Alexander Engau
Associate Professor; Bachelor of Commerce Program Director; Chair, Management Science & Information Systems Department
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Email: alexander.engau@dal.ca
Phone: 902-494-1797
Fax: 902-494-1107
Mailing Address:
- Multiple criteria decision analysis
 - Optimization
 - Operations research
 - Management science
 - Supply chain management
 - Transportation logistics
 - Mathematical modeling
 - Business analytics
 
Education
- MSc (Kaiserslautern) Management Mathematics
 - PhD (Clemson) Mathematical Sciences
 - PDF (Waterloo) Management Sciences
 
Research Interests
Dr. Engau conducts research and professional work that focus on the development of optimization-based models to support and analyze decisions with respect to tradeoffs, risks and uncertainties. Current applications include logistics, transportation and supply chain management; managerial economics, engineering and finance; and classification and learning in data science and analytics.
Selected Publications
- . Engau, A. Mathematics of Operations Research 42(1)Â (2017)
 - . Wiecek, M.M., Ehrgott, M., Engau, A. In: Greco, S., Ehrgott, M., Figueira, J. (Eds), Multiple Criteria Decision Analysis. New York: Springer (2016)
 - . Engau, A. Optimization and Engineering 16(1), 73-101Â (2015)
 - . Engau, A. In: Anjos, M., Lasserre, J. (Eds), Handbook on Semidefinite, Conic and Polynomial Optimization. Boston: Springer (2012)
 - . Engau, A. In: Zopounidis, C., Pardalos, P. (Eds), Handbook of Multicriteria Analysis. Applied Optimization, vol 103. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer (2010)
 
Selected Awards and Honours
- 2014–2015 Excellence in Teaching (campus winner), University of Colorado Denver, United States
 - 2015Â Invited Visiting Lecturer, African Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Senegal
 - 2010Â Best Paper Award (Interior-Point Warmstarts for Linear and Combinatorial Optimization), MITCAS/Mathematics of Information Technology and Complex Systems, Canada
 - 2007Â Outstanding Doctoral Researcher (campus winner), Clemson University, United States
 - 2001–2005 National Merit Scholarship Foundation, Germany
 
Current Teaching
- MGMT 1501 Statistics for Managers
 - COMM 2501 Statistics for Business
 - COMM 4520 Supply Chain Planning and Execution
 - BUSI 5503 Quantitative Decision Making (MBA)