Reginald Dewil Email & Phone Number

Leuven, Flanders, BE

Belgium

Belgium

Leuven, Flemish Region, Belgium

Researching heuristic and metaheuristic optimization models for production scheduling and routing in Industry 4.0. Teaching bachelor and master courses in the faculty of Industrial Engineering Technology.

Leuven, Belgium

Problem modeling, algorithm design and implementation for a variety of complex practical problems: Applications: Advanced machine scheduling algorithms for the smart factory (industry 4.0): - egg packing stations - Operations scheduling for human-robot collaborative production cells - Scheduling in the sheet metal workshop 4.0Vehicle Routing for electric.

Development and implementation of optimization algorithms for Vehicle Routing Problems taking into account time windows, multiple capacities, pickup-and-delivery constraints, timespan and many more. Development of optimization framework for independent routing of drivers, tractors, and trailers. Development of optimization engine for prison transport.

Leuven, Belgium

• Development of a control algorithm for AGV routing in an order picking warehouse operating in an e-commerce environment.
• Software development in Java: business game played by master students as part of the course Leadership and Management.
• Algorithm design for determining the optimal 3D-part unfolding for sheet metal production. Parallel multi-objective enumeration algorithm.

• Conducted research on heuristics to generate tool paths for laser cutters.- The laser cutting tool path problem with many (but not all) of its technical constraints can be remodeled as a precedence constrained.
• Formulated and tested a set of MIP models in Cplex and designed and tested a set of (meta)heuristics for generating laser cutter tool paths.
• Software development in C++: implementing a laser cutting tool path generation software delivering the complete cycle: starting from a.dxf nested plate (parts recognition), generating the tool paths to NC/.xml machine.
• Implemented a transient Finite Difference Method to evaluate heat transfer during cutting and incorporated this as a sub routine in the above optimization framework.
• Reformulation of a patrol routing problem into a well-known polynomial problem which mistakenly was thought to be NP-hard.
• Reviewer of the International Journal of Production Research.

• Supported Testing phase for an Oracle Lodestar implementation at a Belgian energy supplier (analyst at Accenture).
• Training material preparation in Berlin, Germany for an SAP implementation at a bus/train manufacturer (analyst at Accenture).
• Business case analysis for Business Intelligence Software implementation at major Belgian retailer: Oracle Hyperion vs SAP BI (analyst at Accenture).

• Internship in preparation of my thesis work during the academic year of 2006-2007 on the optimization of a process to deposit organic semiconductors from solution in order to produce working transistors.
• Lab and clean-room experience with vacuum and solution deposition techniques.

Phd, Engineering

PhD thesis: On Generating Tool Paths for Laser Cutters

Master In Industrial Management, Transportation & Logistics, Cum Laude

Thesis: Improvement of Forecast Accuracy Time series clustering and analysis using SPSS utilized for time series forecasting.

Master In Industrial Sciences, Chemistry, Cum Laude

Thesis: Optimization of Deposition of Organic Semiconductors from Solution • Lab and clean-room experience with vacuum and solution.