision-Focused Learning for Transportation Network Design, Lucas Bataillard (Mathematics)
- Supervision: Michel Bierlaire
- External expert: Emma Frejinger
- Optimisation et Déploiement d’une méthode de calculation au sein d’un groupe actif dans le second œuvre, Thomas Poulain (Civil Engineering)
- Supervision: Michel Bierlaire
- External expert: Bastien Sauve
- Energy efficiency estimation of buildings in Switzerland based on open-source data with machine learning models, Hilda Horvath (Master in Data Science)
- Supervision: Michel Bierlaire
- External expert: Félix Arbez-Gindre
- Capturing dynamics in synthetic population, Salim Benchelabi (Mathematics)
- Supervision: Marija Kukic, Janody Pougala, Michel Bierlaire
- External expert: Antonin Danalet
- Synthetic generation of activity motifs, Quentin Bochud (Civil Engineering)
- Supervision: Marija Kukic, Janody Pougala, Michel Bierlaire
- External expert: Gael Lederrey
- 2022-2023
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- Orders Allocation Management with Upstream Consolidation, Olivier Laferrere (None)
- Supervision: Fabian Torres, Michel Bierlaire
- External expert:
- 2022
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- Artificial intelligence for supply chain management and optimisation, Pierre Bouquet (Mechanical Engineering)
- Supervision: Michel Bierlaire
- External expert:
- Targeted COVID-19 policies in Switzerland: A review of different optimization strategies., Mattia Mariantoni (Mathematics)
- Supervision: Michel Bierlaire, Cloe Cortes Balcells, Nour Dougui
- External expert: Joseph Lemaitre
- Stochastic and robust hydropower unit commitment, Pierre Tarazi (Electrical and Electronics Engineering)
- Supervision: Tom Haering, Nicola Ortelli
- External expert: Maziar Kermani
- 2021-2022
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- Modélisation du réseau de transports publics genevois à la suite d'un événement réseau, Nicolas Richter (Civil Engineering)
- Supervision: Marija Kukic, Janody Pougala, Michel Bierlaire
- External expert: Antoine Stroh
- Representing destination choice sets within activity-based models, Nicolas Salvadé (Civil Engineering)
- Supervision: Janody Pougala, Tom Haering, Tim Hillel
- External expert: Patrick Manser
- 2021
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- Space habitation: regenerative CO2 capture system. Application on a space simulation module., Jean-Javid Nobari (Mechanical Engineering)
- Supervision: Claudio Leonardi
- External expert: Philippe Müllhaupt, Jean-Paul Kneib, Baptiste Cunin
- The railway timetable rescheduling problem with capacity constraints, Benoit Pahud (Civil Engineering)
- Supervision: Nour Dougui, Marija Kukic, Stefano Bortolomiol
- External expert: Hellwig Matthias
- Analyse du comportement d'une structure avec application des techniques de la réalité virtuelle, Lucas Ferrari (Civil Engineering)
- Supervision: Claudio Leonardi
- External expert: Prof. Miguel Fernández Ruiz
- 2020-2021
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- Simulating realistic traffic flows to predict bridge loadings, Isabelle Pumford (Computer science)
- Supervision: Tim Hillel, Michel Bierlaire
- External expert: Dimitrios Papastergiou, ASTRA
- 2020
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- Feuille de route pour l'électrification du réseau de bus urbains de Lausanne à l'horizon 2030, Alain Azzi (Mechanical Engineering)
- Supervision: Nicola Ortelli, Janody Pougala, Michel Bierlaire
- External expert: Philippe Seydoux
- Generating daily activity schedules using machine learning, Sergej Gasparovich (Civil Engineering)
- Supervision: Janody Pougala, Tim Hillel, Michel Bierlaire
- External expert: Antonin Danalet
- Transportation mode classification with smartphone accelerometer data: An end-to-end deep learning approach, Julien Harbulot (None)
- Supervision: Rico Krueger, Michel Bierlaire
- External expert: Florent Martin
- Risk assessment of pedestrian crossings, Adrien Nicolet (Civil Engineering)
- Supervision: Nicholas Molyneaux, Gael Lederrey, Michel Bierlaire
- External expert:
- 2019-2020
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- Investigations on a pilot-survey for modelling mobility behaviours in Switzerland, René Lugrin (Civil Engineering)
- Supervision: Meritxell Pacheco, Michel Bierlaire
- External expert: Sylvie Garda
- 2019
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- Disruption-caused railway timetable
rescheduling problem and its solution, Oliver Buschor (Civil Engineering)
- Supervision: Meritxell Pacheco, Stefano Bortolomiol, Michel Bierlaire
- External expert: Hellwig Matthias
- Warehouse inventory management optimization in Rolex SA, Rym Karime (Civil Engineering)
- Supervision: Nikola Obrenovic, Selin Atac, Michel Bierlaire
- External expert: Bruno Delaborde
- Dynamic optimization of a bicycle-sharing
system, Mohamed Detsouli (Civil Engineering)
- Supervision: Stefano Bortolomiol, Michel Bierlaire
- External expert: Frédéric Meunier
- Evaluation of Bootstrap methods, Jessica Hopkins (Mathematics)
- Supervision: Tim Hillel, Gael Lederrey, Michel Bierlaire
- External expert: Damon Wischik
- Heuristic algorithms to find market equilibria in oligopolies, Nicolas Pradignac (Computer science)
- Supervision: Stefano Bortolomiol, Nikola Obrenovic, Michel Bierlaire
- External expert: Olivier Gallay
- 2018-2019
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Automatic utility specification using machine learning techniques, Nicola Ortelli (Civil Engineering)
- Supervision: Michel Bierlaire
- External expert: Francesco Pereira
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Innovative technologies for improvement of
airport accessibility with the applications to Geneva Airport, Thibaut Guillaume Marie Richard (Civil Engineering)
- Supervision: Nikola Obrenovic, Selin Atac, Michel Bierlaire
- External expert: Philippe Canal, Virginie Marche
- 2018
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Offre ferroviaire 2030/35 entre Berne et Lausanne, Benoît Corday (Civil Engineering)
- Supervision: Daniel Emery
- External expert: Vincent Krayenbuhl
- Augmentation des réserves de capacité
du métro m1 des TL, David Moy de Vitry (Civil Engineering)
- Supervision: Daniel Emery
- External expert: Panos Tzieropoulos
- Concepts d'accessibilité pour les JO d'hiver Sion 2026, Clément Sintes (Civil Engineering)
- Supervision: Daniel Emery
- External expert: Claude Strickler
- 2017-2018
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- Modelling High Mobility Practices in Santiago de Chile, Pauline Hansotte (Civil Engineering)
- Supervision: Matthieu de Lapparent
- External expert: Prof. Ricardo Hurtubia
- Moving walkways in train stations, Charles Jeanbart (Civil Engineering)
- Supervision: Nicholas Molyneaux, Riccardo Scarinci, Michel Bierlaire
- External expert: TBD
- Plan directeur du triangle ferroviaire Clermont-Ferrand – Gannat – St.-Germain-des-Fossés, Jean-Baptiste Landes (Civil Engineering)
- Supervision: Daniel Emery
- External expert: Benoît Descourvières
- 2017
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- Simulator for fleet of autonomous vehicles, Demotz Vincent (Computer science)
- Supervision: Riccardo Scarinci, Yuki Oyama, Michel Bierlaire
- External expert: Bastien Rojanawisut
- Organisation d'un interface rail-route en Valais Central, Jérôme Bichsel (Civil Engineering)
- Supervision: Daniel Emery
- External expert: Pascal Bovey
- Demand based rolling stock allocation, Salma Deruiche (Civil Engineering)
- Supervision: Virginie Lurkin, Stefan Binder, Michel Bierlaire
- External expert: Simon Landureau
- Clip-Air-Rail - Capsules et gabarits ferroviaires, Martin Ellwanger (Civil Engineering)
- Supervision: Daniel Emery, Claudio Leonardi
- External expert: Thomas Bernet
- Dynamiques de la grande mobilité, Alexis Gumy (Civil Engineering)
- Supervision: Matthieu de Lapparent, Michel Bierlaire
- External expert: V. Kaufmann, E. Ravalet, Sebastien Munafo
- Concurrence sur les marchés automobiles européens: une approche par la
modélisation de la demande, Christophe Paillard (Mathematics)
- Supervision: Matthieu de Lapparent, Michel Bierlaire
- External expert: Antonin Danalet
- Modeling Heterogeneity of Drivers Route Choice Behavior in Quebec, Mathieu Plourde (Civil Engineering)
- Supervision: Evanthia Kazagli, Matthieu de Lapparent, Michel Bierlaire
- External expert: Charisma Choudhury
- Integrating Bicycle Travel Demand to a Land-Use and Transport Model, Marc-Edouard Schultheiss (Civil Engineering)
- Supervision: Matthieu de Lapparent, Marija Nikolic, Michel Bierlaire
- External expert: Christopher Zegras
