Vitaly A. Strusevich

Dr Vitaly Strusevich is a Professor of Operational Research in the Department of Mathematical Sciences of the University of Greenwich, London, UK. He holds two PhD degrees, one from the Belarusian Academy of Sciences (1982) and the other from Erasmus University, The Netherlands (1991). He was a member of the team of six researchers awarded The State Prize of the Republic of Belarus in Science and Technology (1998), the highest award of the country of his origin. Professor Strusevich has published more than 120 papers in referred journals and several books, including Scheduling Theory, and in Multi-Stage Systems, which appeared in English in 1994. He acted as a guest editor for six special issues, the two most recent ones in Journal of Scheduling and Annals of Operations Research. Currently, he is an Associate Editor of Omega. He participated in organising several conferences on scheduling, planning and combinatorial optimisation, and as the main organiser or the programme committee member. His main research interests are in combinatorial optimization, including scheduling theory, non-linear Boolean programming and optimization under submodular constraints. 
Dr Kabir Rustogi is currently working in the Logistics industry in New Delhi, India, as an Operational Research scientist. Formerly, he was a Senior Lecturer of Operational Research in the Department of Mathematical Sciences of the University of Greenwich, London, UK. He received his PhD from Greenwich in 2013 for his work on machine scheduling with changing processing times, which also won him the prestigious O.R. Society Best PhD Award in the United Kingdom. He has published his work in several high impact journals and is widely cited, even at an early stage of his career. His previous degrees include an MSc in Operational Research from the University of Edinburgh and a BTech in Engineering Physics from the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi.