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Dr. Roberto Baldacci
Associate Professor
Dr. Roberto Baldacci
Associate Professor
Educational Qualifications
PhD in Operations Research
MSc degree in Computer Science with top honors
Entity
College of Science and Engineering
Divison
Engineering Management & Decision Sciences
Biography
Dr. Baldacci is Associate Professor of Operations Research at the College of Science and Engineering, Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU), Doha, Qatar. Prior to joining HBKU, he has been an Associate Professor of Operations Research at the Department of Electrical, Electronic, and Information Engineering “Guglielmo Marconi” (DEI), University of Bologna, Italy (2005-2022), Assistant Professor of Operations Research, Department of Engineering Sciences and Methods (DISMI), University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy (2001-2005), and Postdoctoral Research Associate, Centre for Quantitative Finance, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom (2000-2001).
PhD in Operations Research
Imperial College, University of London, United Kingdom.
1998
MSc degree in Computer Science with top honors
University of Bologna, Italy.
1994
- “Routing Optimization with Generalized Consistency Requirements.” Transportation Science 56, no. 1: 223–44, 2022.
- “A Benders Decomposition Approach for the Multivehicle Production Routing Problem with Order-up-to-Level Policy.” Transportation Science 55, no. 1: 160–78, 2021.
- “A New Branch-and-Price-and-Cut Algorithm for One-Dimensional Bin-Packing Problems.” INFORMS Journal on Computing 32, no. 2: 428–43, 2020.
- “Optimal Solution of Vehicle Routing Problems with Fractional Objective Function.” Transportation Science, 2020.
- “Routing Optimization with Time Windows under Uncertainty.” Mathematical Programming 175, no. 1–2: 263–305, 2019.
- “The Vehicle Routing Problem with Transhipment Facilities.” Transportation Science 51, no. 2: 592–606, 2017.
- “An Exact Algorithm for the Two-Echelon Capacitated Vehicle Routing Problem.” Operations Research 61, no. 2: 298–314, 2013.
- “New Route Relaxation and Pricing Strategies for the Vehicle Routing Problem.” Operations Research 59, no. 5: 1269–83, 2011.
- “An Exact Algorithm for the Pickup and Delivery Problem with Time Windows.” Operations Research 59, no. 2: 414–26, 2011.
- “An Exact Algorithm for the Period Routing Problem.” Operations Research 59, no. 1: 228–41, 2011.
- “A Unified Exact Method for Solving Different Classes of Vehicle Routing Problems.” Mathematical Programming 120, no. 2: 347–80, 2009.
- “An Exact Algorithm for the Vehicle Routing Problem Based on the Set Partitioning Formulation with Additional Cuts.” Mathematical Programming 115, no. 2: 351–85, 2008.
- “The Capacitated m -Ring-Star Problem.” Operations Research 55, no. 6: 1147–62, 2007.
- “An Exact Algorithm for the Capacitated Vehicle Routing Problem Based on a Two-Commodity Network Flow Formulation.” Operations Research 52, no. 5: 723–38, 2004.
- https://scholar.google.it/citations?user=VSepEFYAAAAJ&hl=it
- Author of two highly cited papers which received enough citations to place them in the top 1% of the academic field of Engineering based on a highly cited threshold for the field and publication year. (Source: Web of Science, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022).
- Among the ten high-cited authors in the research on Pickup and Delivery Problem from 1995 to 2021. (Source: https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/12/9/4607)
- INFORMS Transportation Science and Logistics Best Paper Award 2011 for the paper: Baldacci, Roberto, and Aristide Mingozzi. “A Unified Exact Method for Solving Different Classes of Vehicle Routing Problems.” Mathematical Programming 120, no. 2: 347–80, 2009.