- Passenger's Connection Time Preferences
in Airline Itinerary Choice, Elisabeth Zbinden (Civil Engineering)
- Supervision: Virginie Lurkin, Matthieu de Lapparent, Michel Bierlaire
- External expert: Laurie Garrow
- 2016-2017
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- Information system for passenger discretionary activities in transport terminals, Federico Orsini (None)
- Supervision: Riccardo Scarinci, Marija Nikolic, Michel Bierlaire
- External expert: Riccardo Rossi
- 2016
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- Analysis, tuning, hybridization and design of experiments for an adaptive large neighborhood search (ALNS) heuristic for a complex inventory routing problem, Raphaël Lüthi (None)
- Supervision: Iliya Markov, Yousef Maknoon, Michel Bierlaire
- External expert:
- Discrete choice model for the automobile market: modeling willingness-to-pay for marginal and non marginal changes in car attributes, Anna-Katharina Clodong (Civil Engineering)
- Supervision: Matthieu de Lapparent, Anna Fernandez Antolin, Michel Bierlaire
- External expert:
- 2015-2016
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- Disaggregate modeling of vehicle-miles traveled: what about users of alternative-fuel vehicles?, Takao Dantsuji (Civil Engineering)
- Supervision: Matthieu de Lapparent, Anna Fernandez Antolin, Michel Bierlaire
- External expert:
- Decision making for human resource training and allocation, Guillaume Lopez (Civil Engineering)
- Supervision: Yousef Maknoon, Shadi Sharif Azadeh, Michel Bierlaire
- External expert:
- Robust Design of a Single Line Electrical Bus, Ulrich Wehres (Civil Engineering)
- Supervision: Shadi Sharif Azadeh, Yousef Maknoon, Michel Bierlaire
- External expert:
- Towards Solar Decathlon: evaluation of different mobility scenarios, Frédéric Rast (Environmental Sciences and Engineering)
- Supervision: Riccardo Scarinci, Michel Bierlaire
- External expert: Philippe Couty
- 2015
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- Modeling consideration and willingness-to-pay for electric and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles in car renewal, Baillif Maurin (Civil Engineering)
- Supervision: Matthieu de Lapparent, Anna Fernandez Antolin, Michel Bierlaire
- External expert: Yves Delacrétaz
- Exploiting pedestrian WiFi traces for destination choice modeling, Loïc Tinguely (Civil Engineering)
- Supervision: Antonin Danalet, Matthieu de Lapparent, Michel Bierlaire
- External expert: Andres Sevtsuk
- 2014-2015
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- Optimization of arrivals and departure ow management at congested airports, Guilhem Pujol (None)
- Supervision: Shadi Sharif Azadeh, Michel Bierlaire, Tomás Robenek
- External expert:
- Optimisation of the network design of a futuristic transport system based on accelerated moving walkways, Bastien Rojanawisut (Mathematics)
- Supervision: Riccardo Scarinci, Iliya Markov, Michel Bierlaire
- External expert: Sacha Varone
- 2014
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- Individual activity-travel analysis based on smartphone WiFi data, Amélie Buisson (Civil Engineering)
- Supervision: Evanthia Kazagli, Antonin Danalet
- External expert: Dr Francisco Pereira
- A multi-class framework for a pedestrian cell transmission model accounting for population heterogeneity, Guy Cooper (Mathematics)
- Supervision: Flurin Hänseler, Marija Nikolic
- External expert:
- Development And Implementation Of A Decision Making Tool In Quality Control Networks Using Quantitative System Modeling Techniques, Pierre de Pommerol (Civil Engineering)
- Supervision: Michel Bierlaire
- External expert: Prof. Nicolas Zufferey
- Development of a urban distribution model and a strategic decision making tool for Singapore’s freight transport planning, Alexis Dubil (Civil Engineering)
- Supervision: Michel Bierlaire, Jianghang Chen
- External expert: Der Horng Lee
- Mode Choice Analysis Using Smartphone Data, Michael Friederich (Civil Engineering)
- Supervision: Evanthia Kazagli, Marija Nikolic, Anna Fernandez Antolin
- External expert:
- Exploring approaches to model financial decisions, Billal Mahoubi (Civil Engineering)
- Supervision: Amanda Stathopoulos, Michel Bierlaire
- External expert:
- TBD, Ilias Nafai (Civil Engineering)
