2020 Daniel H. Wagner Finalist In accordance with the emerging global sustainability goals, the Dutch government declared in 2016 that all diesel transit bus networks should be electrified by 2025. Since then, our research team from Rotterdam School of Management has been collaborating with RET,...

2020 Daniel H. Wagner Prize Winner We worked with an agribusiness firm to develop new mathematical algorithms to manage the firm’s annual $1 Billion portfolio of more than 200 seeds offered to farmers in the continental U.S. The algorithms included, (i) optimization-development to deduce probabil...

2020 Daniel H. Wagner Finalist The Personal Power Zone (PPZ) product manages the spatial distribution of drivers to keep Lyft’s service levels high. There are two components to this work: (1) an "escrow mechanism" that tracks cash deposits and expenditure of account balances specific to...

2020 Daniel H. Wagner Finalist Birchbox is an innovator in the Internet box subscription business. A core operational issue is to determine the right number of configurations of boxes that would meet the needs of their diverse subscriber base. Gurobi was taking close to 2 days to find good soluti...

2020 Daniel H. Wagner Finalist We develop an integer programming approach to schedule the main professional soccer league of Argentina. Among many other criteria, our approach aims at ensuring sporting fairness, both in terms of distances travelled by all teams, and alternating the home-away stat...