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Contact

  • El Mehdi Er Raqabi LinkedIn
  • El Mehdi Er Raqabi Google Scholar

Education

  • Ph.D. Applied Mathematics (2024), Polytechnique Montreal
  • MBA Operations & Supply Chain Management (2019), International University of Japan
  • M.Eng. Industrial Engineering (2016), Ecole Mohammadia d’Ingénieurs

About

Mehdi is an Assistant Professor in Operations and Decision Systems at the Faculty of Business Administration (FSA OSD), Laval University, an Associated Member of the Groupe d’Études et de Recherche en Analyse des Décisions (GERAD), and a Member of the Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche sur les Réseaux d’Entreprise, la Logistique et le Transport (CIRRELT). He was previously a Postdoctoral Fellow at the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial & Systems Engineering (ISyE) of Georgia Institute of Technology and the NSF AI Research Institute for Advances in Optimization (AI4OPT), working with Professor Pascal Van Hentenryck.

Awards and Honors

  • GERAD 2024 Best Thesis Competition, GERAD, 2025
  • MAGI 2024 Best Thesis Prize, Polytechnique Montreal, 2025
  • EURO Excellence in Practice Award, Winner, EURO, 2024
  • IFORS Prize for OR in Development, Finalist, IFORS, 2023
  • FRQNT Ph.D. Merit Scholarship, FRQNT, 2021
  • IVADO Ph.D. Excellence Scholarship, IVADO, 2021
  • Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship, Finalist, Government of Canada, 2021
  • James Brian Quinn Scholar, MBA Valedictorian, 2019
  • First Year Special Recognition, Top 1% MBA Batch, 2018
  • ABE Initiative Scholarship, Japan International Cooperation Agency, 2017