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Lazaridis School of Business and Economics
Borzou Rostami

Borzou Rostami

Assistant Professor, Operations and Decisions Sciences (ODS)

Borzou is an assistant professor of Operations and Decisions Sciences at Lazaridis School of Business and Economics, Wilfrid Laurier University. He is also a researcher at the Canada Excellence Research Chair in Data Science for Real-Time Decision-Making at Polytechnique Montreal and Interuniversity Research Centre on Enterprise Networks, Logistics and Transportation (CIRRELT). Prior to joining Laurier, Borzou was a postdoctoral researcher at Polytechnique Montreal, École de Technologie Supérieure, Montreal, and TU Dortmund, Germany. Borzou holds a PhD in Information Technology/Operations Research from the Polytechnic University of Milan, Italy.

His current research interests include:

Supply chain and retails analytics and optimization
Integrated supply chain planning (e.g., location-routing, production-distribution, sales-operations)
Supply chain network design (e.g., facility location, hub network design)
Large-scale Optimization (e.g., Benders decomposition, outer approximation, column generation, Lagrangian relaxation, branch-and-cut, branch-and-price)
Data-driven optimization (e.g., techniques based on stochastic programming, dimensionality reduction techniques, distributionally robust optimization)
Machine learning utilization for real-time decision making in supply chain networks
Transportation and logistics with interactions (e.g., nonlinear vehicle routing, nonlinear shortest path)

Student Opportunities / Supervising

I supervise graduate students and post-doctoral fellows in the area of (but not limited to) supply chain analytics, transportation and logistics, network design, data-driven optimization, and nonlinear combinatorial optimization. If you are interested in my research areas, please directly contact me for more information and include your cv and a description of your research interests as well as the type of position you are interested in pursuing.

We are currently accepting PhD students. In our PhD program in Supply Chain, Operations and Technology Management, we welcome applications from students with backgrounds in business, mathematics, engineering, economics and related fields. The ODS area has a diverse set of faculty members interested in topics including innovation, healthcare operations, energy, operations research and supply chain management. If you have questions about the program please contact me or visit our PhD website.

Selected Publications

The complete list of my publications is available here.

Rostami B, Chitsaz M, Arslan O, Laport G, Lodi A. "Single-allocation hub location with heterogeneous economies of scale". Operations Research (forthcoming). (2021)
Rostami B, Desaulniers G, Errico F, Lodi A. "Branch-price-and-cut algorithms for the vehicle routing problem with stochastic and correlated travel times". Operations Research. 69(2): 436-455. (2021)
Rostami B, Kämmerling N, Buchheim C, Naoum-Sawaya J, Clausen U. "Stochastic single-allocation hub location". European Journal of Operational Research. 289(3): 1087-1106. (2021)
Rostami B, Chassein A, Hopf M, Frey D, Buchheim C, Malucelli F, Goerigk M. "The Quadratic Shortest Path Problem: Complexity, Approximability, and Solution Methods". European Journal of Operational Research. 268(2): 473-485. (2018)
Rostami B, Kämmerling N, Buchheim C, Clausen U. "Reliable Uncapacitated Single Allocation Hub Location Problem under Hub Breakdowns". Computers & Operations Research. 96: 15-29. (2018)
Meier J.F, Clausen U, Rostami B, Buchheim C. "A Compact Linearisation of Euclidean Single Allocation Hub Location Problems". Electronic Notes in Discrete Mathematics. 52: 37-44. (2016)
Rostami B, Malucelli F, Belotti P, Gualandi S. "Lower bounding procedure for the Asymmetric Quadratic Traveling Salesman Problem". European Journal of Operational Research. 253(3): 584-592. (2016)
Rostami B, Malucelli F. "A Generalized Gilmore-Lawler Procedure for the Quadratic Assignment Problem". Electronic Notes in Discrete Mathematics. 55: 77-80. (2016)
Rostami B, Buchheim C, Meier J. F, Clausen U. "Lower Bounding Procedures for the Single Allocation Hub Location Problem". Electronic Notes in Discrete Mathematics. 55: 69-76. (2016)
Rostami B, Strothmann C, Buchheim C. "A Decomposition Approach for Single Allocation Hub Location Problems with Multiple Capacity Levels". Lecture Notes in Computer Science. 9849: 237-248. (2016)
Rostami B, Malucelli F. "Lower Bounds for the Quadratic Minimum Spanning Tree Problem Based on Reduced Cost Computation". Computers & Operations Research. 64: 178-188. (2015)
Rostami B, Malucelli F, Frey D, Buchheim C. "On the Quadratic Shortest Path Problem". Lecture Notes in Computer Science. 9125: 379-390. (2015)
Rostami B, Malucelli F. "A Revised Reformulation-Linearization Technique for the Quadratic Assignment Problem". Discrete Optimization. 14: 97-103. (2014)
Rostami B, Cremonesi P, Malucelli F. "A Graph Optimization Approach to Item-Based Collaborative Filtering. Fidanova S.Recent Advances in Computational Optimization". (470): 15-30. (2013)