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Dr. Xiang Song is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Mathematics, University of Portsmouth, within the Faculty of Technology and School of Mathematics and Physics. He is affiliated with the Centre for Operational Research & Logistics and the Portsmouth AI and Data Science Centre. His research focuses on cutting and packing problems, operational research, logistics optimization, and artificial intelligence applications in supply chain management. He has held EPSRC-funded projects, including the LANCS Initiative in Foundational Operational Research (2008-2011) and contributed to projects like automated algorithm selection for cutting/packing problems (2004-2008).
His research interests include unmanned vehicle routing for offshore inspections, maintenance planning for renewable energy infrastructure, stochastic supply chain modeling, and heuristic algorithms for complex optimization problems. He has published extensively in journals like European Journal of Operational Research and Expert Systems with Applications. His work bridges theoretical advancements with real-world applications in logistics, healthcare, and manufacturing.
- PhD: Jointly awarded by CIMS, Shenyang Institute of Automation (Chinese Academy of Sciences) and Université de Technologie de Troyes (2004)
- EPSRC Projects: Including strategic maintenance planning for offshore wind farms and blood supply network optimization in disaster scenarios
His research outputs span 27 peer-reviewed articles, with recent work addressing carbon cost impacts on supply chains, multi-modal logistics in medical supply networks, and UAV/USV coordination for offshore inspections. He supervises PhD students and collaborates with industry partners on practical operational research challenges.