- Supervision: Michel Bierlaire
- External expert: Ulrich Weidmann
- Optimisation des tournées de ramassage des employés de l'aéroport de Genève, Isabel Tovar (Civil Engineering)
- Supervision: Tomás Robenek, Stefan Binder, Michel Bierlaire
- External expert: Philippe Quaglia, Aéroport international de Genève
- TBD, Maëlle Zimmerman (Mathematics)
- Supervision: Michel Bierlaire
- External expert: Emma Frejinger
- 2013
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- How perceptions affect the modal choice? A cross country comparison from a gender oriented point of view, Silvia Francesca Varotto (None)
- Supervision: Michel Bierlaire, Amanda Stathopoulos, Aurélie Glerum
- External expert:
- 2012-2013
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- Associations among Household Charasteristics, Vehicle Characteristics and Emission Failures: An Application of Targeted Marketing Data, Stefan Binder (Environmental Sciences and Engineering)
- Supervision: Michel Bierlaire
- External expert: Laurie Garrow, GeorgiaTech
- Optimization of an electric bus network, Frédéric Pythoud (Mathematics)
- Supervision: Bilge Atasoy, Tomás Robenek, Michel Bierlaire
- External expert: Olivier Augé, ABB
- 2012
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- MEETAWAY: Connecting People Optimally, François Anken (Mathematics)
- Supervision: Prem Kumar, Bilge Atasoy, Michel Bierlaire
- External expert: Pedro Faustino
- A two-stage sequential linear programming approach to optimize security staff at Geneva Airport, Mahmoud Kharouf (Civil Engineering)
- Supervision: Michel Bierlaire, Nitish Umang, Prem Kumar
- External expert: Vincent-Ruben Jimenez
- Mode choice models for the city of Nice using psychometric indicators and latent variables, My Hang Nguyen (Civil Engineering)
- Supervision: Michel Bierlaire, Ricardo Hurtubia, Aurélie Glerum
- External expert: Valérie Attas, Veolia
- Activity space and social network, Jeanne Ythier (Environmental Sciences and Engineering)
- Supervision: Michel Bierlaire
- External expert: Prof. Joan Walker
- Integrated berth allocation and yard assignment in bulk ports using column generation, Tomas Robenek (None)
- Supervision: Michel Bierlaire, Nitish Umang
- External expert:
- 2011-2012
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- Pedestrian flow simulation and optimization in transportation hubs (case study), Sohrab Sahaleh (Civil Engineering)
- Supervision: Michel Bierlaire, Bilal Farooq, Antonin Danalet
- External expert: Prof. Winnie Daamen
- Hybrid choice models: an application to automobile demand, Lidija Stankovikj (Mathematics)
- Supervision: Michel Bierlaire, Aurélie Glerum
- External expert:
- 2011
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- Mobility in the Middle East, Laurene Aigrain (Civil Engineering)
- Supervision: Michel Bierlaire, Jingmin Chen
- External expert: Prof. John Polak
- An analysis of Singapore's road pricing system using Multi-agent transport simulations, Youssef Mezdani (Civil Engineering)
- Supervision: Gunnar Flötteröd
- External expert: Dr. Alexander Erath
- The urban development effects of a metro line extension : western arm of the Orange Line from Montreal to Laval, Aurélien Odobert (Civil Engineering)
- Supervision: Michel Bierlaire, Ricardo Hurtubia
- External expert: Prof. Zachary Patterson
- 2010-2011
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- The modeling of the investors behavior, Sabine Luisier (Mathematics)
- Supervision: Michel Bierlaire, Thomas Robin, Michaël Thémans
- External expert: Dr. Frank Crittin, LODH
- 2010
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- Sampling of alternatives for logit mixture models, Ines Azaiez (Mathematics)
- Supervision: Michel Bierlaire, Aurélie Glerum
- External expert: Prof. Ben-Akiva, MIT
- Analyse des relations entre la forme urbaine, l'accessibilité aux transports en commun et la mobilité quotidienne des habitants de la ville de Québec, Canada, Laetitia Bettex (Civil Engineering)
- Supervision: Michel Bierlaire, Ricardo Hurtubia
- External expert: Luis Miranda-Moreno, McGill University, Canada
- Blind Booking Purchase Patterns: discrete choice analysis, Alexandre Khelifa (Civil Engineering)
- Supervision: Michel Bierlaire, Bilge Atasoy, Prem Kumar
- External expert: Prof. Laurie Garrow, Georgia Tech.
