Faculty and Staff

Tallys Yunes
Assistant Professor, Management Science
(305) 284-5107
405 Kosar-Epstein
tallys@miami.edu
Research Interests
- Applications of Operations Research techniques to a variety of practical problems, such as: product line simplification, scheduling (sports, crews, machines), computational geometry, transportation, location, and operations management in general.
- Integration of optimization techniques.
- Integer Programming and Constraint Programming.
- Metaheuristics and large neighborhood search.
Selected Publications
- "Software Tools Supporting Integration" to appear in Hybrid Optimization: the 10 years of CP-AI-OR, M. Milano and P. Van Hentenryck (eds.), Springer, 2010.
- "An Integrated Solver for Optimization Problems" (with I. D. Aron and J. N. Hooker). Operations Research (forthcoming).
- "Finding Efficient Product Portfolios at John Deere and Company" (with D. Napolitano, A. Scheller-Wolf and S. Tayur). Operations Research 55(4), 615-629, 2007.
- "Hybrid Column Generation Approaches for Urban Transit Crew Management Problems" (with A. V. Moura and C. C. de Souza). Transportation Science 39(2), 273-288, 2005.
- "SIMPL: A System for Integrating Optimization Techniques" (with I. D. Aron and J. N. Hooker). Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3011, 21-36, CP-AI-OR 2004.
- "On the Sum Constraint: Relaxations and Applications", Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2470, 80-92, CP 2002.
- For an up-to-date list of publications and working papers see my curriculum vitae.
Teaching & Professional Experience
- Consulting with Caterpillar Inc. and John Deere & Co. (through SmartOps Corp.) and with Major League Baseball (through the Sports Scheduling Group).
- University of Miami, Department of Management Science, 8/2005 - present.
- Instructor in the MBA program, Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University, Summer and Fall 2004.
- Teaching Fellow, Eberly Center for Teaching Excellence, Carnegie Mellon University, 2002-2005.
- Teaching Assistant for both MBA and PhD programs (23 times), Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University, 2001-2005.
Degrees
- PhD in Operations Research, Carnegie Mellon University.
- MS in Operations Research, Carnegie Mellon University.
- MS in Computer Science, UNICAMP, Brazil.
- BS in Computer Engineering, UNICAMP, Brazil.
Specialties
- Operations Research
- Combinatorial Optimization
