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Mehdi Mrad

Associate Professor

Associate professor

كلية الهندسة
Department of Industrial Engineering College Of Engineering King Saud University Room #2A/128/2; Building #3 PO BOX 800 Riyadh 11421 KSA

introduction/brief CV

Mehdi Mrad holds a Ph.D. in Operations Research from High Institute of Management, Tunisia, a Master in Operations Research from High Institute of Management, Tunisia and a B.Sc. in Economics (applied statistics) from High Institute of Management, Sousse. 
Mehdi Mrad was an assistant professor in Computer Science at High School of Economic and Commercial Sciences, Tunisia for two years.  In 2007, he was in Computer Science Engineering department at Minho University, Portugal where he spent one year of postdoctoral research. he was also in Masdar institute of Sciences and Technology, Abu Dhabi as a post doc in 2010. Since 2011, he has been working as an assistant professor in the College of Engineering with the Industrial Engineering Department at KSU University.
His primary areas of research are Operations Research and Combinatorial Optimization. His main interest is scheduling, planning , cutting & packing, network design problems and transportation problems.
 

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In this paper, we address a real-world optimization problem; the scheduling of a Bank Information Technologies (IT) staff. This problem can be defined as the process of constructing optimized work…

by Mohamed Labidi, Mehdi Mrad, Anis Gharbi
2014
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In this paper, we address the problem of minimizing the consumed electric energy for a personal rapid transit transportation system, in order to fulfil a planned list of trips, performed by a set…

by Mehdi Mrad, Lotfi Hidri
2014
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We investigate the two-stage guillotine two-dimensional cutting stock problem. This problem commonly

by Mehdi Mrad, Ines Meftahi, Mohamed Haouari
2012

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Operations Analysis II This course includes the following topics: Integer programming; Branch and Bound methods: Cplex programming.  Deterministic dynamic programming; forward…

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Operations Management II Analysis and design of production and inventory control systems;  Production and assembly line balancing; Forecasting of production; Aggregate planning; Material…