Management Science awarded US Air Force Grant

Professor Kerem Akartunali and Shona Blair from the Department of Management Science have been awarded a $45k research grant from the US Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR).

The grant will support the three-year research project "Bridging Robust Optimization, Empirical Bayes and Data Analytics", where the Management Science team will explore the fascinating interface between machine learning/data science, statistics and optimisation.  

The team plans to apply their findings to practical cases stemming from industry, such as in classical manufacturing and non-renewable energy systems.  The grant will also provide partial support to a new PhD student.

Published: 25 September 2025