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My research interests cut across operational research and computer science, investigating flexible and general cross domain optimisation methods to solve NP-hard optimisation problems.
| Title: | STORi: Efficient Network Design with Optimal Slot Offering for Grocery Home Delivery |
| Funding Body: | TESCO |
| Grant Total: | £30,000 |
| Principal Investigator: | Ahmed Kheiri |
| Co-Investigator: | Adam Letchford |
| Project Start Date: | October 2020 |
| Length of Project: | 36 months |
| Title: | Hyper-heuristics and Data Science Techniques for Inventory Routing Problem |
| Funding Body: | SPECIES (the Society for the Promotion of Evolutionary Computation in Europe and its Surroundings) |
| Grant Total: | 2,700 euros |
| Project Leader: | Ahmed Kheiri |
| Project Start Date: | October 2020 |
| Length of Project: | 3 months |
| Notes: | SPECIES offers a limited number of scholarships in its areas of interest, for PhD students to work with relevant research groups |
| Title: | RESilient Emergency Preparedness for Natural Disaster Response through Operational Research (RESPOND-OR) |
| Funding Body: | EPSRC (Ref EP/T003979/1) |
| Grant Total: | £515,924 |
| Principal Investigator: | Konstantinos Zografos |
| Co-Investigators: | Juliana Sutanto, Ahmed Kheiri and Kevin Glazebrook |
| Project Start Date: | October 2019 |
| Length of Project: | 24 months |
| Other Researchers: | University of Khartoum: Hisham Abushama and Hiba Mohamed Ali. University of Indonesia: Akhmad Hidayatno, Komarudin Komarudin, Heru Suhartanto. Gadjah Mada University: Bertha Maya Sopha. |
| Notes: | This project has many stakeholder partners including: From Indonesia: National Disaster Management Authority (BNPB), Disaster Management Agency of the Yogyakarta Special Region (BPBD DIY), Humanitarian Forum Indonesia (HFI) and RedR Indonesia. From Sudan: National Council of Civil Defence, Humanitarian Aid Commission, Ministry of Water Resources, Irrigation and Electricity, Ministry of Health, National Ribat University and Nile Basin Institute (NBI) |
| Title: | Developing and Implementing Novel and Advanced, Hyper-heuristics based Routing Technologies for Standard and Non-standard Haulage Markets |
| Funding Body: | KTP Scheme (Ref KTP11692) |
| Grant Total: | £207,627 (£139,110 from Innovate UK + £68,517 from Optrak) |
| Industrial Partner: | Optrak Distribution Software Limited |
| Project Start Date: | May 2019 |
| Length of Project: | 27 months |
| Academic Team: | Ender Ozcan (University of Nottingham) and Ahmed Kheiri |
| Notes: | This is a joint project between the University of Nottingham, Lancaster University and Optrak Distribution Software Limited |
| Title: | Helicopter Numbers and Base Locations |
| Client: | North West Air Ambulance |
| Grant Total: | £11,172 |
| Personnel: | Ahmed Kheiri and Burak Boyaci |
| Project Start Date: | February 2020 |
| Length of Project: | 6 months |
| Notes: | This consultancy project aims to study the impact of having different numbers of helicopters and to consider the most appropriate bases for the aircraft |
| Title: | An Investigation into OR Techniques for Conference Scheduling Problems |
| Funding Body: | Mathematical Sciences, EPSRC - Lancaster University |
| Grant Total: | £75,000 |
| Project Start Date: | October 2020 |
| Main Supervisor: | Ahmed Kheiri |
| Co-Supervisor: | Peter Jacko |
| Notes: | This PhD studentship covers up to four years of full payment of tuition fees plus an annual stipend for living expenses |
| Title: | Organise "Prediction and Optimisation" Workshop to Contribute to the Vibrancy of the STOR-i Research Environment |
| Funding Body: | STORi, Lancaster University |
| Grant Total: | £5,000 |
| Project Start Date: | September 2019 |
| Organising Committee: | Trivikram Dokka, Ahmed Kheiri, Rebecca Killick, Adam Letchford and Ivan Svetunkov |
| Notes: | In light of the Coronavirus and with the welfare of our staff and delegates in mind, this event has been cancelled |
| Title: | Mathematical Programming Techniques for the Nurse Rostering Problem |
| Funding Body: | School of Mathematics, Cardiff University |
| Grant Total: | £1,600 |
| Project Start Date: | June 2016 |
| Length of Project: | 8 weeks |
| Involvement: | Project Leader |