Alumni

Daniel’s PhD research was completed as part of the Priestley Scholarship Award jointly with the University of Melbourne and the University of Birmingham. His thesis, supervised by OPTIMA CI, Professor Michael Kirley, contributed in several areas within evolutionary computation for dynamic multi-objective optimisation problems.
Daniel was appointed Research Fellow in Industrial Mathematics at the University of Birmingham, with upcoming projects including working on predictive algorithms for clean-air turbulence and in graph-based analysis of information transmission in social networks.

Daniel Bustos is a computer engineer with a MSc in computer science and a PhD in operations research and transport engineering, specialising in techniques such as mathematical programming, heuristic and metaheuristic algorithms, and simulation modeling.

An Analytics Engineer, Achini’s PhD at the University of Melbourne focused on discrete stochastic optimisation and other optimisation techniques for scheduling problems. Her project was titled “Simulation and Optimisation approach for staff rostering of a blood donor centre”. The project scope was to determine a method for finding the optimal configuration of staff shifts based on the predicted staffing demand using a simulation model that captures the uncertainty in the donation process. Achini was co-supervised by OPTIMA CIs Dr Joyce Zhang and Prof. Mark Fackrell.