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/Lecturer-B, School of Mathematical Sciences, University of Southampton, UK
  • 2019 – 2022 Researcher, Discrete Mathematics, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen–Nürnberg, Germany
  • 2017 – 2019 Postdoctoral Appointee, Discrete Mathematics & Optimization, Sandia National Laboratories, US
  • 2016 Research Intern, Discrete Mathematics & Optimization, Sandia National Laboratories, US
  • 2017 Researcher, Institute of Operations Research, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
  • 2017 Senior Expert, Stockholm Environment Institute, Tallinn, Estonia
  • 2011 – 2016 Research and Teaching Assistant, Mechanical Engineering and Integrative Biology

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

Selected Affiliations & Academic Stays

  • 2026 Plaksha University, India
  • 2026 Beijing Institute of Mathematical Sciences and Applications / Tsinghua University, China
  • 2026 Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, University of Cambridge, UK
  • 2024 – 2025 TU Dresden, Germany
  • 2024 University of Bayreuth, Germany
  • 2020 – 2022 External Member for The University of Texas at Austin COVID-19 Modeling Consortium, US
  • 2024 Invited academic stays at IIT Delhi, University of Bayreuth, TU Dresden, and Atatürk University
  • 2023 Invited academic stays at University of Bergamo and Atatürk University

Third Party Funding (selection)

≈ €360,000 in competitive funding as PI or co-PI, excluding negotiated institutional matching and smaller travel awards.

  • 2022–2027 German Research Foundation (DFG)
    €115,310
  • "Optimal decision-making during pandemics" (funding awarded 2022–2025, no-cost extension to 2027).
  • 2020 European Open Science Cloud Secretariat, Horizon 2020:
    €44,160
  • "Optimal spatiotemporal antiviral release under uncertainty" (co-PI).
  • 2018 Laboratory Directed Research and Development, Sandia National Laboratories / US Department of Energy
    $80,000
  • "Chance-constrained optimization for critical infrastructure protection".

Additional competitive grants awarded by American Public Power Association (US); Bavarian State Ministry for Science & Art; Bavarian Academic Center for Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe (BAYHOST, Germany); European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST); London Mathematical Society (LMS, UK); The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TÜBİTAK, Turkey); the University of Southampton; The Alan Turing Institute (UK); and other national and international schemes.

Professional Memberships & Service (Selection)

  • 2026 – Editorial Board, Optimization Letters
  • 2025 – 2028 Expert Reviewer, European Science Foundation
  • 2022 – 2026 Committee Member, London Mathematical Society
  • 2023 Fellow, Institute of Mathematics and its Applications (FIMA)
  • 2023 Senior Member, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (SMIEEE)
  • 2023 Associate Fellow, The OR Society (AFORS)

Honors & Awards (Selection)

  • 2025 – 2026 Dresden Senior Fellowship, TU Dresden, Germany
  • 2024 – 2025 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

  • Jaidee, M., Sun, Z., Singh, S., Nguyen, T., & Singh, B. (2026). "Optimizing Household Waste Recycling Centre network reorganization in Hampshire". Networks. Link
  • Schmidt, M. & Singh, B. (2025). "The balanced facility location problem: Complexity and heuristics". INFORMS Journal on Computing. Link
  • Singh, B. & Rebennack, S. (2025). "Release immediately or sequentially? Strategies for allocating scarce therapeutic resources during disease outbreaks". IISE Transactions. Link
  • Suresh, N. & Singh, B. (2025). "Optimizing a heritage railway provider's volunteer workforce allocation: The case of Swanage Railway". INFORMS Journal on Applied Analytics. Link
  • 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., & 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

Languages: English & Hindi (fluent), Russian & German (basic).