Dr. Szymon Albiński, Civ. Ing.
Research interests
Methods
- Discrete Optimization & Mixed-Integer Linear Programming
- Convex Optimization
- Game Theory
Topics
- Transportation
- Truck Platooning
- Shared Mobility
- Vehicle Routing
Publications
Peer reviewed
- Albiński, S., Fontaine, P. & Minner, S. (2018). Performance Analysis of a Hybrid Bike Sharing System: A Service-level-based Approach Under Censored Demand Observations, Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, 116, 59 - 69, DOI 10.1016/j.tre.2018.05.011
Others
- Albiński, S., Crainic, T. G., Minner, S. (2020). The Day-before Truck Platooning Planning Problem and the Value of Autonomous Driving. CIRRELT research report, CIRRELT-2020-04. https://www.cirrelt.ca/DocumentsTravail/CIRRELT-2020-04.pdf
- Albiński, S. (2020). Analytics for Shared Mobility and Transportation Systems - Advances in Methods and Insights. Doctoral dissertation. Technical University of Munich. URL: http://mediatum.ub.tum.de/?id=1523550
Academic Career and Positions held
- 09/2015 - 03/2020: Research associate at the Chair of Logistics and Supply Chain Management (Prof. Dr. Stefan Minner); Technical University of Munich
- 09/2018 - 03/2019: Research visit at Interuniversity Research Centre on Enterprise Networks, Logistics, and Transportation (CIRRELT) in Montréal (Prof. Teodor Gabriel Crainic), Québec, Canada
- 10/2017 - 03/2020: Associated Researcher at the Research Training Group Advanced Optimization in a Networked Economy (AdONE); Technical University of Munich
Academic Education
- 2020: Doctorate (Dr. rer. pol.) on the topic "Analytics for Shared Mobility and Transportation Systems – Advances in Methods and Insights"; Technical University of Munich
- 2015: Graduation as Master of Science in Mathematics in Operations Research (M.Sc.) and Master of Science in Engineering (Civ. Ing.).
- 2012 - 2015: Double Degree Studies in Mathematical Optimisation and Systems Theory at Technical University of Munich and Royal Institute of Technology (Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan, KTH), Stockholm.
- 2012: Graduation as Bachelor of Science in Mathematics (B.Sc.).
- 2009 - 2012: Undergraduate studies in Mathematics with Minor in Economics at Technical University of Munich.
Awards
- 2018: Runner-up Best Student Paper Award of the International Society for Inventory Research (ISIR)
- 2017: INFORMS TSL Cross-Region Doctoral Grant
- 2016: 2nd Prize Poster Presentation, 4th TUM School of Management Research Fest
- 2016: IWA Jena e.V. prize for excellent Master Theses
- 2015: Stockholm Mathematics Centre Prize for excellent Master Theses
- Master's theses:
- 2019:
- Predictive Analytics for Car-Sharing
- The Data-Driven Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Windows and Uncertain Service Times
- 2018:
- Optimal Pricing and Rebalancing in Car-Sharing Networks
- Designing and Scheduling Cost-Efficient Tours by Using the Concept of Truck Platooning. Awarded with the BVL Master Thesis Award 2018.
- Car-sharing demand analysis (joint supervision with DTU Kopenhagen)
- 2017:
- Task Allocation for fleets of mobile autonomous picking robots (in cooperation with Magazino GmbH)
- A data-driven approach for the capacitated Vehicle Routing Problem with stochastic demand
- Integrated Routing and Scheduling of Carsharing Service Requests (in cooperation with BMW AG). Awarded with the GOR Master Thesis Award 2018.
- Optimization of an overseas supply chain with consolidation points
- Designing and scheduling cost-efficient tours by using the concept of truck platooning
- 2016:
- Big Data Analytics of Spatio-Temporal Car-Sharing Data
- Identification of Influencing Factors on Carsharing Demand and Development of a Demand Model by Using Big Data Analytics (in cooperation with BMW AG)
- Optimization of the USA Overseas Supply (in cooperation with BMW AG)
- 2019:
- Bachelor's theses:
- 2019:
- Design of cost-optimal tours by using truck platooning
- 2018:
- Clustering heuristics for home-attended beverage delivery (in cooperation with drinknow GmbH)
- Data-based analysis of the global car-sharing market
- Hyperloop Network Design
- 2017:
- Queuing systems for automated mobility-on-demand systems
- Planning and Optimization Problems in Collaborative Trucking
- Marketing of Platform-Business Models New Approaches for the Chicken-and-Egg Problem (in cooperation with LoadFox GmbH)
- Network design for the Hyperloop in Germany
- 2016:
- Planning and Optimiziation Problems in Car-Sharing
- Planning and Optimiziation Problems in the Asian Shared Mobility Market
- Analysis of Car Sharing Booking Data
- Customer Based Relocation of Car-Sharing Vehicles
- A Relocation and Dispatching Problem for Automated MoD Systems
- Evaluation of assignment rules for automated parking
- Sales and Operations Planning as Group Decision Processes
