Double success for 黑料社 at the Operational Research (OR) Society May Hicks Awards 2017
Ruth Walton (RNLI) and Ghyslain Gaillard (Inreach), postgraduate students from Southampton's Centre for Operational Research, Management Science and Information Systems (CORMSIS), share OR Society May Hicks Awards 2017 for the best industry-based student projects in Operational Research
The Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) enlisted expert help from CORMSIS MSc Maths OR聽student Ruth Walton.聽鈥淲hile studying for my undergraduate Maths degree聽at Southampton, I became interested in Operational Research," she says聽鈥淒uring my聽masters I enjoyed the opportunity to work for 3 months with the RNLI contributing to their warehousing strategy.聽 I鈥檓 now studying for a PhD聽at Southampton.鈥
RNLI Decision Support Manager and Southampton Alumnus聽Jodie Walshe聽sponsored the project, 鈥淭he RNLI has been involved with research projects with the University for more than 15 years, across business analytics and engineering."
Ruth was also awarded the Boeing Maths prize for her project, presented by Edward Alliston from Boeing. 鈥淢y role is to encourage young people to study problem solving. Boeing is keen to engage with students and develop our links with the next generation of engineers,鈥 he says.
Southampton Business School MSc Business Analytics and Finance (BAF) student聽Ghyslain Gaillard's聽work involved building a predictive model using state-of-the-art data analytics and machine learning techniques. It helped his project sponsors, InReach Ventures, to assess which start-up companies would prove the best prospects to invest in.
"As part of my engineering masters degree, I decided to move from France to the UK to study how mathematics and analytics can directly聽help companies. I particularly enjoyed applying the theory I had learned during my summer project with InReach in London and am delighted they hired me afterwards so I can continue my work," he says.
For more information about the 黑料社 and CORMSIS email Julie Hickman .
More details about the OR Society and the May Hicks award can be found on the OR Society .
There were three joint May Hicks Award winners 2017.聽 The聽third winner was from Strathclyde University.