Dr Thu Dang
Lecturer in Management ScienceResearch Overview
My research is focused on Combinatorial Optimisation Problems. I concentrate both on exact methods for solving problems to proven optimality, and heuristic methods for real-life problems.
My PhD research was with the STOR-i CDT, using exact algorithms and heuristic methods for large-scale and complex Vehicle Routing Problems . My supervisors were Prof. Adam Letchford and Dr. Burak Boyaci at Lancaster University in collaboration with Routeware, Inc. company.
PhD Supervision Interests
I am willing to supervise PhD students interested in heuristic methods and/or exact algorithms for Combinatorial Optimisation Problems. Experience in programming is highly desirable.
Algorithms for Vehicle Routing Problems
01/01/2003 → …
Research
The international Conference on Optimization, Modeling, Simulation and Analytics (COMOSA 2025)
Participation in conference - Academic
Workshop on Choice-based Optimisation and Demand Modelling
Participation in workshop, seminar, course
The rescheduling school bus routing problem under a constraint on thenumber of students with negative impact
Oral presentation
5th Joint IMA/ORS Conference on the Mathematics of Operational Research
Participation in conference - Academic
The 4th Annual Conference of Vietnam Operations Research Network
Participation in conference - Academic
On the Hierarchical Directed Capacitated Arc Routing Problem
Oral presentation
8th International Symposium on Combinatorial Optimization
Participation in conference - Academic
LUMS Research Conference 2024
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
The 12th International Conference on Computational Data and Social Networks.
Participation in conference - Academic
the 12th International Symposium on Information and Communication Technology (SOICT 2023)
Participation in conference - Academic
The Operational Research Society's annual conference (OR65)
Participation in conference - Academic
Improving a constructive heuristic for the general routing problem
Oral presentation
36th Conference of the European Chapter on Combinatorial Optimization
Participation in conference - Academic
4th Joint IMA/ORS Conference on the Mathematics of Operational Research
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
Kingman Prize
Other distinction
YoungWomen4OR
Prize (including medals and awards)
STOR-i Centre for Doctoral Training
- Lancaster Intelligent, Robotic and Autonomous Systems Centre
- LIRA - Fundamentals
- Optimisation
- STOR-i Centre for Doctoral Training