Portrait de Emma Frejinger

Emma Frejinger

Membre académique associé
Professeure titulaire, Université de Montréal, Département d'informatique et de recherche opérationnelle
Sujets de recherche
Apprentissage automatique appliqué
Apprentissage par renforcement
IA et durabilité
Optimisation
Optimisation combinatoire

Biographie

Emma Frejinger est professeure au Département d'informatique et de recherche opérationnelle (DIRO) de l'Université de Montréal, où elle est aussi titulaire d'une chaire de recherche du Canada et d'une chaire industrielle financée par la Compagnie des chemins de fer nationaux du Canada.

Ses recherches sont axées sur les applications et portent sur le développement de combinaisons innovantes de méthodes d’apprentissage automatique et de recherche opérationnelle afin de résoudre des problèmes de prise de décision à grande échelle. Emma possède une vaste expérience de collaboration avec l’industrie, en particulier dans le secteur des transports.

Depuis 2018, elle agit également comme conseillère scientifique pour IVADO Labs, où elle contribue au développement de solutions en intelligence artificielle pour l’industrie de la chaîne d’approvisionnement. En outre, elle offre des services de témoin expert et est affiliée universitaire au sein d’Analysis Group. Avant de se joindre à l’Université de Montréal en 2013, Emma était professeure à l’Institut royal de technologie KTH en Suède. Elle détient un doctorat en mathématiques de l’EPFL (Suisse).

Étudiants actuels

Doctorat - UdeM
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Publications

Block planning for intermodal rail: Methodology and case study
Gianluca Morganti
T. Crainic
Nicolettta Ricciardi
Electric Vehicles Equilibrium Model that Considers Queue Delay and Mixed Traffic
Nurit Oliker
Miguel F. Anjos
Bernard Gendron
This study develops an equilibrium model for electric vehicles (EVs) that considers both queue delays in charging stations and flow dependen… (voir plus)t travel times. This is a user equilibrium model that accounts for travel, charging and queuing time in the path choice modelling of EVs and the complementary traffic. Waiting and service times in charging stations are represented by an m/m/k queuing system. The model considers multiple vehicle and driver classes, expressing different battery capacity, initial charge state and range anxiety level. Feasible paths are found for multiple classes given their limited travel range. A numerical application exemplifies the limitations of EVs assignment and their impact on flow distribution.
Modeling Route Choice with Real-Time Information: Comparing the Recursive and Non-Recursive Approaches
Xinlian Yu
Tien Mai
Jing Ding-Mastera
Song Gao
Transportation systems are inherently uncertain due to disruptions such as bad weather, incident and the randomness of traveler’s choices.… (voir plus) Real-time information allows travelers to adapt to actual traffic conditions and potentially mitigate the adverse effect of uncertainty. We study the routing policy choice problems in a stochastic time-dependent (STD) network. A routing policy is defined as a decision rule applied at the end of each link that maps the realized traffic condition to the decision on the link to take next. Two types of routing policy choice models are formulated with perfect online information (POI): recursive logit model and non-recursive logit model. In the non-recursive model, a choice set of routing policies between an origin-destination (OD) pair is generated, and a probabilistic choice is modeled at the origin, while the choice of the next link at each link is a deterministic execution of the chosen routing policy. In the recursive model, the probabilistic choice of the next link is modeled at each link, following the framework of dynamic discrete choice models. The difference between the two models results from the interplay of two sources of stochasticity, i.e., nature’s probability and choice probability. The two models are equivalent when either source of stochasticity is removed, that is, in a deterministic network (as shown in Fosgerau et al., 2013) or with deterministic choice. We use an illustrative example to explore the difference between the two models when both sources of stochasticity exist, and find that when a route has state-wise stochastic dominance over the other, the recursive model predicts more extreme choice probabilities. The relation can go either way when the two routes are non-dominated. We further compare the two models in terms of computational efficiency in estimation and prediction, and flexibility in systematic utility specification and modeling correlation.
A language processing algorithm for predicting tactical solutions to an operational planning problem under uncertainty
Eric Larsen
This paper is devoted to the prediction of solutions to a stochastic discrete optimization problem. Through an application, we illustrate ho… (voir plus)w we can use a state-of-the-art neural machine translation (NMT) algorithm to predict the solutions by defining appropriate vocabularies, syntaxes and constraints. We attend to applications where the predictions need to be computed in very short computing time -- in the order of milliseconds or less. The results show that with minimal adaptations to the model architecture and hyperparameter tuning, the NMT algorithm can produce accurate solutions within the computing time budget. While these predictions are slightly less accurate than approximate stochastic programming solutions (sample average approximation), they can be computed faster and with less variability.
Predicting Tactical Solutions to Operational Planning Problems under Imperfect Information
An empirical study on aggregation of alternatives and its influence on prediction in car type choice models
Shiva Habibi
M. Sundberg