Global Presence Across All Continents
The Next-Generation Decision-Making International Lab (NEDMIL) brings together experts from every continent — South America, Europe, Africa, Asia, and Oceania — fostering a truly international ecosystem of innovation in decision science, optimization, and artificial intelligence.
Our members represent leading universities and institutes from France, Brazil, Algeria, China, Iran, and Australia, ensuring that our research collaborations reflect a diverse and global perspective on complex decision-making challenges.
Members
Nelson Maculan
Lead and Honorary Coordinator
Nelson Maculan is an Emeritus Professor at Dept. of Systems Engineering and CS, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Rahimeh N Monemi
Coordinator
Rahimeh Neamatian Monemi, PhD, Adjunct Professor and Director of Predictim Globe (www.predictim-globe.com).
Karim Bouamrane
Area Lead (Regional Coordinator)
Karim Bouamrane is a Professor at LIO and the Dept. of CS, University of Oran1, Algeria specialized in DSS, multi-agent systems and logistics.
Lubin Cui
Area Lead (Regional Coordinator)
Lubin Cui, Professor at the College of Mathematics and Information Science, Henan Normal University, China.
Shahin Gelareh
Area Lead (Regional Coordinaor)
Shahin Gelareh is a senior academic specialized in optimization of mobility systems, logistics optimization, and artificial intelligence.
Pedro Gonzalez
Area Lead (Regional Coordinator)
Pedro Gonzalez is a faculty member at Dept. of Systems Engineering and Computer Science, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Rodney Beard
Area Lead (Regional Coordinator)
Rodney Beard is a lead researcher at the Pingla Institute, Australia and Fiji, Canada and focuses on natural resources.
Xia Yong
Area Lead (Regional Coordinator)
Dr. Yong Xia is a Full Professor of Math. Sci. at Beihang University, specializing in global optimization, integer programming, and ML
Hossein Karimi
Area Lead (Regional Coordinator)
Dr. Hosein Karimi is an Associate Professor of Industrial Eng, at the Univ. of Bojnord in Iran, whose work primarily focuses on hub location problems and supply chain systems.
Yuan Jinyun
Area Lead
Yuan Jingyun is an academician of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences and Professor at Dongguan University of Technology, specializing in numerical computation, operations optimization, and related applications.
Djamila Hamdadou
Area Lead
Khadidja Hamdadou is the director of the LIO and Professor at the University of Oran 1, Algeria working on Artificial Intelligence, Decision Support Systems, Multi-Criteria Analysis
Xinguang Yang
Area Lead
Professor Yang Xinguang focus is on theoretical modeling and control of nonlinear systems. His work is applied to fluid-structure interaction problems, such as those in aero-engines and dams.
Yves Van Seters
Stakeholder Engagement & Ecosystem
Yves Van Seters is an accomplished professional with a diverse background. he has held various leadership roles focused on communication, external relations, and ecosystem development.
Khadidja Yachba
Area Lead
Khadidja Yachba is a Full Professor in Computer Science at the Oran Higher School of Economics and a researcher at the LIO, Univ. of Oran 1 Ahmed Benbella, Algeria specialized in decision support systems and multimodal logistics.
Kaouter Labed
Area Lead
Kaouter Labed is a Professor in Computer Science at the Oran Higher School of Economics and a researcher at the LIO, Univ. of Oran 1 Ahmed Benbella, Algeria specialized in decision support systems and multimodal logistics.
Minghui Li
Faculty Member
Dr. Minghui Li is a faculty member at the School of Mathematics and Statistics, Henan Univ. of Sci. and Tech., China specialized in tensor computation, optimization, and multilinear algebra methods for high-dim data analysis.
Nannan Chen
PhD Student
Chen Nannan is a Ph.D. student in the School of Mathematics and Statistics at Henan Normal University focusing on computational mathematics, specifically addressing traffic optimization problems.
Xinru Wang
Researcher
Wang Xinru is a researcher at the School of Mathematics and Statistics of Henan Normal University. She is developing expertise in Computational Mathematics in particular Deep Learning and Graph Machine Learning.
Bingge Luo
Researcher
Luo Bingge is a researcher at the School of Mathematics and Statistics at Henan Normal University, specializing in computational science mainly focuses on single-cell multi-omics clustering tasks.
Shujing Yang
PhD Student
Shujing Yang is a doctoral student at the School of Mathematics and Statistics of Henan Normal University specializing in numerical solutions of differential equations.
Muyan Li
Researcher
Li Muyan, is a researcher at the School of Mathematics and Statistics at Henan Normal University working in the area of partial differential equations and functional analysis.