OR-Insight (CFP)

Int. J. of Operations Research and Information Systems (CFP)

Int. J. of Data Analysis Techniques and Strategies  (CFC)

Dr. Angel A. Juan was born in Castalla (Alicante, Spain), in 1972. He is an Associate Professor of Applied Optimization, Simulation, and Data Analysis in the Computer Science Department at the Open University of Catalonia (UOC). He is also a Researcher at the Internet Interdisciplinary Institute (IN3), as well as a frequent Lecturer at the Technical University of Catalonia and at the Autonomous University of Barcelona.

Dr. Juan holds a Ph.D. in Applied Computational Mathematics (UNED), an M.S. in Information Systems & Technology (UOC), and an M.S. in Applied Mathematics (University of Valencia). He completed predoctoral internships at Harvard University and at University of Alicante, as well as a postdoctoral internship at the MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics. He has given invited seminars at the University of Southampton (UK) and at the Public University of Navarre (Spain).

His research interests include Applied Optimization, Randomized Heuristics, Computer Simulation, Educational Data Analysis, and Mathematical e-Learning. He has published over 100 peer-reviewed papers in international journals, books and proceedings regarding these fields. Currently, he is the coordinator of the CYTED-IN3-HAROSA@IB Network and editorial board member of both the Int. J. of Data Analysis Techniques and Strategies and the Int. J. of Information Systems & Social Change. He is also a member of the INFORMS society.

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“In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is.” Jan L. A. van de Snepscheut

“We use simulation to avoid making Type III errors -working on the wrong model.” David Kelton

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