Personal profile
Biography
Prof. Roberto Rossi holds a B.Eng. and a M.Eng. from the University of Bologna (Italy), and a Ph.D. from the University College Cork (Ireland). He is the Chair in Uncertainty Modelling at the University of Edinburgh (UK) and Fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy.
Research Interests
His research focuses on automated reasoning: he develops systems that aim to be robust and scalable in such a way as to enable computers to act intelligently in increasingly complex real world settings and in uncertain environments.
He conducts cross-disciplinary methodological as well as applied research in decision making under uncertainty, artificial intelligence, operational research and supply chain management.
He has over fifty intellectual contributions in flagship international journals and conference proceedings; I have attracted research council as well as industry funding in excess of 1 million EUR.
Teaching
CMSE11213 - Project Management in Business Analysis*
* course organizer
Research students
Damien (Anh) Vo (2025 ... present)
Ciaran O'Connor, visiting from University College Cork, Ireland (3 months, 2024)
Xiyuan Ma, University of Edinburgh (2023)
Carolina Toczycka, University of Edinburgh (PGCert, 2023)
Mengyuan Xiang, University of Edinburgh (2019)
Chen Zhen, visiting from Behihang University, China (12 months, 2016/17)
Alejandro G. Alcoba, visiting from University of Malaga, Spain (3 months, 2015)
Willem Rijpkema, Wageningen University (2014)
Websites
Administrative Roles
Head of the Management Science and Business Economics Group (2021-2025)
School Executive Board Member (2017 - 2025)
College Postgraduate Appeal Committee Member (2018 - 2020)
Director of PG Programmes (2017 - 2020)
Member of the university team of programme reviewers (2013 - 2020)
Convener of PG Board of Examiners (2015 - 2017)
Management Science and Business Economics Research Champion (2015 - 2017)
Non-Professorial Representative to the Senatus (1 August 2013 - 31 July 2016)
PhD Admission Coordinator for Management Science and Business Economics (2013 -2016)
Research Seminar Coordinator (2013 -2016)
Education/Academic qualification
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Constraint Programming for Optimization Under Uncertainty in Stochastic Inventory Control, University College Cork
Award Date: 1 Jan 2008
Master of Engineering, Demand uncertainty in supply chains. Domain reduction techniques for a constraint programming model., University of Bologna
Award Date: 1 Jan 2005
Bachelor of Engineering, Design and implementation of a software component for planning degree commissions., University of Bologna
Award Date: 1 Jan 2002
External positions
External Examiner, Durham University
Sept 2025 → …
External Examiner, University of Strathclyde
Sept 2016 → Aug 2021
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Wageningen University & Research
1 Jan 2012 → 31 Dec 2013
Keywords
- H Social Sciences (General)
- Supply Chain Management
- Inventory Control
- Production Planning
- QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science
- Artificial Intelligence
- Constraint Programming
- Operational Research
- Stochastic programming
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Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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On the stochastic inventory problem under order capacity constraints
Rossi, R., Chen, Z. & Tarim, S. A., 16 Jan 2024, In: European Journal of Operational Research. 312, 2, p. 541-555 15 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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The stochastic inventory routing problem on electric roads
Gutierrez-Alcoba, A., Rossi, R., Martin-Barragan, B. & Embley, T., 1 Oct 2023, In: European Journal of Operational Research. 310, 1, p. 156-167 12 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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A mathematical programming-based solution method for the nonstationary inventory problem under correlated demand
Xiang, M., Rossi, R., Martin-Barragan, B. & Armagan Tarim, S., 16 Jan 2023, In: European Journal of Operational Research. 304, 2, p. 515-524Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Approximations for non-stationary stochastic lot-sizing under (s,Q)-type policy
Ma, X., Rossi, R. & Archibald, T. W., 16 Apr 2022, In: European Journal of Operational Research. 298, 2, p. 573-584 12 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Computing optimal (R,s,S) Policy Parameters by a hybrid of branch-and-bound and stochastic dynamic programming
Visentin, A., Prestwich, S., Rossi, R. & Tarim, S. A., 1 Oct 2021, In: European Journal of Operational Research. 294, 1, p. 91-99 9 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Activities
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26th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Rossi, R. (Member of programme committee)
2017Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference
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EPSRC, Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (External organisation)
Rossi, R. (Member)
3 Nov 2016 → Aug 2019Activity: Membership types › Membership of peer review panel or committee
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The ‘ReCCEL’ toolbox: a response to carbon reduction challenges in the UK construction industry
Rossi, R. (Speaker)
12 Oct 2016Activity: Academic talk or presentation types › Invited talk
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16th International Conference on Operations Research and Enterprise Systems
Rossi, R. (Member of programme committee)
Feb 2027Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference
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The 24th Conference of the International Federation of Operational Research Societies
Rossi, R. (Chair)
Jul 2026Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference
Prizes
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EPSRC Peer Review Outstanding Contribution Recognition Award
Rossi, R. (Recipient), May 2021
Prize: Other distinctions
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Strategic Workforce Planning
Rossi, R. (Principal Investigator) & Murphy, S. (Principal Investigator)
1/11/25 → …
Project: Consultancy
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TRAIN@Ed: Transnational Research and Innovation Network at Edinburgh
Gorjanc, G. (Principal Investigator), Bell, C. (Co-investigator), Duncan, A. (Co-investigator), Farrington, S. (Co-investigator), Florian, L. (Co-investigator), Forde, M. (Co-investigator), Hickey, J. (Co-investigator), Lacka, E. (Co-investigator), Ma, T. (Co-investigator), Mcneill, G. (Co-investigator), Medina-Lopez, E. (Co-investigator), Rosser, S. (Co-investigator), Rossi, R. (Co-investigator), Sabanis, S. (Co-investigator), Szpruch, L. (Co-investigator), Tenesa, A. (Co-investigator), Wake, D. (Co-investigator), Williamson, B. (Co-investigator) & Yang, Y. (Co-investigator)
EU government bodies, Non-EU industry, commerce and public corporations
1/11/19 → 19/04/23
Project: Research
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Construction Analytics train@ed Fellowship
Rossi, R. (Principal Investigator)
UK industry, commerce and public corporations
1/11/19 → 31/10/22
Project: Research
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Construction Analytics train@ed Fellowship
Rossi, R. (Principal Investigator)
1/11/19 → 31/10/22
Project: Research
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Construction Analytics Train@ED Fellowship
Rossi, R. (Principal Investigator)
1/11/19 → 30/11/23
Project: Research
Datasets
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Dynamic Bowser Routing Problem Electronic Addendum
Rossi, R. (Creator), GitHub, 2016
DOI: 10.7488/2eac2b15-60c2-4437-97a5-5e938c628615, https://github.com/gwr3n/dbrp
Dataset
Press/Media
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How Costain, VINCI used lookahead planning to save £990K
Rossi, R. & Toczycka, C.
1/06/21
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Project or Organisational News Item
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