Vadim Timkovsky
MS (Hons) MIEM, PhD MIEM
Senior Lecturer
vadim.timkovsky@sydney.edu.au
Room 484
H04 - Merewether
The University of Sydney
NSW 2006 Australia
Phone: +61 2 9351 3835
Fax: +61 2 9351 6409
Vadim Timkovsky's area of research is in mathematical modeling and combinatorial optimization methods with applications to risk management problems in the investment industry, scheduling problems in manufacturing, and DNA sequencing problems in computational molecular biology. His industrial experience and area of expertise focus on brokerage information systems, securities trading, option strategies, margin regulations and calculations. His teaching experience in academia is complemented by business analysis and project management jobs for large international businesses like IBM, CGI, CIBC, Sungard Securities Processing, Dynamic Mutual Funds.
He is recognized internationally for his articles on the complexity of scheduling and string matching problems published in leading international journals such as Mathematical Methods of Operations Research, 4OR, Acta Informatica, European Journal of Operational Research, Journal of Scheduling, International Journal of Mathematical Algorithms, Operations Research Letters, Journal of Combinatorial Optimization, Discrete Applied Mathematics, SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics, Theoretical Computer Science, BioSystems, Cybernetics, Economics and Mathematical Methods, Soviet Journal of Computer and System Sciences.
He is the author of a monograph on mathematical modeling for manufacturing problems in the machine-tool industry and regional economics, handbooks on operations research and discrete mathematics, and chapters in textbooks on scheduling, robotic manufacturing and computer genetics. He has been an invited speaker at many North American and European universities and a referee for leading operations research journals. In 1993 he received research awards from American Mathematical Society and Soros International Science Foundation.