CV
Current Position
- August 2024 – present:Assistant Professor, Concordia University, Canada Mechanical, Industrial and Aerospace Engineering Department, Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science
Past Positions
October 2022 – July 2024:Post-Doctoral Fellow, HEC Montréal and GERAD, Canada Supervisors: Prof. Fausto Errico, Prof. Jorge Mendoza, and Prof. Carolina Osorio
April 2021 – September 2022:Post-Doctoral Fellow, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Supervisors: Prof. Ola Jabali and Prof. Federico Malucelli
Education
2017 – 2021:Ph.D. in Information Technology, area “Systems and Control”, cum laude Politecnico di Milano, Italy Dissertation: Demand-Driven Timetabling Optimization for Automated Metro Lines Supervisors: Prof. Ola Jabali and Prof. Federico Malucelli
2014 – 2017:Master of Science in Automation and Control Engineering, cum laude (GPA 29.7/30) Politecnico di Milano, Italy Thesis: Optimizing the Scheduling of a Pick and Place Robotic System
2011 – 2014:Bachelor of Science in Automation Engineering, cum laude (GPA 29.6/30) Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Publications
Yan, F., Cubillos, M., Jabali, O., & Schettini, T. (2025). Simulation-based pattern timetabling for short-turning trains in a metro network. IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Society Conference.
Shi, J., Schettini, T., & Jabali, O. (2025). Demand allocation policies for the charging station location and sizing problem. INFOR: Information Systems and Operational Research.
Candiani, M., Malucelli, F., Pascoal, M., & Schettini, T. (2024). Optimizing the integration of express bus services with micro-mobility: a case study. Transportation Research Procedia.
Schettini, T., Gendreau, M., Jabali, O., & Malucelli, F. (2024). A pattern-based timetabling strategy for a short-turning metro line. Public Transport, 16(1), 1–37.
Schettini, T., Gendreau, M., Jabali, O., & Malucelli, F. (2023). A heuristic algorithm for the capacitated demand-driven metro timetabling problem. Transportation Science, 57(5), 1379–1401.
Schettini, T., dell'Amico, M., Fumero, F., Jabali, O., & Malucelli, F. (2023). Locating and sizing electric vehicle chargers considering multiple technologies. Energies, 16(10), 4186.
Schettini, T., Malucelli, F., & Ramalhinho Lourenço, H. (2022). Scheduling a pick and place packaging line. Journal of Scheduling, 1099–1425.
Schettini, T., Jabali, O., & Malucelli, F. (2022). Demand-driven timetabling for a metro corridor using a short-turning acceleration strategy. Transportation Science, 56(4), 919–937.
Schettini, T., Jabali, O., & Malucelli, F. (2022). A Benders decomposition algorithm for demand-driven metro scheduling. Computers & Operations Research, 138, 105598.
Fornasiero, M., Malucelli, F., Pazzi, R., & Schettini, T. (2021). Empowering optimization skills through an orienteering competition. INFORMS Transactions on Education, 22(1), 1–8.
Schettini, T., Jabali, O., & Malucelli, F. (2021). Metro scheduling for special events. Transportation Research Procedia, 52, 147–154.
