[Job-offers-cs] Open 2-years Post-Doc position at ESSEC Business School, Paris

[Pekka Orponen]

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Subject: [DMANET] Open 2-years Post-Doc position at ESSEC Business 
School, Paris
Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2020 12:29:05 +0200
From: Ivana Ljubic <ivana.ljubic at essec.edu>
To: dmanet at zpr.uni-koeln.de

*Open 2-years Post-Doc position at ESSEC Business School, Paris*

ESSEC Business School (Cergy campus) is looking for a Post-Doc candidate 
who will be working on a development of new data-driven mathematical 
models and optimization algorithms for challenging applications in 
sustainable city logistics.*
*

*Project Description: *We will study innovative strategies for 
performing sustainable last-mile delivery operations. We propose to 
exploit existing public transportation services, in particular, during 
off-the-peak hours, when the vehicles are typically under-utilized. 
Public transport will cover the first lag of transportation and it will 
be then combined with green modalities performing the last lag 
(including droids and drones). This novel integration of public 
transportation into the city logistics will help to reduce the number of 
combustion engine vehicles performing last-mile deliveries, which will 
in turn imply reduced congestion and improving living conditions within 
urban areas.

*Required Skills: *The Post-Doc is expected to work independently and to 
have a doctoral degree in Operations Research, Mathematics, Computer 
Science or a related discipline.
A strong scientific background in Computational Optimization, Operations 
Research (decomposition methods, exact and heuristic methods, 
combinatorial optimization, mixed integer programming, branch-and-cut, 
branch-and-price) is expected. A good understanding of machine learning 
tools (e.g, neural networks, SVMs, random forests, classification and 
clustering methods) is appreciated.

*Working conditions at ESSEC:* With its 3 campuses (Paris, Singapore and 
Rabat), ESSEC Business School is a top European Business School with 
international and very diverse faculty and student communities. The 
ESSEC Master in Management is ranked #4 worldwide by the Financial Times 
in 2019. The ESSEC Master in Finance is ranked #5 worldwide in the FT 
ranking. The ESSEC Master in Data Science & Business Analytics (a joint 
program with Ecole Centrale Paris) is ranked #3 worldwide in the latest 
QS 2020 ranking.
The candidate will work under the supervision of OR professors at ESSEC: 
Laurent Alfandari, Claudia Archetti, Ivana Ljubic.
Annual gross salary: 34K Euros.
Special working conditions can be negotiated, due to the current 
covid-19 crisis.

*Application process: *Candidates should send their applications 
(including a cover letter, a detailed curriculum vitae, a list of 
publications, and two recommendation letters) to Professor Ivana LJUBIC: 
ivana.ljubic at essec.edu <mailto:ivana.ljubic at essec.edu>. *
*

*Deadline for applications: September 1, 2020.*

*Earliest starting date: *October 1, 2020