Professor Adam Letchford
Head of Department, Professor of Analytics and OptimisationResearch Overview
My research is on Optimisation and its applications. It has two main strands:
- Theory and algorithms for discrete and nonlinear optimisation.
- Applications to vehicle routing, facility location, facility layout, machine scheduling and inventory control.
My research is inter-disciplinary, drawing on Mathematics (e.g., graph theory, combinatorics, linear algebra) and Computer Science (e.g., design and analysis of algorithms, computational complexity theory).
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My Role
- Professor of Analytics and Optimisation
External Roles
- Member of the Mathematical Sciences Subpanel for REF2021 and REF2029
- Fellow of the Operational Research Society (since 2009).
- Member of the EPSRC Peer Review College (since 2006)
- Member of the UKRI Talent Peer Review Panel (since 2018)
- Associate Editor of EURO Journal on Computational Optimization (since 2012)
- Associate Editor of the Open Journal on Mathematical Optimization (since 2018)
Qualifications
- BA (Hons) Linguistics & Psychology, Nottingham, 1989
- MSc Operational Research, Lancaster, 1993
- PhD Management Science, Lancaster, 1997
PhD Supervisions Completed
- Sebastian Cáceres Gelvez (2026) Exact and heuristic approaches to flowshop scheduling
- Matt Randall (2024) Heuristics for dynamic routing and slot offering
- Congzheng (Joshua) Liu (2023) Prediction and optimisation in inventory control.
- Thu Huong Dang (2022) Exact and heuristic approaches to arc routing problems.
- M. Hasan Mansoor (2022) Combinatorial optimisation: relaxation and heuristics.
- Georgia Souli (2020) New valid inequalities for knapsack and fixed-charge problems.
- Zhaoyu (Joe) Zhong (2018) Optimal resource allocation in base stations for mobile wireless communications.
- Robert Maidstone (2016) Efficient analysis of complex change-point problems.
- Terry James (2015) Control of multi-class queueing systems with abandonments and adversarial customers.
- Saeideh Nasiri (2014) Vehicle routing on real road networks.
- Franklin Djeumou Fomeni (2014) The quadratic knapsack problem and related problems.
- Sebastian J. Miller (2013) Simple plant location problem: heuristics, algorithms and reductions.
- Konstantinos Kaparis (2008) Knapsack problems: inequalities, separation and heuristics.
- Amar Oukil (2008) Exploiting sparsity in vehicle routing algorithms.
- Daniel .J. Grainger (2008) Contributions to quadratic 0-1 programming.
- Nicholas A. Pearson (2006) Minimum cuts, circuits and tours in planar graphs.
PhD Supervision Interests
From 2026 onwards, I will probably only supervise PhD students who are members of the STOR-i Centre for Doctoral Training. Most of my students work on exact and/or heuristic algorithms for hard optimisation problems. Candidates need to be comfortable with mathematics and computer programming.
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Fellowship awarded competitively
STOR-i Centre for Doctoral Training
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- Centre for Transport & Logistics (CENTRAL)
- DSAIL - Foundations
- Optimisation
- STOR-i Centre for Doctoral Training