Chair holder

Professor
Department of Computer Science and Operations Research
Pav. PAVILLON ANDRE-AISENSTADT \ bureau 3385 CP 6128 Succursale Centre-Ville, Montréal QC H3C 3J7 Phone: 514-343-6111 #47662 emma (dot) frejinger (at) umontreal (dot) ca Emma Frejinger is associate professor at the Department of Computer Science and Operations Research at the University of Montreal, member of CIRRELT and holder of the CN Chair in Optimization of Railway Operations. She holds a Ph.D. in mathematics awarded by the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland. Her areas of expertise include both transportation demand prediction and optimization of transportation networks. More precisely, her current major projects are related to the opimization of railway operations and combine operations research and data science methodologies. Her students and herself have won several international awards, including twice the prestigious TSL Dissertation Prize bestowed by the INFORMS Transport Science and Logistics Society. She has realized numerous projets in collaboration with public and private actors. In 2017, the Association québecoise des transports (AQTr) awarded the excellence prize in the freight transportation category to a collaborative project between CardoM and CIRRELT, for which she was lead of research. Post-docs et research associates

Research associate (part time)
CIRRELT

Post-doc since June 2018
Topic: Locomotive routing problems
Supervisor: Jean-François Cordeau, co-supervisor: Emma Frejinger

Post-doc since June 2017
Topic: Locomotive assignment and routing problems
Supervisor: Emma Frejinger, co-supervisor: Jean-François Cordeau

Ph.D. student since August 2018
Topic: Revenue management and service network design for railway freight transportation
Department of Computer Science and Operations Research,
University of Montreal.
Director: Emma Frejinger

Ph.D. student since September 2016
Topic: Transport demand modelling
Department of Mathematical and Industrial Engineering,
École Polytechnique de Montréal.
Director: Gilles Savard, co-director: Emma Frejinger

Ph.D. student since September 2017
Topic: Discrete optimization and machine learning
MILA, Department of Computer Science and Operations Research,
University of Montreal.
Director: Emma Frejinger, co-director: Simon Lacoste-Julien

Ph.D. student since January 2018
Topic: Load planning for rail freight transportation
Department of Computer Science and Operations Research,
University of Montreal.
Director: Emma Frejinger, co-director: Bernard Gendron

Ph.D. student since November 2018
Topic: Locomotive assignment and machine learning
Department of Computer Science and Operations Research,
University of Montreal.
Director: Emma Frejinger, co-director: Jean-François Cordeau

Ph.D. student since September 2013
Topic: Intermodal freight transport modelling
Department of Computer Science and Operations Research,
University of Montreal.
Director: Emma Frejinger, co-directors: Fabian Bastin and Bernard Gendron

Ph.D. student since May 2015
Topic: Multimodal route choice modelling
Department of Computer Science and Operations Research,
University of Montreal.
Director: Emma Frejinger, co-director: Patrice Marcotte

Master student since September 2017
Topic: Discrete optimization and reinforcement learning
Department of Computer Science and Operations Research,
University of Montreal.
Director: Emma Frejinger

Master student since September 2018
Topic: Locomotive routing problems
Department of Computer Science and Operations Research,
University of Montreal.
Director: Emma Frejinger

Master student since September 2017
Topic: A reinforcement learning approach for generating data on discrete optimization problem instances and solutions
Department of Computer Science and Operations Research,
University of Montreal.
Co-director: Emma Frejinger

Master student since September 2018
Topic: Locomotive assignment problems
Department of Computer Science and Operations Research,
University of Montreal.
Director: Emma Frejinger

Master student since January 2017
Topic: Container loading problems for intermodal freight transportation
Department of Computer Science and Operations Research,
University of Montreal.
Director: Emma Frejinger