- Balancing Energy Consumption and Location Precision in Continuous Location Tracking, Julien Eberle (Computer science)
- Supervision: Michel Bierlaire, Jingmin Chen
- External expert: Gian Paolo Perrucci
- Modeling for Strategic Robustness, Peter G. Swartz (Civil Engineering)
- Supervision: Michel Bierlaire, Prem Kumar
- External expert: Prof. Christopher Zegras, MIT
- 2009-2010
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- Application of Markov Decision Processes to pipeline data, Aurélie Glérum (Mathematics)
- Supervision: Michel Bierlaire
- External expert: Gianluca Antonini
- Combining heterogeneous sensor information for the activity tracking of smart phone users, Willem Himpe (None)
- Supervision: Michel Bierlaire, Gunnar Flötteröd, Ricardo Hurtubia
- External expert: Prof. Ben Immers, Dr. Chris Tampere
- 2009
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- An Empirical Investigation of the Determinants of Attention to Attributes in Choice Experiments, Antonin Danalet (Mathematics)
- Supervision: Michel Bierlaire, Michaël Thémans, Thomas Robin
- External expert: Prof. Ricardo Scarpa
- Comparative Study of CLIP-AIR's Multimodal Performance, Alexandre de Tenorio (Communication Systems)
- Supervision: Michel Bierlaire, Matteo Salani, Claudio Leonardi
- External expert: François Bouteiller, Baboo
- Experiences des moyens de transport et choix modal, Medhi-Seyed Tavakoli (Civil Engineering)
- Supervision: Michel Bierlaire, Thomas Robin
- External expert: Dr Christophe Jemelin
- Simulation and optimization in container terminals, Atoosa Kasirzadeh (None)
- Supervision: Michel Bierlaire, Matteo Salani, Ilaria Vacca
- External expert: -
- 2008-2009
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- Implementation of attribute strategies in advanced discrete choice models, Carol Kirchhofer (Mathematics)
- Supervision: Michel Bierlaire
- External expert: Dr. John Rose
- Extending the framework for MEV discrete choice models, Lorenza Santini (Mathematics)
- Supervision: Michel Bierlaire
- External expert: Mogens Fosgerau
- 2008
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- Measures of congestion in container terminals, Arnaud Vandaele (None)
- Supervision: Michel Bierlaire, Matteo Salani, Ilaria Vacca
- External expert:
- Dynamic Traffic Assignment in Lausanne, Marine Vidaud (Civil Engineering)
- Supervision: Michel Bierlaire
- External expert: Michaël Mahut
- 2007-2008
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- Gestion optimale de l'espace dans un système d'entreposage et distribution, Nicolas Anken (Mathematics)
- Supervision: Michel Bierlaire
- External expert: Angel Ruiz, Université Laval, Québec
- Optimization of road traffic counts location, Fanny Gillieron (Mathematics)
- Supervision: Michel Bierlaire
- External expert: Prof. Jaime Bacerlo, UPC, Barcelona, Spain
- 2006-2007
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- Modélisation de Bruxelles avec UrbanSIM, Lefteris Samartzis (Mathematics)
- Supervision: Michel Bierlaire, Zachary Patterson
- External expert: Sylvie Gayda, STRATEC
- Validation d'un modèle de mouvement de piétons, Sabina Schneider (Mathematics)
- Supervision: Michel Bierlaire, Thomas Robin
- External expert: Gianluca Antonin, IBM Research Zürich
- Customer Centric Revenue Management, Marjorie Benz (Mathematics)
- Supervision: Michel Bierlaire, Carolina Osorio Pizano
- External expert: Daniel Rueda, OpenPricer
- Field experiment on the willingness of the umployed to accept a job, with a mixed logit estimation, Flaminio Cadlini (None)
- Supervision: Michel Bierlaire
- External expert: Prof. Rico Maggi, USI
- 2006
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- Développement d'une étude de cas pour l'analyse des comportements par modèles de choix discrets, Gianni Farini (Mathematics)
- Supervision: Michel Bierlaire, Michaël Thémans
- External expert: Teghem J., Polytech. Mons, Belgique
- 2005-2006
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- Degenerate nonlinear constrained programming, Lionel Dumartheray (Mathematics)
- Supervision: Michel Bierlaire, Michaël Thémans
- External expert: Prof. Th. Liebling (EPFL - IMA - ROSO)
- Energy management optimization for a solar vehicle, Alexander Scheidegger (Mathematics)
- Supervision: Michaël Thémans, Emma Frejinger
- External expert: Liebling Th. M., EPFL-ROSO
- 2004-2005
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- Utilisation des modèles d'utilité pour évaluer la valeur du temps, Frédéric Mivelaz (Mathematics)
- Supervision: Michel Bierlaire, Michaël Thémans
- External expert: Rico Maggi, Uni. Lugano