معرفی
Raf Jans is a Professor in the Department of Logistics and Operations Management at HEC Montréal. He holds the Chair in Supply Chain Operations Planning and serves as the Academic Supervisor for the Ph.D. in Logistics and Operations Management. His research focuses on Operations Management, Production Planning, and Applications of Operations Research, with expertise in Integer Programming and Combinatorial Optimization.
Education: B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Business Engineering, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KU Leuven); Ph.D. in Applied Economics and Operations Research, KU Leuven.
Research Interests: His work addresses supply chain optimization, stochastic lot-sizing, vehicle routing, inventory management, and decomposition methods. He collaborates with CIRRELT and GERAD research centers, contributing to large-scale operational problems in logistics and production systems.
Publications (2020–2025): Focus on integrated production-transportation systems, stochastic optimization, and heuristic algorithms for complex supply chain challenges. Recent topics include line balancing, lot-sizing with storage allocation, and emission-constrained routing.
Advising: Supervised 4 Ph.D., 5 M.Sc., and 24 project students on topics ranging from supply chain transformation to production scheduling and inventory segmentation. Collaborates with industry partners like Bombardier and Pratt & Whitney Canada.
Labs/Teams: Active member of CIRRELT (Interuniversity Research Centre on Enterprise Networks) and GERAD (Group for Research in Decision Analysis).
