David Franco

Industrial Engineer from the Pontifical Catholic University of Paraná (2008/2012) and Master in Production and Systems Engineering also from the Pontifical Catholic University of Paraná (2013/2015). PhD in Production and Systems Engineering at Pontifical Catholic University of Paraná (2015/2019). Works in the area of Production Engineering, with emphasis on Operations Research, sub-areas: Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Productive Systems; Decision-making processes; Time Series Analysis and Forecasting; Intelligent Systems (Artificial Neural Networks); Mathematical Programming and Optimization (Linear, Integer, Mixed and Non-Linear Programming; Global Optimization: Genetic Algorithms, Simulated Annealing, Tabu Search, Direct Search, Multiobjective Optimization, Swarm Optimization, among other techniques); and Data Mining (Big Data).