Past Research Staff | COSMO

Carlos Esteves Teixeira

Research Fellow
Ph.D. (Materials Engineering), 2016, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil
M.Sc (Materials Engineering), 2013, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil
B.Eng (Mining Engineering), 2011, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil

Elena Tamayo

Research Fellow
PhD (Applied Mathematics), 2013, Polytechnic University of Catalonia (Barcelona-TECH), Spain
MSc (Applied Mathematics), 2009, Polytechnic University of Catalonia (Barcelona-TECH), Spain
BSc (Mathematics), 2008, Polytechnic University of Catalonia (Barcelona-TECH), Spain

Current Position:

Subsurface flow and transport modeler, British Geological Survey, Keyworth, Nottingham (UK)

Ryan Goodfellow

Research Fellow
PhD (Mining and Materials Engineering), 2014, McGill University, Canada
BEng (Mining Engineering), 2009, McGill University, Canada

Current Position:

Technical Specialist – Mine Optimization at Newmont Mining Corporation

Mohammad Waqar Ali Asad

Research Associate
PhD in Mining and Earth Systems Eng., Colorado School of Mines, USA, 2001
M.Sc. in Mining Eng., Colorado School of Mines, Golden, Colorado, USA, 1997
B.Sc. in Mining Eng., NWFP Univ. of ET (NWFP UET), Pakistan, 1993

Current Position:

Senior Lecturer, Department of Mining Engineering, Western Australian School of Mines, Kalgoorlie Campus, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Curtin University

Ilnur Minniakhmetov

Research Fellow
Ph.D. (Applied Mathematics and Computational Physics), 2013, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (State University) (MIPT), Russia
M.Sc. (Applied Physics and Mathematics), 2010, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (State University) (MIPT), Russia
B.Sc. (Applied Physics and Mathematics), 2008, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (State University) (MIPT), Russia

Current Position:

Principal Geoscientist Data & Numeric Modelling, BHP, Perth, Australia.

Cosmin Paduraru

Research Fellow 2013-2016
Ph.D. (Computer Science), 2013, McGill University, Canada
M.Sc. (Computer Science), 2007, University of Alberta, Canada
B.Sc. (Computer Science), 2003, University of Bucharest, Romania

Current Position:

Research Engineer at Google DeepMind

Ray (Jian) Zhang

Research Fellow
Ph.D. (Industrial Engineering), 2013, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada
M.Sc. (Management Science and Engineering), 2007, Northeastern University, Shenyang, China
B.Admin. (Management Information System), 2005, Northeastern University, Shenyang, China

Current Position:

Assistant Professor of Business Technology Management, University of Calgary

Jongik Byun

Research Associate 2011-2012
Ph.D. (Industrial Engineering), 2011, KAIST, Republic of Korea
MS.c. (Industrial Engineering), 2000, KAIST, Republic of Korea
BS.c. (Physics & Industrial Engineering), 1998, KAIST, Republic of Korea

Current Position:

Manager, Supply Chain Management Team, LG Display, Korea

Snehamoy Chatterjee

Research Associate 2008-2010
Ph.D. (Geostatistics and vision-based quality control of minerals), 2007, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur, India
M. Eng. (Mining Engineering), 2002, Bengal Engineering and Science University, India
B. Eng. (Mining Engineering), 2000, Bengal Engineering and Science University, India

Current Position:

Assistant Professor of Mining and Geological Engineering, Department of Geological and Mining Engineering and Sciences, Michigan Technological University

Ayoub Insa Correa

Research Associate 2012-2013
Ph.D. (Mathematics of Engineering – Operations Research), 2005, École Polytechnique de Montreal, Canada
Advanced degree (Applied Mathematics – Mathematical Optimization), 1997, Cheikh Anta Diop Uiversity of Dakar, Senegal
M. Sc. (Applied Mathematics – Mathematical Optimization), 1995, Cheikh Anta Diop Uiversity of Dakar, Senegal

Current Position:

Associate Professor in Applied Mathematics at the Unit of Education and Research in Engineering Sciences, University of Thiès, Thiès, Senegal (West africa)

Erwan Gloaguen

Research Associate 2005 – 2007
PhD (Geostatistics & Geophysics), 2004, Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal, Canada
Assistant Professor, Centre eau-terre-environnement de l’Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS)

Current Position:

Assistant Professor, Centre eau-terre-environnement de l’Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS)

Arman C. Kizilkale

Research Associate 2012
PhD (Electrical Engineering), 2012, McGill University, Canada
MSc (Electrical Engineering), 2005, University of Michigan, USA
BSc (Telecommunications Engineering), 2004, Sabanci University, Turkey

Current Position:

Postdoctoral Fellow, École Polytechnique de Montréal, Canada

Xiaochun Luo

Research Associate 2011-2013
Ph.D. (Mining Engineering – Geostatistics), 1998, McGill University, Canada
MSc. (Applied Mathematics), 1986, Chengdu University of Technology, China
BSc. (Applied Mathematics), 1982, Chengdu University of Technology, China

Current Position:

Senior scientific programmer, Mira Geoscience Inc, Montreal, Canada

David Francisco Machuca Mory

Research Associate 2010-2013
Ph.D. (Mining Engineering – Geostatistics), 2010, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
M.Eng. (Geostatistics), 2002, MINES ParisTech, Fontainebleau, France
B.Sc. (Mining Engineering), 1999, Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru, Lima, Peru

Current Position:

