Bismark Singh

Bismark Singh

Associate Prof. Dr. Dr. habil.
Senior Member, IEEE.
Fellow, Institute of Mathematics & its Applications.
Associate Fellow, The OR Society.

Short CV

Appointments

  • 2024 – Present Associate Professor, School of Mathematical Sciences, University of Southampton, UK
  • 2022 – 2024 Assistant Professor, School of Mathematical Sciences, University of Southampton, UK
  • 2019 – 2022 E14 Researcher, Discrete Mathematics, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany
  • 2016 – 2019 Postdoctoral Researcher, Discrete Optimization, Sandia National Laboratories, US
  • 2017 E13 Researcher, Institute of Operations Research, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
  • 2017 Senior Expert, Stockholm Environment Institute, Tallinn, Estonia
  • 2011 – 2016 Research/Teaching Assistant, Mechanical Engineering and/or Integrative Biology, The University of Texas at Austin, US

External Affiliations

  • 2024 – 2025 Distinguished Research Fellow, TU Dresden, Germany
  • 2024 – Present Member, Research Center for Modeling & Simulation, University of Bayreuth, Germany
  • 2022 – Present External Collaborator, The University of Texas at Austin COVID-19 Modeling Consortium, US

Education

  • 2023 Habilitation, Mathematics, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany
  • 2016 Ph.D., Operations Research & Industrial Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, US
  • 2013 M.Sc., Operations Research & Industrial Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, US
  • 2011 B.Tech., Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi, India

Invited Academic Stays (selection)

  • 2024 TU Dresden, Germany (5 weeks)
  • 2024 University of Bayreuth, Germany (3 weeks)
  • 2024 IIT Delhi, India (2 weeks)
  • 2023 University of Bergamo, Italy (2 weeks)
  • 2023 Ataturk University, Turkey (1 month)
  • 2021 Far Eastern Federal University, Vladivostok, Russia (2 weeks)
  • 2019 & 2018 Saint Petersburg Electrotechnical University, Russia (2 weeks each)
  • 2015 Higher School of Economics, Perm, Russia (3 months)

Third Party Funding (selection)

≈ €340,000 of total funding as a PI or co-PI

  • 2023–2025 Grants from the Heilbronn Institute for Mathematical Research
    £13,155
  • 2022 Internal competitive grants from the University of Southampton on interdisciplinary data-science topics
    £32,763
  • 2022–2026 Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation)
    €115,310
  • "Optimal decision-making during pandemics"
  • 2021 Bavarian State Ministry for Science & Art
    €10,000
  • "Greedy algorithms for fair allocations & efficient assignments within facility location problems"
  • 2020–2021 Bavarian-Czech Republic Academic Projects
    €14,893
  • "Fairly allocating vaccines for COVID-19" & "Optimal decision making for COVID-19"
  • 2020 European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) Secretariat, Horizon 2020
    €44,160
  • "Optimal spatiotemporal antiviral release under uncertainty"
  • 2018 Laboratory Directed Research & Development, US Department of Energy
    $80,000
  • "Chance-constrained optimization for critical infrastructure protection"

Several other small, but competitive, grants from agencies including the American Public Power Association (US); Bavarian Academic Center for Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe (BAYHOST, Germany); London Mathematical Society (LMS, UK); The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TÜBİTAK, Turkey); and The Alan Turing Institute (UK).

Memberships

  • Fellow, Institute of Mathematics and its Applications (FIMA)
  • Senior Member, IEEE (SMIEEE)
  • Associate Fellow, The OR Society (AFORS)
  • Member, German OR Society
  • Member, Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS)
  • Expert Reviewer, European Science Foundation (2025–2028)
  • Member, Randomised Optimisation Algorithms Research Network, European Cooperation in Science & Technology (COST)

Honors & Awards (Selection)

  • 2024 Distinguished Research Fellowship, TU Dresden, Germany
  • 2023 Mathematics Young Investigator Award (1st place)
  • 2019 IISE Health Systems Best Track Paper Award (2nd place)
  • 2016 Utility Variable-Generation Integration Group Academic Award
  • 2015 Warren & Alice Meyer Endowed Scholarship, UT Austin
  • 2014 INFORMS Doing Good with Good OR Paper Award (Finalist)
  • 2013 INFORMS Interactive Sessions Competition (2nd place)

Selected Publications

  • Schmitt, C. & Singh, B. (2024). "Quadratic optimization models for balancing preferential access and fairness: Formulations and optimality conditions". INFORMS Journal on Computing. Link
  • Singh, B., Oberfichtner, L., & Ivliev, S. (2022). "Heuristics for a cash-collection routing problem with a cluster-first route-second approach". Annals of Operations Research. Link
  • Singh, B., & Knueven, B. (2021). "Lagrangian relaxation-based heuristics for a chance-constrained optimization model of a hybrid solar-battery storage system". Journal of Global Optimization. Link
  • Duque, D., Morton, D. P., Singh, B., Du, Z., Pasco, R., & Meyers, L. A. (2020). "Timing social distancing to avert unmanageable COVID-19 hospital surges". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). Link
  • Rebennack, S., Prokopyev, O. A., & Singh, B. (2020). "Two-stage stochastic minimum s–t cut problems: Formulations, complexity and decomposition algorithms". Networks. Link

46 invited seminars, 27 conference talks, 10 chaired conference sessions, and 6 key talks.