Team and organization

Parvathy Krishnan is the Chief Technology Officer at ABW and focuses on impact projects, technology strategy, and the open-source data products’ repository.

Dick den Hertog is Science to Impact Director at ABW, focusing on the academic journal, meet-ups, research projects and the academy.

Robert Monné is Managing Director of ABW and focuses on strategy, partnership building and developing the institute.

Prior to joining Analytics for a Better World, Tessa worked in the transport and logistics industry for 15 years, the last 7 years in leadership positions. Tessa completed her MSc from the TU Delft in Transport, Infrastructure and Logistics in 2008. She started her career at TNT Express in the field of operations research, implementing optimization projects globally and joining the management team of the global training program ‘global optimisation academy’. In the last 3 years at TNT she lived and worked in France, working on large infrastructural projects in and for the French organization. She continued her French adventure at Fontainebleau where she did a full-time MBA at INSEAD in 2016. After her MBA, she was business unit manager for the processing division of H&S Group consisting of a cleaning and filling station, a cold store and a juice factory. In 2022 she joined DFDS as managing director for the logistics division. Tessa was raised in the UK and with her international experience and education she enjoys working in multi-cultural environments. She is passionate about digitization, sustainability and diversity and wants to drive long-term value, creating stability and putting people first.

Dimitris Bertsimas is Science to Impact Director at ABW, focusing on the academic journal, meet-ups, research projects and the academy.

Claudia is a scientist and engineer whose work leverages the power of machine learning, natural language processing, social network analysis, and opinion mining to unveil patterns of engagement, attention, and influence on the digital era.

Britt van Veggel is a PhD student at the University of Amsterdam. Her research focusses on advanced analytics to contribute to the Sustainable Development Goals

Joaquim Gromicho is Science and Education Officer at ORTEC and Professor of Business Analytics at the University of Amsterdam. At ABW, he is contributing to Research projects as a PhD/MSc supervisor, as a lecturer in the ABW Academy and in advanced analytics projects as the Lead Architect, specializing in prescriptions from large scale data driven mathematical optimization models.

Jean is an Assistant Professor of Business Analytics at London Business School. In his research, he develops methods for large-scale optimization, optimization under uncertainty and machine learning, and applies them to hospital management and sustainable operations.

Baizhi is a PhD student in Management Science and Operations at London Business School. His research interests involve data-driven decision-making, optimization under uncertainty and other topics from the intersection of machine learning and optimization.

Associate Professor at the Department of Operations Management, at the University of Amsterdam. He has completed his PhD from the University of Twente in the area of Coordination in Software Development. He holds a master’s degree in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. In the past, he has worked for three years as a software engineer. His research interests are in the area of business intelligence (using machine learning), open-source development (through mining software repositories), and applying analytics in projects that focus on the UN’s sustainable development goals.

Assistant Professor of Statistics in the Business Analytics Section of the University of Amsterdam. As a statistician and data scientist, my research interests lie in developing efficient computational methods for inference and learning from high-dimensional multivariate data in econometrics, machine learning, neuroscience, and health care. My current research is focused on developing Bayesian statistical methods in graphical models for multivariate statistical analysis to understand the underlying mechanisms in complex systems. These methods have many applications, such as health care to capture brain connectivity to treat Alzheimer's.

Justin Starreveld is a PhD student at the University of Amsterdam. His research looks at the optimization of investment decision regarding the production, storage and transportation of hydrogen in the Netherlands. The goal of this research project is to ensure that the investment strategy is robust to uncertainty regarding future developments in technology, economics, policymaking, etc.

Zihang Qiu is a PhD candidate at the University of Amsterdam. His research focuses on online adaptive treatment planning for proton radiotherapy.