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Dr. Roberto Baldacci
Associate Professor
Dr. Roberto Baldacci
Associate Professor
Educational Qualifications
PhD in Operations Research
MSc in Computer Science with top honours
Entity
College of Science and Engineering
Divison
Engineering Management & Decision Sciences
Biography
Dr. Baldacci is an Associate Professor at the College of Science and Engineering. He holds a PhD in Operations Research from Imperial College London. Before joining HBKU, he was an Associate Professor at the University of Bologna, Italy (2005–2022), an Assistant Professor at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia (2001–2005), and a Postdoctoral Research Associate at Imperial College London (2000–2001).
His research focuses on exact and heuristic algorithms for combinatorial optimization, particularly in transportation and logistics. His work includes dynamic programming, branch-and-bound, branch-and-cut, column generation, and metaheuristics. He has also conducted literature surveys on routing problems and is exploring stochastic and distributionally robust optimization.
Dr. Baldacci has over 25 years of teaching experience and has supervised numerous students at all levels. He serves on the editorial boards of Operations Research and Transportation Science. He has published over 90 papers in top journals, including about 30 papers in Mathematical Programming, INFORMS Journal on Computing, Transportation Science, and Operations Research.
PhD in Operations Research
Imperial College, University of London, United Kingdom
1998
MSc in Computer Science with top honours
University of Bologna, Italy
1994
- Operations Research
- Management Science
- Transportation
- Logistics
Associate Professor
College of Science and Engineering, Hamad Bin Khalifa University
2022 - Present
Associate Professor
Department of Electrical, Electronic, and Information Engineering “Guglielmo Marconi”, University of Bologna, Italy
2012 - 2022
Assistant Professor
Department of Electrical, Electronic, and Information Engineering “Guglielmo Marconi”, University of Bologna, Italy
2005 - 2012
Assistant Professor
Department of Engineering Sciences and Methods, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy
2001 - 2005
Postdoctoral Research
Centre for Quantitative Finance, Imperial College London, United Kingdom
2000 - 2001
Zhang, Y., Baldacci, R., Sim, M., & Tang, J. (2019). Routing optimization with time windows under uncertainty. Mathematical Programming, 175(1), 263–305.
Baldacci, R., Mingozzi, A., & Roberti, R. (2011). New route relaxation and pricing strategies for the vehicle routing problem. Operations Research, 59(5), 1269–1283.
Baldacci, R., & Mingozzi, A. (2009). A unified exact method for solving different classes of vehicle routing problems. Mathematical Programming, 120, 347–380.
Baldacci, R., Christofides, N., & Mingozzi, A. (2008). An exact algorithm for the vehicle routing problem based on the set partitioning formulation with additional cuts. Mathematical Programming, 115, 351–385.
Baldacci, R., Hadjiconstantinou, E., & Mingozzi, A. (2004). An exact algorithm for the capacitated vehicle routing problem based on a two-commodity network flow formulation. Operations Research, 52(5), 723–738.
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- 2024, Ranked among the top 2% of the most cited scholars worldwide in the Stanford/Elsevier Top 2% Scientist Rankings (https://elsevier.digitalcommonsdata.com/datasets/btchxktzyw/7).
- 2024, Meritorious Service Award from Transportation Science. The award is conferred by Transportation Science to recognize Associate Editors and reviewers who have offered exceptional service to the journal in the review process. Transportation Science is the flagship journal of the Transportation Science and Logistics Society of INFORMS and is the foremost journal in the field of transportation analysis.
- 2023, Best Paper Award, 11th International Conference on Logistics and Maritime Systems, “LOGMS 2023, Optimizing Continuous-Time Service Network Design with Holding Costs”, Shengnan Shu, Zhou Xu, and Roberto Baldacci.
- 2023, Best Paper in the 2023 IISE Transactions Focus Issue on Supply Chain and Logistics, “Branch-price-and-cut for trucks and drones cooperative delivery,”Lu Zhen, Jiajing Gao, Zheyi Tan, Shuaian Wang and Roberto Baldacci, IISE Transactions, 55(3): 271-287, 2023.
- 2011, INFORMS Transportation Science and Logistics (TSL) Best Paper Award 2011 for the paper “A Unified Exact Method for Solving Different Classes of Vehicle Routing Problems”, Mathematical Programming Ser. A, 120(2):347– 380, 2009.