SRK Consulting in Toronto

Hussein Mustapha

Research Associate 2007-2010
Certificate in Applied Mathematics, 2007, Ministry of Research, France
PhD (Computer Sciences), 2005, Rennes University, France
MSc (Applied Mathematics), 2002, Grenoble University, France
BSc (Pure Mathematics), 2001, Lebanese University, Lebanon

Sabry A. Abdel Sabour

Research Associate 2006-2010
Sr. Financial Analyst, AMEC Americas Ltd. Canada
PhD (Mineral Economics), 2000, Assiut University, Egypt
MSc (Mining Engineering), 1996, Assiut University, Egypt
BSc (Mining Engineering), 1991, Assiut University, Egypt

Current Position:

Assistant Professor of Mining Engineering, Department of Mining and Geological Engineering, University of Alaska Fairbanks

Erkan Topal

Research Associate 2005
Assistant Professor, Dept. of Mining Engineering, University of Queensland
PhD, (Mine planning and optimization), 2002, Colorado School of Mines, USA

Current Position:

Associate Professor, Head of Mining Engineering, WA School of Mines, Faculty of Science & Engineering, Curtin University, Australia

K. Gerald van den Boogaart

Research Associate 2007-2008
Dr. rer. nat., 2001, TU Bergakademie Freiberg, Germany
Dipl. Math., 1998, University of Augsburg, Germany
Professor, Institute for Stochastics, TU Freiburg

Current Position:

Professor, Institut fuer Stochastic, Germany

Evan DeCorte

Research Fellow
PhD in Applied Mathematics (Combinatorial Optimization), 2015, TU Delft, the Netherlands
MSc in Mathematics, 2008, University of Toronto
BSc in Mathematics, 2007, Queen’s University

Current Position:

Software Engineer, Google

Ángel Prior

Research Fellow
Ph.D. (Mining Engineering), 2020, TU Bergakademie Freiberg, Germany
M.Sc. (Applied Mathematics), 2014, Technical University of Madrid / Complutense University Madrid, Spain
M.Sc. (Geological Engineering), 2013, Complutense University Madrid, Spain
B.Eng. (Geological Engineering), 2013, Copmlutense University Madrid, Spain

Research Interests:

Data assimilation: Kalman filtering, particle filters, etc.
High order geostatistics
Compositional data analysis

Work Experience:

Data Modeler & Statistical Analyst, Bayes Forecast, Spain (July 2014 – April 2015)
Internship, Non-conventional Reservoirs Department, Repsol, Madrid (July 2012 – September 2012 / February 2013 – May 2013)

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Fernanda Del Castillo

Research Fellow
Ph.D. (Mining Engineering), 2018, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
M.Eng (Mining Engineering), 2014, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
M.Sc (Industrial Engineering), 2012, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Santiago, Chile
B.Eng (Industrial Mining Engineering), 2010, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Santiago, Chile

Current Position:

Senior Associate at PwC, Montreal, QC, Canada

Yassine Yaakoubi

Research Fellow, 2020-2024
Ph.D. (Applied Mathematics), 2019, Polytechnique Montréal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
M.Sc. (Applied Mathematics), 2017, Institut polytechnique de Grenoble, Grenoble, France
B.Sc. (Physics), 2015, Insitut polytechnique de Grenoble, Grenoble, France
yassine.yaakoubi@mcgill.ca

Research Interests:

Combinatorial optimization, heuristics and meta-heuristics, scheduling applications
Combination of machine learning methods and mathematical programming to solve large combinatorial optimization problems
Deep learning, structured prediction, reinforcement learning

Work Experience:

Group For Research in Decision Analysis (GERAD) & Montreal Institute for Learning Algorithms (MILA), Montreal, Canada, doctorate and master research, 2017-2019
Laboratory of Sciences for Design, Optimization and Production in Grenoble (G-SCOP), Grenoble, France, Internship, 2015-2016
Grenoble Images Speech Signal and Contrl (GIPSA-lab), Grenoble, France, 2014-2015

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Julien Keutchayan

Research Associate 2019-2021
Ph.D. (Applied Mathematics), 2018, Polytechnique Montréal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
M.Sc. (Applied Mathematics), 2015, Polytechnique Montréal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
M.Sc. (Physics), 2013, Polytechnique Paris, Paris, France
B.Sc. (Physics), 2010, Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, France

Current Position:

Lead Data Scientist at Qohash, Quebec, QC, Canada

Athénaïs Gautier

Research Fellow
Ph.D. (Statistics), University of Bern (Bern, Switzerland), Nov. 2018 – June 2023
M.Sc. (Applied Mathematics), University Paris Dauphine (Paris, France), 2017 – 2018
M.Eng. (Data Sciences and Statistics), Ecole des Mines de Saint-Etienne, 2015 – 2018
Preparatory classes, Lycée Henri IV (Paris, France), 2013 – 2015

Research interests

Uncertainty quantification
Stochastic emulation and stochastic simulation in spatial systems, Kernel methods, random fields
Non parametric modelling and estimation of conditional probability distributions

Past work experience

Institute of statistics and actuarial sciences, University of Bern (Bern, Switzerland): Research and Teaching assistant 2018-2023
Idiap Research Institute (Martigny, Switzerland): Research and Teaching assistant (shared affiliation with University of Bern), 2018-2020
Idiap Research Institute (Martigny, Switzerland): Research intern, 2018
ELM Leblanc SAS (Drancy, France): Data engineer intern, Summer 2017

athenais.gautier@mcgill.ca