Xuan Vinh Doan

Information Doan, Xuan Vinh Reader, SFHEA Warwick Business School University of Warwick Coventry, CV4 7AL United Kingdom E-mail: Xuan-dot-Doan-at-wbs-dot-ac-dot-uk Tel: +44 (0)24 7652 2475 "The only thing we require to be good philosophers is the faculty of wonder", Jostein Gaarder Curriculum VitaeLink opens in a new window. Updates. Facts. Publications. Extras.

Updates

I am currently a Senior Editor of Applied Operations and Analytics and an Associate Editor of OMEGA. I served as the Research Environment Lead in Analytics of the ISM-Analytics (ISMA) group at Warwick Business School from 2023 to 2025. I was a Turing Fellow at the Alan Turing Institute (2018-2023). I was affiliated with DIMAP Center.

I am a member of the OR Society's General Council (Event and Research Committees) and a member of NATCOR's Executive Committee.

I currently serve as an external examiner of the MBA programme at Loughborough University. I was an external examiner for the BSc in Business Analytics programme at the University of Exeter (2023-2026).

I am going to attend OR2026Link opens in a new window in Passau and OR68Link opens in a new window in Nottingham (September 2026). I am one of the co-chairs of VSSCM 2026Link opens in a new window in Hanoi (October 2026) and a member of the scientific committee for ESCO-CMS 2027Link opens in a new window in Lancaster (June 2027).

In preparation

• "Integrated Surgical Scheduling with Predictive Analytics for Enhanced Hospital Resource Utilization", 2026 (with D.Karagiannis and N. Gulpinar)
• “Data-Driven Optimization for Intra-Day Surgery Scheduling under Downstream Uncertainty”, 2026 (with D. Karagiannis and N. Gulpinar)
• “How much Data do We Need? Sequential Data Collection for Stochastic Programming”, 2026 (with X. Li and J. Branke)
• “On the Stability of Robust Operations Games under Moment-Based Ambiguity”, 2026 (with T.D. Nguyen)
• "Sample Selection in Federated Learning", 2026 (with M. Nguyen-Duc and D. Le-Phuoc)
• "Online Misinformation: A Generation and Propagation Model", 2026 (with T. D. Nguyen)

Submitted papers

• "Operations Games under Uncertainty: to Cooperate or not to Cooperate", July 2026 (with T. D. Nguyen)
• “A Data-Driven Approach for the Surgical Case Assignment Problem”, July 2026 (with D. Karagiannis and N. Gulpinar)
• "Stability, Efficiency, and Tractability: Cost-Sharing Trade-offs in Stochastic Congestion Games", May 2026 (with B. Chen and W. Wang)

Facts

Previous Academic Position

• Turing Fellow, Alan Turing Institute, London, UK (October 2018 - September 2023)
• Visting Professor, LGIPM, University of Lorraine, Metz, France (November 2021 - December 2021)
• Associate Professor, Warwick Business School, University of Warwick, UK (January 2015 - July 2021)
• Assistant Professor, Warwick Business School, University of Warwick, UK (October 2011 - December 2014)
• Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Combinatorics and Optimization, University of Waterloo, Canada (November 2009 - September 2011)
  • Supervisors: Professor Henry Wolkowicz and Professor Stephen Vavasis

Education

• PhD in Operations Research from Operations Research Center at MIT (October 2009)
  • Advisor: Professor Dimitris Bersimas
  • Thesis: "Optimization under Moment, Robust, and Data-Driven Models of Uncertainty"
• M.S. in HPCES (High Performance Computations for Engineered Systems) from Singapore-MIT Alliance (SMA) program, Singapore (June 2004)
• B.Eng in Software Systems from RMIT University, Australia (December 2002)
• High school education in Vietnam (Quoc Hoc, Hue)

Graduated PhD Students

• Dr Chenlan Wang (2014)
• Dr Ruini Qu (2018)
• Dr Elvan Gokalp (2018)
• Dr Ankang Sun (2023)
• Dr Mengke Wang (2023)
• Dr Weicheng Wang (2023)
• Dr Dimitrios Karagiannis (2026)

Experiences

• Teaching experience:
  • Optimization under Uncertainty (NATCOR)
  • Decision Making with Multiple Criteria under Uncertainty (NATCOR)
  • Optimal Decision Making, Recent Advances in Operational Research (PhD Programme), Warwick Business School
  • Optimisation Methods, Analytics in Practice, Text Analytics, Advanced Analytics (MSc Business Analytics modules), Warwick Business School
  • Mathematical Programming I, II, Decision Making under Uncertainty, and Applied Optimisation Methods (MORSE undergraduate modules), University of Warwick
  • Optimization Training for Industry (Newton Gateway to Mathematics training course), Isaac Newton Institute
  • Scheduling Theory (undergraduate module), Spring 2010, University of Waterloo
  • Optimization Methods in Management Science, Optimization Methods, OR in the Real World, Operations Management, The Theory of Operations Management, Nonlinear Programming (teaching assistant), MIT
• Industrial experience:
  • PSA Corp., Singapore (2004)
  • Micronas GmbH, Germany (2003)
  • Request Ltd., Australia (2001-2002)

