Fatemeh Sarayloo
Clinical Assistant Professor and Director of Master of Science in Business Analytics (MSBA) Graduate Studies
Department of Information and Decision Sciences
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About
Fatemeh Sarayloo is a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Information and Decision Sciences at the University of Illinois Chicago. She also serves as the Director of Graduate Studies for the MS in Business Analytics. Prior to joining UIC, she was a Visiting Assistant Professor at Purdue University’s School of Industrial Engineering.
Dr. Sarayloo holds a PhD in Computer Science and Operations Research from the University of Montreal and CIRRELT. Her research focuses on applied decision-making problems under uncertainty, utilizing advanced optimization and machine learning techniques such as combinatorial optimization, stochastic programming, and statistical learning. Her research applications extend to logistics, operations management, and transportation, and her scholarly works have been published in leading journals including INFORMS Journal on Computing and the Journal of Heuristics.
With teaching experience at both Purdue and UIC, Dr. Sarayloo covers a broad range of topics including prescriptive and predictive analytics, discrete optimization models and algorithms, advanced facilities design, and computing in industrial engineering. She actively collaborates with industry partners and develops capstone projects in AI and analytics applied to business and finance; some of which have been recognized through conference publications and awards.
Selected Publications
- Fatemeh Sarayloo, Teodor Gabriel Crainic and Walter Rei, “An Integrated Learning and Progressive Hedging Method to Solve Stochastic Network Design”, Journal of Heuristics 29, 409–434 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10732-023-09515-w .
- Fatemeh Sarayloo, Teodor Gabriel Crainic and Walter Rei. “A Learning-Based Matheuristic approach for Stochastic Network Design Problem”, INFORMS Journal on Computing, ISSN 1526-5528 (2020), https://doi.org/10.1287/ijoc.2020.0967
- Sarayloo, F., Crainic, T.G. & Rei, W. “A reduced cost-based restriction and refinement matheuristic for stochastic network design problem”. Journal of Heuristics, 27, 325–351 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10732-020-09460-y
Education
PhD in Computer Science and Operations Research, University of Montreal