Nikola Bešinović

Past Awards

2024
Student Paper Award: First Place
Winning material: Integrated Optimization of Train Makeup Problem and Resource Scheduling in Railway Shunting Yards: A Hybrid MILP-CP Approach with Logic-Based Benders Decomposition
Student Paper Award: Third Place
Winning material: Combining Mixed Integer Programming with Row Generation for Railway Network Capacity Assessment


2021
Student Paper Award: Second Place
Winning material: Solving the Train Unit Shunting Problem using Multi-Agent Deep Reinforcement Learning with Routing Optimization


2015
Student Paper Award: First Place
Winning material: A novel two-stage approach to robust periodic timetabling