Alexander Engau
Associate Professor; Bachelor of Commerce Program Director; Chair, Management Science & Information Systems Department
Related Information
Email: alexander.engau@dal.ca
Phone: 902-494-1797
Fax: 902-494-1107
Mailing Address:
Kenneth C. Rowe Management Building, Room 4092
6100 University Ave, PO Box 15000
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada B3H 4R2
Research Topics:- Multiple criteria decision analysis
- Optimization
- Operations research
- Management science
- Supply chain management
- Transportation logistics
- Mathematical modeling
- Business analytics
Education
- MSc (Kaiserslautern) Management Mathematics
- PhD (Clemson) Mathematical Sciences
- PDF (Waterloo) Management Sciences
Research Interests
Dr. Engau conducts research and professional work that focus on the development of optimization-based models to support and analyze decisions with respect to tradeoffs, risks and uncertainties. Current applications include logistics, transportation and supply chain management; managerial economics, engineering and finance; and classification and learning in data science and analytics.
Selected Publications
- Proper efficiency and tradeoffs in multiple criteria and stochastic optimization. Engau, A. Mathematics of Operations Research 42(1) (2017)
- Continuous multiobjective programming. Wiecek, M.M., Ehrgott, M., Engau, A. In: Greco, S., Ehrgott, M., Figueira, J. (Eds), Multiple Criteria Decision Analysis. New York: Springer (2016)
- Multicriteria modelling and tradeoff analysis for oil load dispatch and hauling operations at Noble Energy. Engau, A. Optimization and Engineering 16(1), 73-101 (2015)
- Recent progress in interior-point methods: Cutting-plane algorithms and warm starts. Engau, A. In: Anjos, M., Lasserre, J. (Eds), Handbook on Semidefinite, Conic and Polynomial Optimization. Boston: Springer (2012)
- Interactive decomposition-coordination methods for complex decision problems. Engau, A. In: Zopounidis, C., Pardalos, P. (Eds), Handbook of Multicriteria Analysis. Applied Optimization, vol 103. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer (2010)
Selected Awards and Honours
- 2014–2015 Excellence in Teaching (campus winner), University of Colorado Denver, United States
- 2015 Invited Visiting Lecturer, African Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Senegal
- 2010 Best Paper Award (Interior-Point Warmstarts for Linear and Combinatorial Optimization), MITCAS/Mathematics of Information Technology and Complex Systems, Canada
- 2007 Outstanding Doctoral Researcher (campus winner), Clemson University, United States
- 2001–2005 National Merit Scholarship Foundation, Germany
Current Teaching
- MGMT 1501 Statistics for Managers
- COMM 2501 Statistics for Business
- COMM 4520 Supply Chain Planning and Execution
- BUSI 5503 Quantitative Decision Making (MBA)