1995-1999: Senior staff member at AT&T Labs, USA
1999-2002: Senior researcher and consultant at KPN Research
2002-2004: Senior researcher and consultant at TNO ICT
Since 2003: Distinguished Full Professor at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (part-time)
Since 2004: Senior researcher, Industrial Liaison Officer and Manager R&D at CWI
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).
First prize for logistic innovation Covid-19 vaccination strategy (2021)
Best-paper award, 8th International Conference on Data Analytics (2019)
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)
Professional activities
Professor: Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU)
Principal Investigator: Industrial Liaison Officer CWI
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
