This meeting is a strategic event promoted by the Spanish Society of Statistics and Operations Research (SEIO) to create a bond between early-stage researchers (PhD candidates or less than 3 years after PhD) and connect them with senior experts in Statistics and Operations Research.
The fifth edition of SYSORM follows its four successful previous counterparts that were celebrated in Santiago de Compostela (19-21 June 2024), Elche (21-23 September 2022), El Escorial (5-7 June 2019) and Granada (13-15 November 2017).
The scope of SYSORM is to represent and give visibility to the newer generations of talented researchers in Statistics and Operations Research, ranging from methodological to applied research topics, and to foster professional communication between them, both nationally and internationally.
The meeting gathers up to 35 contributed talks by young researchers and four plenary talks, given by two top researchers in the fields of Statistics and two top researchers in Operations Research, to contribute to the students’ training. SYSORM will only have a continuous session where all the participants present the work they are developing.
If you are a young researcher in Statistics and Operations Research, then you have to be at the 5th SYSORM. This meeting is one of the conferences where you will gain the most, both scientifically and socially!

Looking forward to seeing you in Sevilla!

The Scientific and Organizing Committees

Organizers:

• Instituto de Matemáticas de la Universidad de Sevilla (IMUS)
• Sociedad de Estadística e Investigación Operativa (SEIO)

Sponsors:

• Association of European Operational Research Societies (EURO)
• Instituto Flores de Lemus - Universidad Carlos III de Madrid

Christian P. Robert

Christian P. Robert is a Full Professor at CEREMADE, Université Paris-Dauphine (France), and a part-time Professor at the University of Warwick (UK), Department of Statistics. Christian has conducted research mainly in Bayesian statistics, computational statistics, and latent variable models. He is a fellow of various international scientific organizations such as the Royal Statistical Society (RSS), the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS), the International Society for Bayesian Analysis (ISBA), and the American Statistical Association (ASA). He was President of ISBA in 2008. Christian has supervised numerous funded research projects and several Ph.D. theses. Regarding editorial activities, He has served or is serving as associate editor for the Annals of Statistics, Bayesian Analysis, the Journal of the American Statistical Association, Statistical Science, and Sankhya, and he has been the Editor of the Journal of the Royal Statistical Society (Series B, Statistical Methodology) and the deputy editor of Biometrika.. He has published over 200 documents. The h-index and the number of citations rise to 45 and 9,544 in Scopus, or to 80 and 48,367 in Google Scholar (accessed November 6, 2024). He was awarded the prestigious DeGroot Prize for his book “The Bayesian Choice”. Furthermore, he received the 1995 Young Statistician Award from the Société de Statistique de Paris and the 2005 IMS Medallion Lecture Award

María Merino

Maria Merino Maestre is associate Professor in Statistics and Operations Research at University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) and researcher at Basque Center for Applied Mathematics-BCAM. Her expertise includes stochastic and combinatorial optimization, risk management, and applications in industrial, health, and humanitarian sectors. Maria has led four funded research projects and supervised three Ph.D. theses, with two more in progress. Her publication impact includes 47 papers, an h-index of 11 with 327 citations on Web of Science, and an h-index of 14 with 820 citations on Google Scholar (accessed November 11, 2024). Her co-authored paper “The Natural Bias of Artificial Instances,” with Imanol Unanue and José A. Lozano, won the Best Student Paper Award in Evolutionary Scheduling and Combinatorial Optimisation at IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC 2023). Maria is a journal reviewer for Computers and Operations Research, European Journal of Operational Research, Expert Systems with Applications, Journal of Heuristics, IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, Omega, among others. Maria’s collaborations emphasize social impact: she works with Basque Public Health and the Hostelry School in Leioa. Active in science dissemination, she has contributed to radio, TV, and the written press. She represents SEIO in the EURO WISDOM Forum and is also part of SEIO’s Women Commission (CMEIO).

Rosa Elvira Lillo Rodríguez

Rosa Elvira Lillo Rodríguez is a Full Professor of Statistics and Operations Research in the Department of Statistics at Carlos III University of Madrid. She has been the director of the Degree in Statistics and Business, the director of the Department of Statistics, and she is currently the director of the uc3m-Santander Big Data Institute (www.ibidat.es). Since 2014, she has been a member of several evaluation committees at the Spanish National Agency for Quality Assessment and Accreditation (ANECA) and at the Spanish State Research Agency (AEI). She is now the director of the ENIA Chair of Artificial Intelligence: AImpulsa uc3m-Universia on Data Economy. The research conducted has a strong multidisciplinary character driven by collaboration with engineers, doctors, and researchers from the fields of business and finance. It provides methodological contributions in various aspects of Statistics and Operations Research, Data Science, and Artificial Intelligence. It has also made contributions in the field of applications motivated by real-world problems arising from collaborations with the business/industrial sector. Rosa E. has supervised 20 theses and has been the main researcher of numerous research projects. According to the Web of Science, Rosa E. has published 121 documents, with an h-index of 19 and 1201 citations (accessed November 5, 2024). According to other databases (accessed November 5, 2024), the h-index and the number of citations rise to 18 and 949 (Scopus) or to 47 and 11530 (Google Scholar). Since 2005, she has received several awards for her teaching and research work, among which she received the Excellence Award for young researchers granted by Banco de Santander in 2012. She is also very committed to outreach activities, with the “Stat Wars” events initiated and promoted by her, which have helped raise awareness of the applications of statistics and data science in society in general and have reached national and international dimensions.

Francisco Saldahna

Francisco Saldanha da Gama is chair of supply chain management at Sheffield University Management School (UK), where he is also the head of the Operations Management and Decision Sciences Research Center. He has conducted research mainly in location theory, supply chain management, logistics, and combinatorial optimization. He is a member of various international scientific organizations such as the EURO Working Group on Location Analysis of which he is one of the past coordinators. Francisco has supervised many funded research projects and 5 Ph.D. theses. Regarding editorial activities, he is the Editor-in-Chief of Computers & Operations Research (since 2016). Moreover, he is a member of the Editorial Board of Algorithms (since 2021), Journal of The Operational Research Society, UK (since 2020), and Operations Research Perspectives (since 2016). According to the Web of Science, he has published 55 documents, with an h-index equal to 28 and 3386 citations (accessed November 5th, 2024). According to other databases (accessed November 5th, 2024), the h-index and the number of citations raise to 30 and 4148 (Scopus) or to 37 and 8185 (Google Scholar). Among his publications, together with Teresa Melo and Stefan Nickel, he has been awarded the EURO prize for the best EJOR review paper (2012) and the Elsevier prize for the EJOR top cited article 2007-2011 (2012), both with the paper entitled "Facility location and supply chain management: a review". Furthermore, he has been awarded the Prize Roger-Charbonneau by HEC Montréal, Quebec, Canada, for the book, G. Laporte, S. Nickel, F. Saldanha-da-Gama (editors), "Location Science", Springer International Publishing, 2nd edition.

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