Rob van der Mei

Biography

Research

My main research activities are in the area of Stochastic Operations Research, at the challenging interface of theory and application. My research interests include emergency response systems, predictive policing, management of road traffic, modeling and scalability analysis of ICT systems, mobility, service logistics, freight logistics, grid computing, revenue management, military operations research, sensor networks, call centers, queueing theory and data analytics. I am a co-founder of the spin-off company Stokhos Emergency Mathematics. Currently, I am also the chair of the European COST project named ‘Autonomous Control for a Reliable Internet of Services’ (ACROSS).

Publications

• Vis, P, Bekker, R, van der Mei, R.D, & Núñez Queija, R. (2020). Heavy-traffic limits for Discriminatory Processor Sharing models with joint batch arrivals. Operations Research Letters, 48(2), 136–141.
• Berkelmans, G.A, van der Mei, R.D, Bhulai, S, Merelle, S, & Gilissen, R. (2020). Demographic risk factors for suicide among youths in the Netherlands. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 17(4). doi:10.3390/ijerph17041182
• Huizing, D, Schäfer, G, van der Mei, R.D, & Bhulai, S. (2020). The median routing problem for simultaneous planning of emergency response and non-emergency jobs. European Journal of Operational Research. doi:10.1016/j.ejor.2020.02.002
• Berkhout, J, Pauwels, E.J.E.M, van der Mei, R.D, Stolze, J, & Broersen, S. (2020). Short-term production scheduling with non-triangular sequence-dependent setup times and shifting production bottlenecks. International Journal of Production Research. doi:10.1080/00207543.2019.1705420
• Zweers, B.G, Bhulai, S, & van der Mei, R.D. (2019). Optimizing pre-processing and relocation moves in the Stochastic Container Relocation Problem. European Journal of Operational Research. doi:10.1016/j.ejor.2019.11.067
• Usanov, D, van de Ven, P.M, & van der Mei, R.D. (2019). Dispatching fire trucks under stochastic driving times. Computers and Operations Research, 114. doi:10.1016/j.cor.2019.104829
• Usanov, D, van de Ven, P.M, & van der Mei, R.D. (2019). Dispatching fire trucks under stochastic driving times. Computers and Operations Research, 114.
• Legemaate, G.A.G, Bhulai, S, & van der Mei, R.D. (2019). Applied urban fire department incident forecasting. In Proceedings of IARIA Data Analytics.
• van Dam, L, Rietstra, S, van der Drift, E, Stams, G.J.J.M, van der Mei, R.D, Mahfoud, M, … Reid, T.G. (2019). Can an emoji a day keep the doctor away? An explorative mixed-methods feasibility study to develop a self-help app for youth with mental health problems. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 10. doi:10.3389/fpsyt.2019.00593
• Mensah, C, Klein, J.G, Bhulai, S, Hoogendoorn, M. (Mark), & van der Mei, R.D. (2019). Detecting fraudulent bookings of online travel agencies with unsupervised machine learning. In Advances and Trends in Artificial Intelligence. From Theory to Practice (pp. 334–346). doi:10.1007/978-3-030-22999-3_30

Current projects with external funding

• Ontwikkeling van Data Analytics, Data Science en Crypto Analyse technieken ()
• Impactstudie Noord/Zuidlijn Gemeente Amsterdam
• Samenwerkingsovereenkomst Stichting 113 / CWI - Zelfmoordpreventie
• Advanced Planning & Scheduling (APS)
• Data-driven optimization for a vital elderly care system in the Netherlands (DOLCE VITA)
• Dynamic urban traffic flow management using floating-car, planning, and infrastructure data (Dynafloat)
• Lane Analysis & Route Advisor (LARA)
• Het dectecteren van (corona-gerelateerde) problemen bij de hulpvragers van 113 Zelfmoordpreventie voor en de uitbraak van de coronapandamie in Nederland middels state-of-the-art Natural Language Processing (NLP) (None)
• PPS Engie
• Robust, Effective and Adaptable Ship Designs for Uncertain Transition Paths (READINESS)

Professional activities

• Professor: Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU)
• Principal Investigator: Industrial Liaison Officer CWI
• Chair: Chairman ICT Innovatie Platform, Vitale ICT Infrastructuren
• Committee member: Member Core Team NWA Route 16
• Board Member: Member curatorium Prof.dr.ir. R.E. Kooij at TU Delft (since 2012)
• Committee member: Member of program committee International Conference on Advances in Future Internet
• Committee member: Member TPC of some 30-40 international conferences on performance modeling and analysis, including leading conferences Performance (bi-yearly) and International Teletraffic Congress (yearly), and smaller regular conferences like Networking, INTERNET, eScience, MACOM, HEALTHINF, MAMA, SETM, ACCESS, WWIC, NETC(G)OOP, AFIN, ICIMP, PhyCS, ICDT, SaCCoNeT and others
• Board Member: E-Quality
• Editor: Journal : Transactions on Network Optimization and Control
• Editor: Associate Editor journal Performance Evaluation (until 2011)
• Editor: Associate Editor journal AEUE Journal of Electronics and Communications (till 2011)
• Editor: Associate Editor ACM Transactions on Modeling and Performance Evaluation of Computing Systems (since 2016)

Grants

• COMET-PS NWO Topsector 1PD (2016)
• Telplan Municipality Amsterdam (2016)
• PPS Gemeente Municipality Amsterdam 2PD (2016)
• PPS ministerie van BZK 2PhD (2016)
• PPS CTVrede 1PhD (2016)
• PPS Cofely Cofely/Engie 1PD (2016)
• DYNAMERGE NWO Topsector 1PhD (2016)
• PPS Rovecom 1PhD (2015)
• PPS ING 2PhD+1PD (2015)
• PPS Mindef Ministry of Defense 1PhD (2015)
• DYNAFLOAT NWO Topsector 1PhD (2015)
• PPS TrafficLink TrafficLink 1PhD (2014)
• RIVM (2014)
• REPRO-POL Politie en Wetenschap 1PhD (2013)
• GreenA GreenA (2013)
• GGD Amsterdam (2013)
• ACROSS EU COST EU travel (2013)
• REPRO STW 3PhD+1PD (2012)
• RM for SMEs in hotel Hogeschool den Haag 1PhD (2012)
• Industry and NWO 1PhD (2011)
• TISCALI ICTRegie 1PhD (2011)
• SeQual SenterNovem 1PhD (2010)
• Layered QNs NWO STAR (2010)
• JADE-MM NWO GLANCE (2010)
• RRR Agentschap.nl 1PhD (2009)
• EMS-TP NWO valorization grant 1PhD (2008)
• WFM for Defense Ministry of Defense 1PhD (2007)
• Concurrent Access NWO Casimir 1PhD (2007)
• DP & RM NWO Bonus (2007)

Awards

• Runner-up Huibregtsen-prijs 2014 voor het beste Nederlandse onderzoek dat wetenschappelijk vernieuwend is en dat zicht biedt op een effectieve maatschappelijke toepassing (met Bert Zwart). (2014)