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Richard Ivey Building 2338
Associate Professor, Management Science & Sustainability
John. M. Thompson Chair in Engineering Leadership & Innovation
Bissan Ghaddar is an Associate Professor of Management Science at the Ivey Business School working on problems at the intersection of machine learning and optimization models. Prior to joining Ivey Business School, she was an Assistant Professor in Data Analytics at the Department of Management Sciences at the University of Waterloo. She has also worked on energy, water, and transportation network optimization at IBM Research and on inventory management problems at the Centre for Operational Research and Analysis, Department of National Defence Canada. Dr. Ghaddar received a Ph.D. degree in operations research from the University of Waterloo, Canada. She was invited for extended research visits at ESSEC Business School, Politecnico di Milano, Universität zu Köln in Germany, and the University of Avignon. Her work has been published in prestigious journals such as Mathematical Programming, INFORMS Journal on Computing, SIAM Journal on Optimization, among others. Her research has been supported by national and international grants including NSERC, OCE, Cisco, H2020, and Marie Curie International Incoming Fellowship. She serves as the Research Lead at the Ivey Energy Policy and Management Centre and is a fellow at the Balsillie School of International Affairs, engaged in the research cluster on AI, Global Governance, and International Public Policy. She is the Associate Editor for the EURO Journal on Computational Optimization.