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Dr Ozren Despic

Dr Ozren Despic

Lecturer

Operations & Information Management Group

Qualifications

  • PhD  Doctor of Philosophy in Industrial Engineering, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.
  • 1992 BASc  Bachelor of Applied Science in Civil Engineering, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada

Background

  • 2003 Travelled 6 months through the Far East - Russia, China, Tibet, Nepal & India
  • 2002-2003 Worked as a Founding Scientific Advisor in Symbio, Toronto, Canada - Symbio is a start-up company in IT driven genomic research
  • 1997 - 2002 Worked as a Research Assistant at the Centre for Management and Technology (CMTE), University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
  • 1997 Worked as a Research Associate at ENSIMEV - Université de Valenciennes, Valenciennes, France
  • 1996 - 1997 Worked as a Research Associate in Facility for Intelligent Decision Support (FIDS), University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada (currently FIDS is located at the University of Western Ontario, London, Canada)
  • 1994 - 1995 Worked as a Designer and Mathematical Consultant in AKI

Research Interests and Consultancy                    

  • Performance Evaluation
  • Approximate Reasoning
  • Soft Decision Analysis
  • Machine Learning
  • Optimisation

Teaching

  • BN2231(UG) Decision Support Systems
  • BN2290 (UG) - Operational Research 1
  • BN1105 (UG) Quantitative Techniques
  • BNM701(PG) Operations research methods