Work
Research Fellow, University of Southampton
November 2020 - present
- Working alongside Dr Carlos Lamas-Fernández, Dr Antonio Martinez-Sykora, and Dr Christine Currie
- ESRC Impact Acceleration Account project “Increasing productivity in the domiciliary care sector through automated routing and scheduling of carers”
Education
PhD in Mathematics, Cardiff University
October 2016 - November 2020
- Fully funded by Cardiff University and EPSRC
- Supervised by Dr Rhyd Lewis and Dr Jonathan Thompson
- Research field: Algorithms and Heuristics, Combinatorial Optimisation, Bin Packing, Graph Theory
- Thesis: Exact and Evolutionary Algorithms for the Score-Constrained Packing Problem
BSc Mathematics, Operational Research and Statistics, Cardiff University
September 2013 - June 2016
- First Class Honours
Professional Memberships
- Candidate Associate of The Operational Research Society (CandORS)
- Associate Member of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications (AMIMA)
- Member of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) - Cardiff University Student Chapter
Publications
- Palmer, G.I., Knight, V.A., Harper, P.R., Hawa, A.L. (2017): Ciw: An open source discrete event simulation library - Journal of Simulation
- Hawa, A.L., Lewis, R., Thompson, J.M. (2018): Heuristics for the Score-Constrained Strip-Packing Problem - Combinatorial Optimization and Applications
- Hawa, A.L., Lewis, R., Thompson, J.M. (2020): Exact and Approximate Methods for the Score-Constrained Packing Problem - Under review with the European Journal of Operational Research
Presentations
- A Brief Overview on the Minimum Score Separation Problem - South Wales Operational Research Discussion Society (SWORDS) Meeting, October 2017
- Heuristics for the Score-Constrained Strip-Packing Problem - The 12th International Conference on Combinatorial Optimization and its Applications, Atlanta, USA, December 2018
Responsibilites
- Interschool Postgraduate Representative for Cardiff University School of Mathematics, October 2016 - September 2017
- STEM Ambassador, November 2017 - present
Outreach
- Mathematics Summer School at the University of Namibia - Cardiff University Phoenix Project, January 2017
Skills
- C++
- Xpress Mosel
- LaTeX
- Version control using Git
- Windows, macOS and Linux operating systems