El Mehdi
Er Raqabi
Assistant Professor
Department of Operations and Decision Systems
FSA ULaval
Pavillon Palasis-Prince
Local 2421
Fields of Interest and Research
- Mathematical optimization
- Machine learning
- Operations and supply chain management
- Mathematical operations research
- Programming in operational research (including linear and nonlinear programming)
- Combinatorial and network optimization (including programming and metaheuristics)
- Planning and scheduling in artificial intelligence
- Operational research, n.e.c.
- Optimization and data analytics algorithms and systems
- Optimization under uncertainty (including stochastic and robust optimization)
- Industrial design in manufacturing engineering
- Production systems engineering
- Data-driven estimation, optimization, and control
- Mathematical modelling and simulation
- Public transportation engineering
- Intelligent transport systems
- Stochastic models (including queueing and simulation)
- Applied mathematics, n.e.c.
- Inventory and distribution logistics
- Transportation demand modelling
- Transport planning
Education
- Doctorate of Operations research (Ph. D.), Polytechnique Montréal
- Master of Business Administration (MBA), International University of Japan
- Master of Engineering, Industrial Engineering (MEng), Mohammadia School of Engineering
Publications
Articles
- Er Raqabi, E. M., Bani, A., Morabit, M., Blondin Massé, A., Besner, A., Fournier, J., & El Hallaoui, I. (2025). A decomposition matheuristic for the transient stability constrained unit commitment at Hydro-Quebec. IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, 1-11. DOI : 10.1109/TPWRS.2025.3599746
- Er Raqabi, E. M., Beljadid, A., Bennouna, M. A., Bennouna, R., Boussaadi, L., Nizar, E. H., El Hallaoui, I., Fender, M., Jamali, M. A., Si Hammou, N., & Soumis, F. (2025). OCP Optimizes its supply chain for Africa. INFORS Journal on Applied Analytics, 55(3), 1-20. DOI : 10.1287/inte.2023.0073
- Er Raqabi, E. M., Wu, Y., El Hallaoui, I., & Soumis, F. (2024). Towards resilience: Primal large-scale re-optimization. Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, 192, 103819. DOI : 10.1016/j.tre.2024.103819
- Himmich, I., Er Raqabi, E. M., El Hachemi, N., El Hallaoui, I., Metrane, A., & Soumis, F. (2023). MPILS: An automatic tuner for MILP solvers. Computers & Operations Research, 159, 106344. DOI : 10.1016/j.cor.2023.106344
- Er Raqabi, E. M., & Li, W. (2023). An electric vehicle transitioning framework for public fleet planning. Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment, 118, 103732. DOI : 10.1016/j.trd.2023.103732
- Er Raqabi, E. M., Himmich, I., El Hachemi, N., El Hallaoui, I., & Soumis, F. (2023). Incremental LNS framework for integrated production, inventory, and vessel scheduling: Application to a global supply chain. Omega, 116, 102821. DOI : 10.1016/j.omega.2022.102821
Communications in a Conference Without Proceedings
- Er Raqabi, E. M. (2024). OCP optimizes its supply chain for Africa and the world. EURO Excellence in Practice Award, Copenhague, Denmark.
- Er Raqabi, E. M. (2024). OCP optimizes its supply chain for Africa and the world. GERAD day, Montréal, Canada.
- Er Raqabi, E. M. (2024). The primal benders decomposition. 33rd European Conference on Operational Research, Copenhague, Denmark.
- Er Raqabi, E. M. (2024). Towards resilience: Primal large-scale re-optimization. Journée de l'optimisation (JOPT), Montréal, Canada.
- Er Raqabi, E. M. (2024). An efficient decomposition matheuristic for the unit commitment problem with power stability constraints. 38th Annual Conference of the Belgian Operational Research Society, Antwerp, Belgium.
- Er Raqabi, E. M. (2023). OCP optimizes its supply chain for Africa. Seminar "Meet a GERAD Researcher!", Montréal, Canada.
- Er Raqabi, E. M. (2023). An electric vehicle migration framework for public fleet planning. International University of Japan, Niigata, Japan.
- Er Raqabi, E. M. (2023). Modeling for strategic supply chain management. Griffith University Business School, Queensland, Australia.
- Er Raqabi, E. M. (2022). MPILS: An automatic tuner for MILP solvers. CORS/INFORMS International Conference, Vancouver, Canada.
- Er Raqabi, E. M. (2022). MPILS: An automatic tuner for MILP solvers. Journée de l'optimisation (JOPT), Montréal, Canada.
- Er Raqabi, E. M. (2019). Design of electric vehicle charging stations. SLACJ 6th International Conference on Indo-Pacific Studies, Niigata, Japan.
- Er Raqabi, E. M. (2019). Achieving traceability within supply chains through data science. International Conference On Advances In Cloud Computing, Data Science And Big Data Analytics, Tokyo, Japan.
Thesis and Dissertation
- Er Raqabi, E. M. (2024). Thèse de doctorat, Primal methods for very large-scale optimization, Polytechnique de Montréal, https://publications.polymtl.ca/61691/ [ Montréal, Canada].
- Er Raqabi, E. M. (2019). Thèse de doctorat, Design of Electric Vehicles Charging Station Network, Université internationale du Japon [ Japan].