me

Welcome!


My name is Dimitris Souravlias and I am with the Port of Rotterdam where I work as a data scientist. Prior to that I was a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Maritime and Transport Technology, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands, and the Logistics Management Department, Helmut-Schmidt University, Hamburg, Germany. I hold a PhD from the Department of Computer Science & Engineering, University of Ioannina, Greece. During my PhD studies, I spent two months at the Heuristic and Evolutionary Algorithms Laboratory, University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria, Hagenberg, Austria where I worked as a research intern.

News:

  • I gave a presentation titled "From Vision to Action: Designing and Deploying Computer Vision Pipelines" together with my colleagues at the 16th Rotterdam Data Science meetup, which took place on February 1, 2024, at the Port of Rotterdam.
  • I gave a guest lecture and conducted a hands-on workshop on graph databases, in particular Neo4j, for the students of the Bachelor Program "Applied Data Science & Artficial Intelligence" at Hogeschool Rotterdam on December 18, 2023.
  • From November 13 to November 17, 2023, I participated in the Port of Rotterdam training titled "Product to Production", where we learned how we can bring our data science products to production following best practices and established procedures.
  • Our paper titled "Hybrid Differential Evolution Algorithm for the Resource Constrained Project Scheduling Problem with a Flexible Project Structure and Consumption and Production of Resources" has been accepted to the European Journal of Operational Research.
  • I have passed the certification exam, and I am now a Neo4j certified professional.
  • I am very excited to share that I joined the Port of Rotterdam as a data scientist.
  • Our book titled "Algorithm Portfolios: Advances, Applications, and Challenges" has been accepted to SpringerBriefs in Optimization Series.
  • I gave a guest lecture on Metaheuristics for the MSc course Quantitative Methods for Logistics, Department of Maritime and Transport Technology, Delft University of Technology, on December 16, 2020.
  • Our paper titled "Design Framework for a Modular Floating Container Terminal" has been accepted to the Journal of Frontiers in Marine Science, Ocean Solutions.
  • Two papers have been accepted to the International Conference on Computational Logistics, ICCL 2020, Twente, The Netherlands.
    • Platooning of Automated Ground Vehicles to Connect Port and Hinterland: A Multi-Objective Optimization Approach
    • Pickup and Delivery Problem with Transshipment for Inland Waterway Transport
  • I have started working on a new research project, titled "Platform-Based Cooperation Models for Automated Transportation and Logistics".
  • I have co-organized a workshop that took place at the Port of Antwerp on January 29, 2020. The workshop was in the context of the Horizon 2020 Space@Sea project.
  • I gave a guest lecture on Metaheuristics for the M.Sc. course Quantitative Methods for Logistics, Department of Maritime and Transport Technology, Delft University of Technology, on December 17, 2019.
  • Dr. Neil Yorke-Smith has invited me to present my research at the breakout session of the Tracks in Transport conference, Delft University of Technology, on November 6, 2019.
  • Our paper titled "Stochastic floating quay crane scheduling on offshore platforms: a simheuristic approach" has been accepted to the 21th International Conference on Harbor, Maritime and Multimodal Logistic Modelling and Simulation, HMS 2019, Lisbon, Portugal.
  • I have served as a member of the Program Committee of the 3rd International Conference on Intelligent Traffic and Transportation, ICITT 2019, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
  • Dr. Yingqian Zhang has invited me to present my research at the Information Systems (IS) group, Eindhoven University of Technology, on September 24, 2019.