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Houyuan Jiang

University Senior Lecturer in Management Science

BSc (Anhui Normal Univ.), MSc (Chinese Academy of Science), PhD (Univ. of New South Wales)

Professional Experience

Dr Jiang carried out a number of consultancy projects for various industry sectors including services, manufacturing and health while he was at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organizations (CSIRO). He is a member of the Institute of Operations Research and Management Science (INFORMS) and the Mathematical Programming Society (MPS).

Previous Appointments

Dr Jiang was a Senior Research Scientist at the Commonwealth Scientific & Industrial Research Organizations (CSIRO) in Australia, where he undertook research in combinatorial optimisation and consultancy in applied operations research and management science. Prior to that, he was a post-doctoral research fellow at the University of Melbourne, and carried out research in continuous optimisation. He also taught mathematics at both undergraduate and graduate levels at the Guizhou University of Technology in China.

Awards and Scholarships

• CSIRO Chairman's Medal, 2000
• Equity and Merit Scholarship Scheme of Australia, 1994

Research Interests

Combinatorial optimisation (network design, resource allocation and staff scheduling); mathematical programming (the development of theories and algorithms); applied operations research and management science (model building and implementations for real world problems such as network design, revenue management and resource allocation).

Houyuan Jiang is a member of the Management Science &Operations research group and the Management Science teaching group.

Selected Publications

Jiang, H. and Qi, L. (1997) "A new nonsmooth equations approach to nonlinear complementarity problems." SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization, 35(1): 178-193

Facchinei, F., Jiang, H. and Qi, L. (1999) "A smoothing method for mathematical programs with equilibrium constraints." Mathematical Programming, 85(1): 107-134

Jiang, H. (1999) "Global convergence analysis of the generalized Newton and Gauss-Newton methods of the Fischer-Burmeister equation for the complementarity problems." Mathematics of Operations Research, 24(3): 529-543

Jiang, H. and Ralph, D. (2000) "Smooth SQP methods for mathematical programs with nonlinear complementarity constraints." SIAM Journal of Optimization, 10(3): 779-808

Ernst, A.T., Jiang, H., Krishnamoorthy, M. and Sier, D. (2004) "Staff scheduling and rostering: a review of applications, methods and models." European Journal of Operational Research, 153(1): 3-27

Ernst, A.T., Jiang, H. and Krishnamoorthy, M. (2006) "Exact solutions to task allocation problems." Management Science, 52(10): 1634-1646

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