PhD Graduates | Stochastic Operations Research (SOR)

Name	Graduation date	Title	Supervisors
Dr. Z. Baki (Zhuldyzay)	March 11, 2025	Comprehensive monitoring and prediction of seismicity within the Groningen gas field using large-scale field observations	professor M. N. M. van Lieshout dr. Matthias Schlottbom
Dr. C. Lu (Changqing)	February 27, 2025	Statistical and machine learning contributions to spatial and spatio-temporal point process modelling, with an application to Dutch fire risk prediction	professor M. N. M. van Lieshout professor R.J. Boucherie dr. ir. M. de Graaf
Dr. S. Baas (Stef)	November 15, 2024	Computational methods for Bayesian covariance structure modeling and multi-armed bandit-based design of clinical trials	professor R.J. Boucherie dr.ir. G.J.A. Fox
Dr. J.H.J. van Sambeeck (Joost)	December 9, 2020	Optimal Red Blood Cell Matching	dr.ir. M.P. Janssen professor N.M. van Dijk professor W.L.A.M. de Kort
Dr. A.J. Schneider (Thomas)	September 18, 2020	Integral Capacity Management & Planning in Hospitals	dr.ir. M.E. Zonderland professor R.J. Boucherie professor E.W. Hans
Dr. A.I. Oblakova (Anna)	September 27, 2019	Queueing models for urban traffic networks	dr. J.C.W. van Ommeren professor R.J. Boucherie professor W.H.M. Zijm
Dr. A. Buijsrogge (Anne)	June 21, 2019	Rare event simulation for non-Markovian tandem queues	dr.ir. W.R.W. Scheinhardt dr.ir. P.T. de Boer professor R.J. Boucherie professor B.R.H.M. Haverkort
Dr. C.M. Laan (Corine)	January 25, 2019	Games for the Optimal Deployment of Security Forces	professor R.J. Boucherie dr. A.I. Barros professor H. Monsuur
Dr. I.A. Bikker (Ingeborg)	November 2, 2018	Organizing timely treatment in multi-disciplinary care	professor R.J. Boucherie professor M. van Houdenhoven
Dr. X. Bai (Xinwei)	September 20, 2018	Performance bounds for random walks in the positive orthant	dr. J. Goseling professor R.J. Boucherie
Dr. B. Serbetci (Berksan)	April 12, 2018	Caching and Network Coding for Smart Radio Access	dr. J. Goseling professor R.J. Boucherie
Dr. S.P.J. van Brummelen (Sem)	December 14, 2017	Bloody Fast Blood Collection	professor N.M. van Dijk professor R.J. Boucherie professor W.L.A.M. de Kort
Dr. A.G. Leeftink (Gréanne)	June 23, 2017	Why wait?: Organizing integrated processes in cancer care	professor R.J. Boucherie professor E.W. Hans
Dr. N.J. Borgman (Nardo)	June 23, 2017	Managing urgent care in hospitals	professor R.J. Boucherie professor E.W. Hans
Dr. T.J.M. Coenen (Tom)	June 9, 2017	Modeling the impact of interference on wireless ad hoc network performance	dr.ir. M. de Graaf professor R.J. Boucherie professor J.L. van den Berg
Dr. W.L.F. van der Hoorn (Pim)	October 7, 2016	Asymptotic analysis of network structures: degree-degree correlations and directed paths	dr. N. Litvak professor R.J. Boucherie
Dr. N.M. van de Vrugt (Maartje)	July 1, 2016	Efficient healthcare logistics with a human touch	professor R.J. Boucherie
Dr. M.A. Mitici (Mihaela)	November 18, 2015	Performance analysis of data retrieval in wireless sensor networks	dr.ir. J. Goseling dr.ir. M. de Graaf professor R.J. Boucherie
Dr. A. Braaksma (Aleida)	September 25, 2015	Timely and efficient planning of treatments through intelligent scheduling	professor R.J. Boucherie professor P.J.M. Bakker
Dr. N. Baër (Niek)	June 6, 2015	Queueing and Traffic	dr.J.C.W. van Ommeren professor R.J. Boucherie
Dr. Y. Chen (Yanting)	May 22, 2015	Random walks in the quarter-plane: invariant measures and performance bounds	dr.ir. J. Goseling professor R.J. Boucherie
Dr. D.P. Reijsbergen (Daniël)	December 6, 2013	Efficient simulation techniques for stochastic model checking	dr.ir. W.R.W. Scheinhardt dr.ir. P.T. de Boer professor R.J. Boucherie professor B.R.H.M. Haverkort
Dr. E. van der Veen (Egbert)	November 22, 2013	Personnel preferences in personnel planning and scheduling	professor R.J. Boucherie
Dr. P.J.H. Hulshof (Peter)	November 21, 2013	Integration decision making healthcare. An operations research and management science perspective	professor R.J. Boucherie professor E.W. Hans
Dr. I. Endrayanto Aluicius (Irwan)	May 30, 2013	Optimal resource allocation in downlink CDMA wireless networks	professor R.J. Boucherie professor J.L. van den Berg
Dr. N. Kortbeek (Nikky)	November 23, 2012	Quality-driven Efficiency in Healthcare	professor R.J. Boucherie professor P.J.M. Bakker
Dr. M.E. Zonderland (Maartje)	January 27, 2012	Curing the queue	professor R.J. Boucherie dr. F. Boer dr. N. Litvak
Dr. P.T. Vanberkel (Peter)	May 27, 2011	Interacting hospital departments and uncertain patient flows: theoretical models and applications	professor R.J. Boucherie dr.ir. E.W. Hans professor J.L. Hurink
Dr. D.I. Miretskiy (Denis)	November 12, 2009	Queueing networks: rare events and fast simulations	dr.ir. W.R.W. Scheinhardt professor R.J. Boucherie professor M.R.H. Mandjes (University of Amsterdam)
Dr. R. de Haan (Roland)	June 4, 2009	Queueing Models for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks	professor R.J. Boucherie dr. J.C.W. van Ommeren
Dr. Y.V. Volkovich (Yana)	April 24, 2009	Stochastic analysis of web page ranking	dr. N. Litvak professor R.J. Boucherie
Dr. S.K. Cheung (Sing Kong)	June 1, 2007	Processor-Sharing Queues and Resource Sharing in Wireless LANs	professor R.J. Boucherie professor J.L. van den Berg
Dr. N.D. van Foreest (Nicky)	December 17, 2004	Queues with Congestion-dependent Feedback	dr.ir. W.R.W. Scheinhardt professor M.R.H. Mandjes
Dr. R. Litjens (Remco)	September 12, 2003	Stochastic performance analysis of capacity allocation policies in 2.5/3G mobile networks	professor W.H.M. Zijm dr. R.J. Boucherie
Dr.ir. E.W. Hans (Erwin)	September 12, 2001	Resource loading by branch-and-price techniques	dr.ir. A.J.R.M. Gademann professor W.H.M. Zijm professor S.L. van de Velde
Dr.ir. M.J.J. Garvels (Marnix)	October 20, 2000	The splitting method in rare event simulation	dr.ir. V.F.Nicola professor J.H.A. de Smit professor I.G.M.M Niemegeers
Dr.ir. W.R.W. Scheinhardt (Werner)	December 4, 1998	Markov-modulated and feedback fluid queues	dr.ir. E.A. van Doorn professor J.H.A. de Smit.