Publications

Journal Papers

• "Robust Resilient Supplier Selection and Order Allocation under Disruption Risk", International Journal of Production Economics, July 2026 (with X. Li and J. Branke)
• "Fairness Criteria for Allocating Indivisible Chores: Connections and Efficiencies", Journal of Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, 37(8), August 2023 (with B. Chen and A. Sun)
• "Dynamic surgery management under uncertainty", European Journal of Operational Research, 309(2), 832–844, September 2023 (with N. Gulpinar and E. Gokalp)
• "Learning from data with structured missingness", Nature Machine Intelligence, 5, 13–23, January 2023 (with R. Mitra, S. McGough, C. Harbron, and B. MacArthur et al.)
• "Equitability and Welfare Maximization for Allocating Indivisible Items", Journal of Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, 37(8), December 2022 (with B. Chen and A. Sun)
• "Distributionally Robust Optimization under Endogenous Uncertainty with an Application in Retrofit Planning", European Journal of Operational Research, 300(1), 73–84, July 2022
• "Low-Rank Matrix Recovery with Ky Fan 2-k-Norm", Journal of Global Optimization, 82, 727–751, April 2022 (with S. Vavasis)
• "Robust Newsvendor Games with Ambiguity in Demand Distributions", Operations Research, 68(4), 1047–1062, July 2020 (with T. D. Nguyen)
• "Price of Anarchy for Atomic Congestion Games with Stochastic Demands" Journal of Combinatorial Optimization, 44, 2123–2142, May 2020 (with B. Chen and C. Wang)
• "Pricing of Reusable Resources under Ambiguous Distributions of Demand and Service Time with Emerging Applications", European Journal of Operational Research, 282(1), 235–251, April 2020 (with X. Lei and S. Shen)
• "Capacity Planning for a Network of Stem-Cell Donation Centres under Uncertainty", Production and Operations Management, 29(2), 281–297, February 2020 (with N. Gulpinar and E. Gokalp)
• "Resource Allocation When Planning for Concurrent Disasters", European Journal of Operational Research, 274(2), 687–709, January 2019 (with D. Shaw)
• "Finding the Largest Low-Rank Clusters with Ky Fan 2-k-norm and L₁-Norm", SIAM Journal on Optimization, 26(1), 274–312, January 2016 (with S. Vavasis)
• "Robustness to Dependency in Portfolio Optimization Using Overlapping Marginals", Operations Research, 63(6), 1468 – 1488, November 2015 (with X. Li and K. Natarajan): 2nd Place Winner of the INFORMS Financial Services Section (FSS) Best Student Paper Research Award 2013Link opens in a new window for Xiaobo Li
• "Price of Anarchy for Non-Atomic Congestion Games with Stochastic Demands", Transportation Research Part B: Methodology, 70, 90 - 111, December 2014. (with B. Chen and C. Wang)
• "Finding Approximately Rank-One Submatrices with the Nuclear Norm and L₁-Norm", SIAM Journal on Optimization, 23(4), 2502 - 2540, December 2013. (with S. Vavasis). Unpublished proofLink opens in a new window of NP-hardness of LAROS problem.
• "A Proximal Point Algorithm for Sequential Feature Extraction Applications", SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing, 35(1), A517 - A540, February 2013. (with K. C. Toh and S. Vavasis)
• "A Robust Algorithm for Semidefinite Programming", Optimization Methods and Software, 27(4-5), 667 - 693, August 2012. (with S. Kruk and H. Wolkowicz)
• "On the Complexity of Non-Overlapping Multivariate Marginal Bounds for Probabilistic Combinatorial Optimization Problems", Operations Research, 60(1), 138 - 149, February 2012. (with K. Natarajan)
• "Data-Driven and Robust Optimization Approaches to Call Centers", European Journal of Operational Research, 207(2), 1072 - 1085, December 2010. (with D. Bertsimas)
• "Models for Minimax Stochastic Linear Optimization Problems with Risk Aversion", Mathematics of Operations Research, 35(3), 580 - 602, August 2010. (with D. Bertsimas, K. Natarajan and C. P. Teo)
• "Approximating Integrals of Multivariate Exponentials: A Moment Approach", Operations Research Letters, 36(2), 205 - 210, March 2008. (with D. Bertsimas and J. Lasserre)

Conference Proceedings

• "Optimizing Merkle Tree Structure for Blockchain transactions by a DC Programming approach" in "Computational Collective Intelligence. ICCCI 2023. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 14162": N. T. Nguyen et al. (eds.), September 2023 (with H. A. Le Thi and T. T. T. Nguyen)
• "Connections between fairness criteria and efficiency for allocating indivisible chores" in "Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2021)": U. Endriss, A. Nowe, F. Dignum, A. Lomuscio (eds.), May 2021 (with A. Sun and B. Chen)
• "Low-Rank Matrix Recovery with Ky Fan 2-k-Norm" in "Optimization of Complex Systems: Theory, Models, Algorithms and Applications, WCGO 2019": Le Thi H., Le H., Pham Dinh T. (eds), Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 991, July 2019 (with S. Vavasis)

Technical Reports

• "Real-Time Scheduling for Multi-Functional Phased Array Radar", Project Report, Operations Research Center, MIT, March 2008. (with D. Bertsimas and M. Weber)
• "Bounds on Some Contingent Claims with Non-Convex Payoff Based on Multiple Assets", Technical Report, Operations Research Center, MIT, August 2007. (with D. Bertsimas and K. Natarajan) PDFLink opens in a new window
• "Multivariate Exponential Integral Approximations: A Moment Approach", Technical Report, Operations Research Center, MIT, January 2006. (with D. Bertsimas and J. Lasserre) PDFLink opens in a new window
• "Ant Colony Optimization for a Machine-Job Scheduling Problem with Sequence-Dependent Setup Times and Delay Threshold Limits", Working Paper, Singapore - MIT Alliance, National University of Singapore, May 2004.
• "Capacity Management: Using the Dual Solution of the Multi-Commodity Flow Problem to Set OSPF Weights - A Fast Heuristics", ATcrc Technical Report, Australia, January 2003. (with J. Murphy, R. Nelson, and R. Harris) PDFLink opens in a new window

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