Reinhard Bürgy

Reinhard Bürgy is a Part-Time Lecturer at the Department of Computer Science, Lucerne School of Computer Science and Information Technology, Hochschule Luzern (Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts), Switzerland. He concurrently serves as a Solution Architect for Decision Support & Operations Research at Polypoint AG. His academic background includes roles as Senior Assistant and Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Freiburg and Polytechnique Montréal.

Education: PhD in Economics (Operations Research focus) from University of Freiburg (2014), Master in Business Informatics from University of Freiburg (2009).

Research focuses on quantitative decision support systems for industry and services, exact/heuristic optimization methods, combinatorial optimization, integer programming, algorithms & data structures, and operations/service management. Key application areas include production planning, sustainable logistics systems, and workforce scheduling in retail and healthcare.

His publications emphasize scheduling optimization (job shop, employee scheduling), logistics network design, and infrastructure resilience. Notable work includes convex cost job shop scheduling and decomposition heuristics for large-scale employee scheduling problems.

Advising and grants: No specific students or grants mentioned. Active in industry-academia collaboration through Polypoint AG and prior academic roles.