Natashia Boland
Last updated: November 17th, 2003
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Short Biography
Natashia L. Boland received her BSc (Hons) in Mathematics and Computer Science from the University of Western Australia in 1988, and her PhD in Mathematics from the same institution in 1992. Presently she is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Melbourne, and a member of the Department's Operations Research Group. Previously she held a postdoctoral research fellowship at the School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Georgia Intitute of Technology, in 1994, and a postdoctoral research fellowship at the Department of Combinatorics and Optimization at the University of Waterloo in 1993. Prior to these academic appointments, she spent 6 months in 1992 working with a Melbourne software company, The Preston Group, on airline applications of operations research.
Dr Boland has taught first-year maths classes, third-year classes in operations research, and an Honours level class in integer and combinatorial optimisation. She has a number of active research projects in both theoretical and applied operations research, and is currently supervising five PhD projects, one Honours project, and a third-year individual study project.
Dr Boland has regularly provided consulting services to industry in a number of areas, particularly in airline planning, transportation logistics and scheduling. She is now dedicated to the delivery of professional consulting services, with the creation of Melbourne Operations Research - MORe. Directed by Dr Boland, MORe aims to deliver consulting services and expertise in operations research to business, industry, government and community organizations. Using mathematical tools, MORe aims to inform the decision-making processes of its clients at all levels - strategic, tactical and operational - with high-quality quantitative input.
Research Interests
Dr Boland’s research interests include
· integer programming,
· column generation,
· dual methods in integer programming,
· polyhedral combinatorics,
· constraint programming,
· logistics and
· scheduling with special interest in applications to
· airline planning,
· facility location, including location of hubs,
· telecommunications, especially in network design, and
· transportation logistics.
I am currently involved in projects with a number of associate researchers:
· Prof.
Peter Stuckey
Project: Interfacing Integer Programming, Constraint Logic Programming and
Combinatorial Optimisation
Project: Scheduling and Timetabling in Educational Institutions
Project: Inventory Routing
Project: Open-Pit Mine Optimization, in collaboration with BHP-Billiton, Dr Gary Froyland and Dr Merab Menabde
Project: Underground Mine Optimization
· Assoc. Prof. Barry Hughes
Project: Scheduling and Timetabling in Educational Institutions
Project: Optimizing Cancer Radiation Treatment Delivery with Multileaf Collimators
Project: Constrained Shortest Path Problems in Networks
Project: Aircraft Routing and Related Mathematical Problems
A list of publications can be found here.
CURRENT PHD AND HONOURS STUDENTS
· Bruce Davey
PhD Topic: Interfacing Integer Programming, Constraint Logic Programming and
Combinatorial Optimisation
Co-supervisor: Prof. Peter Stuckey
· Liam Merlot
PhD Topic: Timetabling in Educational Institutions
Co-supervisors: Prof. Peter Stuckey and Assoc. Prof. Barry Hughes
· Chris Fricke
PhD Topic: Open-Pit Mine Optimization
Co-supervisors: Prof. Peter Taylor and Dr Gary Froyland
· Armando Rodado
PhD Topic: Inventory Routing
Co-supervisor: Prof. Peter Taylor
· Chris Alford
PhD Topic: Underground Mine Optimization
Co-supervisors: Prof. Peter Taylor
· Emily Duane
Honours Topic: Inventory Routing
PAST PHD STUDENTS
