Courses: Production and logistics management
CNRS Research group on operations research applied to health care sytems

Operations research
Combinatorial optimization
Computer science

Health care management

Logistics
Operations research
Programming (C, Java)

Thierry Garaix is an Assistant Professor of Healthcare Management at the Center for Health Engineering of the École des Mines de Saint-Étienne
(France), and member of the research laboratory LIMOS UMR CNRS 6158 (Clermont-Ferrand, France), since 2011. He received his Ph.D. in Operations Research and Geomatics from the Université d’Avignon et des Pays de Vaucluse (France), in 2007. His research interests focus on the optimization of logistics and production systems, in particular, on vehicle routing and scheduling problems. Many of them are in the health care context like home health care and emergency department planning.

Sep. 04 – July 08: PhD student and temporary assistant professor, Mathematical and Computer Sciences Engineering Center at University of Avignon.
• Transportation optimization and vehicle routing problems. Supervisors : C. Artigues, D. Josselin, D. Feillet

Dec. 11 – now: Assistant professor, Center for Biomedical and Healthcare Engineering (CIS, LIMOS CNRS UMR 6158), ENSMSE.
• Quantitative methods for modeling, simulation and optimization of healthcare production systems and new health services. Team leader : X. Xie.
Aug. 10 – Sep. 11: Postdoc researcher, Micro-electronic Center, ENSMSE.
• City logistics and semi-conductor production. Team leader : S. Dauzère-Péres.
July 08 – July 10: Postdoc researcher, Politecnico di Torino (6 months at LAAS Toulouse as guest researcher).
• Scheduling of production in industrial context (Pirelli). Robust optimization. Team leader : F. Della Croce.

• ”Staff dimensioning in homecare services with uncertain demands”, C. Rodriguez Verjan, O. EL-Rifai, T. Garaix, V. Augusto, X. Xie , International Journal of Production Research, 53(24):7396-7410 , 2015 .
• ”Hybridization of Tabu Search with Feasible and Infeasible Local Searches for Periodic Home Health Care Logistics”, R. Liu, X. Xie, T. Garaix , Omega, 47:17-32 , 2014 .
• ”A New Consistent Vehicle Routing Problem for the Transportation of People with Disabilities”, D. Feillet, T. Garaix, F. Lehuédé, O. Péton, D. Quadri , Networks, 63(3), 211-224 , 2014 .
• ”Fast Minimum Float Computation In Activity Networks Under Interval Uncertainty”, T. Garaix, C. Artigues, C. Briand , Journal of Scheduling, 16(1):93-103 , 2013 .
• ”Vehicle routing problems with alternative paths : an application to on-demand transportation”, T. Garaix, C. Artigues, D. Feillet, D. Josselin , European Journal of Operational Research, 204(1):62-75 , 2010 .