Professor Kevin Glazebrook
Distinguished Professor in Operations Research, Professor EmeritusResearch Interests
My research centres on questions concerning how complex random systems should be optimally controlled. This work ranges from theoretical analyses of novel methodologies through to more applied work, focussing on practical applications. Application areas of current interest include:
- The optimal management of networks of inventories (eg, retail outlets);
- How manufacturing companies should manage the outsourcing of warranty repair work;
- How customers should be routed for service in complex service systems.
- Cargo revenue management
- The optimal processing of intelligence information
- The optimal deployment of resources for defensive surveillance
I am always keen to welcome new PhD students.
Professional Role
I have been awarded the 2013 Beale Medal of the Operational Research Society for 'a sustained contribution to the theory, philosophy or practice of Operational Research.'
In 2016, I was made a Fellow of INFORMS.
I was awarded the 2017 Harold W Kuhn Award, jointly with co-authors Kyle Lin and Michael Atkinson, for the outstanding paper published in Naval research Logistics over a three year window.
I founded NATCOR, an EPSRC-funded national taught course centre in Operational Research (OR) in 2006. I directed NATCOR for its first six years, including securing follow-up funding from EPSRC in 2011.
For the period 2008-2014 I directed the LANCS Initiative, a £13M Science and Innovation project to expand research capability in foundational OR in the UK. This project is co-funded by EPSRC and Lancaster, Nottingham, Cardiff and Southampton universities.
I chair STOR-i, an EPSRC-funded Centre for Doctoral Training in statistics and OR with substantial industrial engagement. The centre is joint betweeen the Departments of Management Science and Mathematics and Statistics.
I chair the Research Panel of the Operational Research Society.
I am a member of the EPSRC Peer Review College. Until the end of 2016, I served on the EPSRC Mathematical Sciences Strategic Advisory Team until April 2015.
I was a member of sub-panel 10 (mathematical sciences) for REF2014.
I currently serve on the editorial board of Naval Research Logistics.
I am a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Smith Institute.
Career Details
- 1976 PhD, Cambridge University
- 1976-2001: School of Mathematics and Statistics, Newcastle University (appointed lecturer, 1976, promoted senior lecturer 1986, promoted reader 1991, promoted professor 1993)
- 1989-1990 Senior Research Fellow, Department of OR, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California
- 2002-2005: Management School, Edinburgh University. Professor of Management Science
- 2005-: Department of Management Science, Lancaster University, Professor in Statistics and OR (this appointment was joint with the Department of Mathematics and Statistics until 2011)
- 2008-, Distinguished Professsor in OR, Lancaster University
Resilient Emergency Preparedness for Natural Disaster Response through Operational Research (RESPOND-OR)
01/10/2019 → 31/03/2022
Research
Mathematical Models and Algorithms for Allocating Scarce Airport Resources (OR-MASTER)
01/10/2015 → 30/06/2024
Research
CDT: STOR-I (Main Project)
01/10/2010 → 31/03/2018
Other
Index Policies and Search Games
Invited talk
On Radical Extensions to Multi-Armed bandits and to Notions of Indexation
Invited talk
The Operational Research Society (External organisation)
Membership of committee
British Science Festival
Festival/Exhibition/Concert
REF2014 (External organisation)
Member of Advisory Panel
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (External organisation)
Membership of committee
Kuhn Prize Jury (External organisation)
Other Membership
RAE2008 (External organisation)
Member of Advisory Panel
Queueing Systems (Journal)
Editorial activity
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (External organisation)
Other Membership
Naval Research Logistics (Journal)
Editorial activity
Beale Medal
Prize (including medals and awards)
INFORMS Fellow
Prize (including medals and awards)
Kuhn Award 2017
Prize (including medals and awards)
Simulation and Stochastic Modelling, Statistical Artificial Intelligence, STOR-i Centre for Doctoral Training
Statistical Artificial Intelligence, STOR-i Centre for Doctoral Training
Simulation and Stochastic Modelling, STOR-i Centre for Doctoral Training
Optimisation, Simulation and Stochastic Modelling
- Centre for Transport & Logistics (CENTRAL)
- DSI - Foundations
- Gulf One Lancaster Centre for Economic Research
- Optimisation
- Simulation and Stochastic Modelling
- STOR-i Centre for Doctoral Training