Talks
July 24, 2024
Talk at ISMP 2024 (International Symposium on Mathematical Programming), Montreal, Canada
May 19, 2024
Talk at Odysseus 2024, Seville, Spain
May 06, 2024
Talk at JOPT - Optimization Days 2024, Montreal, Canada
September 06, 2023
Talk at 25th EURO Working Group on Transportation (EWGT2023), Santander, Spain
May 29, 2023
Talk at CORS / Optimization Days 2023, Montréal, Canada
April 19, 2023
Talk at Meet a GERAD Researcher, Montréal, Canada
May 04, 2022
Talk at ODYSSEUS 2021, Tangier, Morocco
July 19, 2021
Talk at INFORMS TSL Workshop 2021, Online
September 16, 2020
Talk at 23rd EURO Working Group on Transportation (EWGT2020), Paphos, Cyprus
March 22, 2018
Talk at 19th EU/ME Workshop on Metaheuristics for Industry, Geneva, Switzerland
July 04, 2017
Talk at 12th Metaheuristics International Conference (MIC 2017), Doctoral Colloquium, Barcelona, Spain
Teaching
Grants and Awards
- 2025–2030:NSERC Discovery Grant ($190,000 total / $38,000/year), Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada:Principal Investigator
- 2025–2030:NSERC Discovery Launch Supplement ($12,500), Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada:Principal Investigator
- 2017–2021:”OPEN SUBJECT Research Field: SYSTEMS AND CONTROL - 33rd cycle” Ph.D. Scholarship, Italian Ministry of University and Research (MUR), Politecnico di Milano
- 2017:”Thesis Abroad” Grant, Politecnico di Milano (academic year 2016/2017)
- 2011–2016:Italian National Research Council Scholarship (academic years 2011/2012–2015/2016)
- 2011–2016:Partial Fees Exemption for Merit, Politecnico di Milano
- 2012:”Premio le migliori matricole dell’A.A. 2011/2012” (Best Freshmen Award, Politecnico di Milano)
Supervision and Mentorship
- 2026 – Present:Rashique Itquan, MASc Student, Concordia University (Principal Supervisor)
- 2026 – Present:Daniela Quila, Ph.D. Student, Concordia University (Co-Supervisor with Prof. Onur Kuzgundaya)
- 2025 – Present:Fatemeh Homayouni, MASc Student, Concordia University (Principal Supervisor)
- 2025 – Present:Jon Butkovich, Undergraduate Student, Concordia University (Co-Supervisor with Prof. Christopher Yee Wong)
- 2025 – Present:Ziyuan Sun, Ph.D. Student, Concordia University (Co-Supervisor with Prof. Claudio Contardo and Prof. Jean-François Cordeau)
- 2025 – Present:Linyun He, Post-doctoral Fellow, HEC Montréal (Co-Supervisor with Prof. Fausto Errico, Prof. Jorge Mendoza, and Prof. Carolina Osorio)
- 2025 – Present:Bolong Zhou, Visiting Ph.D. Student, HKUST (Ad-Hoc Advisor; Supervisor: Prof. Ola Jabali)
- 2024 – Present:Simin Chai, Visiting Ph.D. Student, Politecnico di Milano (Ad-Hoc Supervisor; Supervisor: Prof. Ola Jabali)
- 2023 – 2024:Fei Yan, Visiting Ph.D. Student (Completed), Beijing Jiaotong University (Ad-Hoc Supervisor; Supervisor: Prof. Ola Jabali)
- 2022 – 2024:Shi Jianli, Post-doctoral Fellow (Completed), Politecnico di Milano (Co-Supervisor with Prof. Ola Jabali)
- 2021 – 2022:Manuel Candiani, Master Thesis (Completed), Politecnico di Milano (Co-Supervisor with Prof. Federico Malucelli)
- 2020:Guendalina Biava, Master Thesis (Completed), Politecnico di Milano (Co-Supervisor with Prof. Federico Malucelli)
Service
Reviewer for International Journals
- Computers & Operations Research
- European Journal of Operational Research
- IET Intelligent Transport Systems
- INFOR: Information Systems and Operational Research
- INFORMS Journal on Computing
- INFORMS Transactions on Education
- International Transactions in Operational Research
- Networks
- Omega
- Public Transport
- Transportation Research Part B: Methodological
- Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies
- Transportation Science
Reviewer for International Conferences
Technical Skills
- Programming: C/C++, C#, Matlab/Simulink, Python, Java, Julia
- Optimization tools: AMPL, CPLEX callable libraries, Gurobi, JuMP, ORtools, SCIP
- Other: LaTeX, Matcont, Modelica
Languages
- Italian (mother tongue)
- English (fluent)
- French (beginner)