Our people

Learn more about our team and their expertise in specific areas of risk, optimisation, finance and health.

Dr Hongyu Zhang

Lecturer

Research interests

  • Stochastic programming
  • Energy systems optimisation
  • Machine learning and AI

Accepting applications from PhD students

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Dr Huan Yu

Lecturer in Business Analytics

Research interests

  • Data-driven analytics
  • Robust optimization
  • Reinforcement learning

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Dr Ian Dawson

Associate Professor

Research interests

  • Risk perception
  • Risk communication
  • Judgment and decision making

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Dr Iman Taani

Lecturer in Information Systems

Research interests

  • Healthcare IT
  • Emerging technologies
  • Distributed work

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Dr Jaw-Kai Wang

Senior Teaching Fellow
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Professor Joerg Fliege

Professor of Operational Research

Research interests

  • Nonlinear Optimization
  • Discrete Optimization
  • Operational Research

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Dr Jonathan Klein

Associate Professor

Research interests

  • Healthcare delivery and management
  • The application of problem structuring methods (PSMs)
  • The generation and use of evidence in management science applications.
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Professor Konstantinos Katsikopoulos

Professor of Behavioural Science

Research interests

  • Human decision making: Prescriptive and descriptive
  • AI decision making: Transparency
  • Behavioural operations: Modeling and prediction of human behaviour

Accepting applications from PhD students

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Dr Libo Li

Lecturer in Business Analytics

Research interests

  • Time-to-event analysis
  • Text analytics
  • Network analytics 

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Dr Mahmudul Hasan BSc (Hons), MSc, PhD, FHEA

Lecturer in Information Systems

Research interests

  • Disaster information management
  • Online/virtual communities
  • Managing falsehoods on social media

Accepting applications from PhD students

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