Bissan Ghaddar
Adjunct Assistant Professor
MANAGEMENT SCIENCES
University of Waterloo
Canada
Biography
Bissan Ghaddar is an Assistant Professor in Data Analytics and Operations Research at the University of Waterloo working on problems at the intersection of smart cities, IoT, data analytics, and mathematical modeling and optimization for large-scale problems. Prior to joining the University of Waterloo, she worked on energy and transportation network optimization at IBM Research Dublin and on inventory management problems at the Centre for Operational Research and Analysis, Department of National Defence Canada. She was also invited for extended research visits at the Universität zu Köln in Germany and the University of Avignon in France. Dr. Ghaddar received a Ph.D. degree in operations research from the University of Waterloo, Canada. Her research has been supported by prestigious national and international scholarships and in 2012 she was awarded an FP7 IIF European Union Grant.
Research Interest
Non-linear Programming Semidefinite Programming Optimization
Publications
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Ghaddar B, Anjos MF, Liers F. A branch-and-cut algorithm based on semidefinite programming for the minimum k-partition problem. Annals of Operations Research. 2011 Aug 1;188(1):155-74.
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Ghaddar B, Marecek J, Mevissen M. Optimal power flow as a polynomial optimization problem. IEEE Transactions on Power Systems. 2016 Jan;31(1):539-46.
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Naoum-Sawaya J, Ghaddar B, Khawam S, Safa H, Artail H, Dawy Z. Adaptive approach for QoS support in IEEE 802.11 e wireless LAN. InWireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications, 2005.(WiMob'2005), IEEE International Conference on 2005 Aug 22 (Vol. 2, pp. 167-173). IEEE.