- Comparison of the transportation costs between the BMW Group and its suppliers regarding the purchase of containers (in cooperation with BMW AG)
- Simulated Annealing for Dynamic Lot Sizing. Development and Evaluation of a Heuristic for the Production Planning at BASF
- 2015:
- Auctioning Public Transportation Networks – Theory and Empirical Evidence
- Evaluation of an Autonomous Mobility-on-Demand System for Munich
- Evaluation of various layouts and assignment policies within a piloted parking car park (in cooperation with Urban Standards GmbH)
- 2019:
- Project studies:
- 2019:
- Applying the Bin-Packing Problem to Supermarket Layout Planning at Porsche (in co-operation with Porsche Consulting)
- Competitive Analysis and Development of Pricing Monitor - EV Charging Infrastructure Operators (in co-operation with Ionity)
- 2018:
- Tour planning in food delivery (in cooperation with drink now)
- Optimizing cross-docking processes (in cooperation with the Andreas Schmidt Logistik AG)
- 2016: Design and Simulation of the Munich Bike Network
- 2015: Analysis of Carsharing in Munich
- 2019:
- Interdisciplinary project:
- 2016: Car Sharing Analysis
- 2016: Car Sharing Analysis
- Practical Research Experience Program:
- 2019: Advanced Analytics for New Mobility Concepts
- 2018: Big Data Analytics on Car-sharing using Neural Network
- Winter 2019:
- Transportation Logistics (Bachelor)
- Advanced Seminar Logistics and Supply Chain Management (Master)
- Summer 2019:
- Modelling & Optimization (Bachelor)
- Advanced Seminar Operations & Supply Chain Management (Master)
- Summer 2018:
- Modelling and Optimization in Operations Management (Bachelor)
- Advanced Seminar Logistics & Supply Chain Management (Master)
- Winter 2017 / 2018:
- Transportation Logistics (Bachelor)
- Advanced Seminar Logistics & Supply Chain Management (Master)
- Summer 2017:
- Modelling & Optimization (Bachelor)
- Advanced Seminar Logistics & Supply Chain Management (Master)
- Winter 2016 / 2017:
- Transportation Logistics (Bachelor)
- Advanced Seminar Logistics & Supply Chain Management (Master)
- Summer 2016:
- Advanced Seminar Logistics & Supply Chain Management (Master)
- Winter 2015 / 2016:
- Transportation Logistics (Bachelor)
- Advanced Seminar Logistics & Supply Chain Management (Master)
- 2020:
- 14th International Conference on Operations Research, Havana, Cuba:
"Competitive Rebalancing in One-Way Car-Sharing"
- 14th International Conference on Operations Research, Havana, Cuba:
- 2019:
- Operations Research 2019, Dresden, Germany:
"An Exact Solution Approach to the Day-before Truck Platooning Planning Problem" - 7th INFORMS Transportation Science and Logistics Society Workshop, Vienna, Austria:
"Day-before Planning for the Restricted Truck Platooning Problem" - TRISTAN X - 2019 Triennial Symposium on Transportation Analysis, Hamilton Island, Australia:
"Day-before Planning for the Restricted Truck Platooning Problem" - Brown Bag Seminar, TU Dresden, Dresden, Germany:
"The Restricted Truck Platooning Problem" - Joint Seminar CRI²GS & ESQ UQÀM, Montréal, Canada:
"A Network Design Approach for the Truck Platooning Problem"
- Operations Research 2019, Dresden, Germany:
- 2018:
- Joint Seminar CRI²GS & ESQ UQÀM, Montréal, Canada:
"Application of Operations Research and Big Data to New Mobility Concepts and the Stochastic VRPTW" - ISIR 2018 - 20th International Symposium on Inventories, Budapest, Hungary:
"Competitive Inventory Rebalancing with Application to Car-Sharing" - EURO 2018 - 29th European Conference on Operational Research, Valencia, Spain:
"Spatio-temporal service performance of two car-sharing operators under customer substitution" - MSOM Conference 2018, Dallas, USA:
"Competitive Rebalancing in One-Way Car-Sharing" - Odysseus 2018 - 7th International Workshop on Freight Transportation and Logistics, Cagliari, Italy:
"A data-driven approach to the Vehicle Routing Problem with Time-Windows under uncertain traveling-times or service times"
- Joint Seminar CRI²GS & ESQ UQÀM, Montréal, Canada:
- 2017:
- 34. Deutscher Logistik Kongress, Berlin, Germany:
"The Truck Platooning Problem" - INFORMS Transportation and Logistics Society First Triennial Conference, Chicago, USA: "Competitive Rebalancing in One-Way Car-Sharing"
- mobilTUM Conference 2017, Munich, Germany:
"Usage Patterns and Demand Analysis in a Hybrid Bike Sharing System" - Operations Management Seminar, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Jena, Germany:
"Matching Supply and Demand in Mobility-on-Demand Services"
- 34. Deutscher Logistik Kongress, Berlin, Germany:
- 2016:
- TUM School of Management Research Fest, Munich, Germany:
"Applying Operations Research to Urban Mobility" - IWA Symposium, Jena, Germany:
"Optimized Rebalancing of Car-Sharing Vehicles"
- TUM School of Management Research Fest, Munich, Germany:
- 2015 Automotive Workshop, Munich, Germany:
- "Looking behind the scenes - relocating car-sharing vehicles"