COSMO Faculty
Affiliated Faculty Members
David Avis 
Luc Devroye
Jacques Ferland
Jim Finch
Shie Mannor
Ioannis Psaromiligkos
Saibal Ray
Adjunct Professors
Wynand J. Kleingeld Roussos Dimitrakopoulos Expertise:
COSMO Faculty
Director of the COSMO Stochastic Mine Planning Laboratory
Professor, Department of Mining and Materials Engineering
Canada Research Chair (Tier I) in Sustainable Mineral Resource Development and Optimization Under Uncertainty
- Stochastic modelling and optimization
- Mine optimization and strategic planning
- Reserve/Resource estimation
- Mineral resource management
- Risk assessment and decision making under uncertainty
Affiliated Faculty Members
David Avis
Professor, School of Computer Science
Expertise:
- Discrete optimization
- Mixed-integer programming
- Polyhedral computation with applications to multi-objective optimization
Luc Devroye
Professor, School of Computer Science
Expertise:
- Applications of probability theory and probabilistic methods to computer science
- Expected-time analysis of algorithms and data structures
- Nonparametric estimation of densities and regression functions
Jacques Ferland
Professor, University of Montreal
Expertise:
- Mathematical programming
- Heuristic methods
- Combinatorial programming
- Scheduling applications
Jim Finch
Industry Professor of Mineral Processing
Research interests:
- Aggregation behaviour of mineral suspensions
- Characterizing flotation frothers
- Gas dispersion properties in flotation systems
- Sensors to measure gas dispersion systems
- Resource recovery from waste streams
- Geometallurgy
Shie Mannor
Department of Electrical Engineering at the Technion, Technion Machine Learning Center and Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, McGill University.
Expertise:
- Decision making under uncertainty
- Stochastic and robust optimization
- Statistical machine learning (prediction) and reinforcement learning
- Game theory
- Networks
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Ioannis Psaromiligkos
Associate Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, McGill University.
Research interests:
- Wireless communications
- Adaptive interference suppression
- Parameter estimation for DS/CDMA systems
- Performance evaluation of wireless communications systems
- Smart antennas and joint space-time processing
Saibal Ray
Associate Professor, Operations Management Area
Desautels Faculty Scholar
Director, PhD Program
Co-Director, Master in Manufacturing Management (MMM) Program
Adjunct Faculty
Wynand J. Kleingeld
Former Group Manager, Mineral Resource Management R & D Group, Great Britain