Ivana Ljubic

Education

Habilitation in Operations Research, University of Vienna PhD in Computer Science, Vienna University of Technology

Biography

Ivana Ljubic is Academic Director of
ESSEC EMBA
and
ESSEC & Mannheim EMBA
programs.
She teaches Decision Analysis, Optimal Decision Making, Operations Research (OR) and Business Mathematics in ESSEC MSc, PhD and Advanced Master programs. Prior to joining ESSEC in 2015, she was appointed at the University of Vienna. She also worked as Visiting Scholar/Professor at the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland, TU Dortmund, TU Berlin, Dauphine University.

She has carried out consulting studies and industrial contracts for leading telecommunication providers in France and Austria. After completing her PhD in computer science, she also worked for 2 years as Financial Analyst for a Siemens spin-off (fin4cast), focusing on portfolio optimization. Research interests of Ivana Ljubic include combinatorial optimization, optimization under uncertainty, bilevel optimization. She uses tools and methods of mixed integer (non-) linear programming, meta-heuristics and their successful combinations for solving optimization problems with applications in network design, telecommunications, transportation, logistics, routing and bioinformatics. She has published more than 40 articles in leading OR journals, including
Operations Research,
Management Science, Mathematical Programming, INFORMS JOC,
European Journal of Operational Research.
She is member of the Editorial Advisory Board for the journals
European Journal of Operational Research,
Computers & Operations Research, Journal of Global Optimization,
and she is Associate Editor for the journal
Omega. She also served as guest-editor of journals:
European Journal of Operational Research
and
Annals of Operations Research. She currently serves as vice-chair of the
INFORMS Telecommunication and Network Analytics Section. From 2010-2016 she was member of council of the INFORMS Telecommunication Section and from 2006 to 2008 she was member of the executive board of the Austrian OR Society (OEGOR). She has received numerous research grants, including those from the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs (PHC program), Austrian Academy of Sciences (OEAW), Austrian Research Fund (FWF) and European Commission (ERA-NET).
See the
full publication list
including preprints.
See the
Google Scholar Profile. Complete list of
scientific activities.

Research Areas

Areas

Network Design Combinatorial Optimization Optimization under Uncertainty Bilevel Optimization
Biobjective Optimization Mixed Integer (Non-linear) Programming (Meta-)heuristics

Sectors

Design of Telecommunication Networks Smart Cities Facility Location Design of Data and Distribution Networks Bioinformatics Social Networks

On-going Projects

e4-share (Models for Ecological, Economical, Efficient, Electric Car-Sharing), with Uni Wien, ULB and Uni Bolog. http://www.univie.ac.at/e4-share Network Optimization in Bioinformatics and Systems Biology, with Uni Wien (funded by FWF) Multi-Criteria Optimization of FTTx Network, with Uni Wien, ZIB Berlin (funded by FWF, DFG)

Teaching at ESSEC

Decision Analysis, Grand Ecole Program and Master in Data Science & Business Analytics Optmization for Decision Making, Grand Ecole Program

Introduction to Optimization Methods, PhD ProgramBusiness Mathematics & Statistics, Grand Ecole Program

Other Teaching Activities

Networks: Design and Analysis (Vienna University of Technology) Graph Algorithms and Network Flows (Uni Vienna) Operations Research
(Uni Vienna) Business Mathematics
(Uni Vienna)