Dr Thu Dang

Lecturer in Management Science

Research 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.

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

On matchings, T-joins and arc routing problems
Public Lecture/ Debate/Seminar

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

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Prize (including medals and awards)

Kingman Prize
Other distinction

  • Lancaster Intelligent, Robotic and Autonomous Systems Centre
  • LIRA - Fundamentals
  • Optimisation
  • STOR-i Centre for Doctoral Training