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profesor titular (tenured associate professor) of Operations Research and Statistics

Department of Statistics
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
Avda. Universidad 30
28911 Leganés (Madrid), Spain
E-mail: jose.nino[at]uc3m.es; Fax: +34-91-6249430                                                          

Background: Licenciado in Mathematical Sciences, Univ. Complutense de Madrid (extraordinary Complutense graduation prize in the area of Experimental Sciences). PhD '95 in Operations Research, picture MIT. Fulbright graduate fellow. CORE and Marie Curie (European Union) postdoctoral fellow. Ramón y Cajal Researcher . I3 Program endowment. My cv.

Some publications:

  • Niño-Mora, J. (2007). [pdf]. Dynamic priority allocation via restless bandit marginal productivity indices. TOP, vol. 15 no. 2, 161-198. (Invited review article accompanied by six discussions by I. J. B. F. Adan and O. J. Boxma, E. Altman, O. Hernández-Lerma, R. Weber, P. Whittle, and D. Yao, followed by a rejoinder ). (TOP: A Springer Journal of Operations Research created by the Spanish Society of Statistics and Operations Research)
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  • MathSciNet
  • Research:

  • design and analysis of near-optimal index policies for dynamic resource allocation in Markov decision process models of a variety of systems

  • restless bandit indexation: theory, algorithms and applications

  • stochastic scheduling; see J. Niño-Mora (2009). Stochastic scheduling. In Encyclopedia of Optimization, 2nd edition, C.A. Floudas and P.M. Pardalos, eds., pp. 3818--3824. Springer, New York.

  • multiclass queueing systems: scheduling and control; see J. Niño-Mora (2009). Klimov's model. In Wiley Encyclopedia of Operations Research and Management Science, J.J. Cochran (Editor-in-Chief). Wiley.

  • conservation laws; see J. Niño-Mora (2009). Conservation laws and related applications. In Wiley Encyclopedia of Operations Research and Management Science, J.J. Cochran (Editor-in-Chief). Wiley.

  • linear programming approach to Markov decision processes

  • PI of the Operations Research Group at UC3M, supported by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation's project MTM2007-63140 ("Optimization Methods and Models for Dynamic and Stochastic Systems", 2007-2010), by the Autonomous Community of Madrid-UC3M's grant CCG07-UC3M/ESP-3389, integrated in the national research network i-math. The OR group has been a team member of the EU's networks of excellence Euro-NGI and Euro-FGI.

    For prospective PhD students: The Statistics Department offers PhD studentships on a competitive basis, to pursue doctoral studies in one of the following programs: The Master and PhD programs in Business Administration and Quantitative Methods and the Master and PhD programs in Mathematical Engineering.