Short bio
In 2020, I received my PhD at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) under the supervision of Prof. Michel Bierlaire (EPFL) and Prof. Shadi Shari Azadeh (Delft University of Technology). My thesis was about the integration of discrete choice models in mixed-integer linear optimization. Before that, I completed a 5-year degree in Mathematics (2013) and a Masters in Logistics, Transportation and Mobility (2015), both from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (Barcelona). In 2021, I joined the Decision Support & Operations Research Group as a senior researcher to work in the Innosuisse project 36157.1 IP-EE on decision-support making towards a more efficient and sustainable waste collection. Since 2022, I am also a lecturer and I teach two master courses on my two major research interests: optimization methods and discrete choice models. In the same year, some other DS&OR members and I joined the Smart Living Lab to conduct research in the context of smart and sustainable transportation and logistics.
Main research interests:
- Discrete choice models
- Mixed-integer linear programming
- Decomposition techniques
- Vehicle routing problems
- Logistics and transportation
Teaching activities
- Master Courses:
- Advanced Mathematical Modeling and Optimization (in English), Fall Semester 2022
- Choice-based Optimization and its Application to Revenue Management (in English), Spring Semester 2023
Selected publications
- M. Pacheco Paneque, M. Bierlaire, B. Gendron and S. Sharif Azadeh. Integrating advanced discrete choice models in mixed integer linear optimization. Transportation Research Part B: Methodological, 146, 26-49 (2021). doi
- L. Montero, M. Pacheco Paneque, J. Barceló, S. Homoceanu and J. Casanovas. Case study on cooperative car data for estimating traffic states in an urban network. Transportation Research 2594(1), 127-137 (2016). doi
- M. Pacheco Paneque, B. Gendron, S. Sharif Azadeh, M. Bierlaire. A Lagrangian decomposition scheme for choice-based optimization. Computers & Operations Research, 148 (2022). doi
Other activities
- PhD mobility award 2017 (August 09, 2017)
- Institution: Doctoral School Civil and Environmental Engineering (EDCE)
- Description: The PhD Mobility Award is given by the doctoral program in Civil and Environmental Engineering (EDCE) to encourage good PhD students within the program to go for an academic visit to an external research institution.
- II Abertis International Research Award (October 14, 2016)
- Institution: International Abertis Chairs Network
- Description: The Abertis International Research Prize in Transportation is awarded among the pool of national winning projects of the International Abertis Chairs Network.
- XIII Abertis Prize for Management of Transportation Infrastructures (May 24, 2016)
- Institution: Abertis-UPC Chair
- Description: The Abertis Prize for research in management of transportation infrastructures is aimed at studies and unpublished research conducted by students at Spanish universities that address various aspects related to the management of transportation infrastructures and services.