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Maximilian SCHIFFER

Associate Professor

Information Systems and Operations Management

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Scientific articles

Contextual Stochastic Vehicle Routing with Time Windows

INFORMS Journal on Computing, Forthcoming, (in coll. with B. Serrano, A. M. Florio, S. Minner, T. Vidal)

A Note on Piecewise Affine Decision Rules for Robust, Stochastic, and Data-Driven Optimization

Operations Research, Forthcoming, (in coll. with S. Thomä, W. Wiesemann)

Analyzing the potentials of car-free zones in Munich

European Journal of Operational Research, Forthcoming, (in coll. with V. Stadnichuk, G. Walther)

Ambulance demand prediction via convolutional neural networks

Operations Research, Data Analytics and Logistics, June 2026, vol. 46, n° 200497, (in coll. with M. Rautenstrauss)

Mitigating retail platform externalities via inter-supplier returns

European Journal of Operational Research, May 2026, vol. 331, n° 1, pp 92-107, (in coll. with C. J. Liepold, P. Amorim)

Dynamic capacity allocation of hybrid transportation units for cargo-hitching in urban public transportation systems

Transportation Research Part B: Methodological, April 2026, vol. 206, n° 103412, (in coll. with P. Bischoff, B. Lienkamp, T. Rambha)

A decomposition-based approach for large-scale pickup and delivery problems

European Journal of Operational Research, September 2026, vol. 333, n° 3, pp 746-761, (in coll. with G. Hiermann)

Reproducibility in the Control of Autonomous Mobility-on-Demand Systems

IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 2026, vol. 42, pp 1428-1447, (in coll. with X. Li, M. Alharbi, D. Gammelli, J. Harrison, F. Rodrigues, M. Pavone, E. Frazzoli, J. Zhao, G. Zardini)

Learning-Based Online Optimization for Autonomous Mobility-on-Demand Fleet Control

INFORMS Journal on Computing, May - June 2026, vol. 38, n° 3, pp 745-765, (in coll. with K. Jungel, A. Parmentier, T. Vidal)

It’s All in the Mix: Technology choice between driverless and human-driven vehicles in sharing systems

European Journal of Operational Research, August 2025, vol. 324, n° 3, pp 969-980, (in coll. with L. Martin, S. Minner, M. Pavone)

Proceedings

Structured Reinforcement Learning for Combinatorial Decision-Making

39th annual conference on Neural Information Processing Systems , 2025 (H. HOPPE, L. BATY, L. BOUVIER, A. PARMENTIER)

Enhancement of Vendor-Managed Inventory Planning Through Deep Reinforcement Learning

2024 Winter Simulation Conference (WSC) , 2024 , Orlando (M. Ratusny, J. H. Kim, H. Sekiya, H. Ehm)

Working papers

Scientific articles

A decomposition-based approach for large-scale pickup and delivery problems

European Journal of Operational Research, September 2026, vol. 333, n° 3, pp 746-761, (in coll. with G. Hiermann)

Ambulance demand prediction via convolutional neural networks

Operations Research, Data Analytics and Logistics, June 2026, vol. 46, n° 200497, (in coll. with M. Rautenstrauss)

Dynamic capacity allocation of hybrid transportation units for cargo-hitching in urban public transportation systems

Transportation Research Part B: Methodological, April 2026, vol. 206, n° 103412, (in coll. with P. Bischoff, B. Lienkamp, T. Rambha)

Learning-Based Online Optimization for Autonomous Mobility-on-Demand Fleet Control

INFORMS Journal on Computing, May - June 2026, vol. 38, n° 3, pp 745-765, (in coll. with K. Jungel, A. Parmentier, T. Vidal)

Proceedings

Structured Reinforcement Learning for Combinatorial Decision-Making

39th annual conference on Neural Information Processing Systems , 2025 (H. HOPPE, L. BATY, L. BOUVIER, A. PARMENTIER)

Enhancement of Vendor-Managed Inventory Planning Through Deep Reinforcement Learning

2024 Winter Simulation Conference (WSC) , 2024 , Orlando (M. Ratusny, J. H. Kim, H. Sekiya, H. Ehm)

Working papers

Education

  • Ph.D. (with honors) in Operations Research, RWTH Aachen University - Germany

Academic appointments

Academic Responsibilities at HEC

  • 2026- Associate Professor HEC Paris

External Academic Responsibilities

  • 2022-2022 Professor for Business Analytics and Intelligent Systems Technical University of Munich_TUM

Scientific Activities

Membership in Academic or Professional Organisation

  • Member : German Society of Operations Research (GOR), Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), Deutscher Hochschullehrer Verband (DHV), Verband der Hochschullehrer fur Betriebswirtschaftslehre (VHB)

Editorial activities

  • 2021- Editorial advisory board member (early career) Transportation Research Part C

  • Awards & honors

    • 2025 Paper of the Year 2024 Award, INFORMS Transportation Science
    • 2025 Best Paper Award, LION19 The 19th Learning and Intelligent Optimization Conference