Faizal HAFIZ

Postdoctoral researcher

faizal.hafiz@skema.edu

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Faizal HAFIZ

Academy

Digitalization

Research center

SKEMA Centre for Analytics and Management Science

Location

Sophia Antipolis

Discipline

Analytics Information & Operations

Faizal Hafiz received a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from The University of Auckland, New Zealand in 2020. He is currently a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at SKEMA Business School, France. He was a New Zealand International Doctoral Scholar in Computational Intelligence and Control from 2016 to 2020.

Over his career, he held the positions of a research Assistant Professor (King Saud University, Saudi Arabia, 2010-2016) and a utility Assistant Manager (Reliance Energy Ltd., India, 2008-2010). His research interests include computational intelligence, machine learning, and their applications to systems and control.

Education

2019

PhD in Computational Intelligence, Auckland University, New Zealand

Experience

Full-time academic positions

Since 2021

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, SKEMA Business School, France

Other research activities

PhD Supervision

2022

M. MUBASHIR WANI, PhD thesis, Thesis co-director

Peer-reviewed journal articles

HAFIZ, F., NAIK, C., LA TORRE, D. and SWAIN, A. (2024). Quantification of Nonstationary Power Quality Events: A New Index Based on l_p Norm of Energy. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics: Systems.

HAFIZ, F., BROEKAERT, J., LA TORRE, D. and SWAIN, A. (2024). A multi-criteria approach to evolve sparse neural architectures for stock market forecasting. Annals of Operations Research, 167(106680), pp. 1-45.

BROEKAERT, J., LA TORRE, D., HAFIZ, F. and REPETTO, M. (2024). A comparative cost assessment of coalescing epidemic control strategies in heterogeneous social-contact networks. Computers & Operations Research, 167, pp. 106680.

BROEKAERT, J., LA TORRE, D. and HAFIZ, F. (2024). Competing control scenarios in probabilistic SIR epidemics on social-contact networks. Annals of Operations Research, 336, pp. 2037-2060.

BROEKAERT, J., LA TORRE, D. and HAFIZ, F. (2024). The impact of the psychological effect of infectivity on Nash-balanced control strategies for epidemic networks. Annals of Operations Research.

HAFIZ, F., BROEKAERT, J., LA TORRE, D. and SWAIN, A. (2023). Co-evolution of Neural Architectures and Features for Stock Market Forecasting: A Multi-objective Decision Perspective. Decision Support Systems, 174, pp. 114015.

MUBASHIR WANI, M., HAFIZ, F., SWAIN, A. and BROEKAERT, J. (2023). Balancing energy consumption and thermal comfort in buildings: a multi-criteria framework. Annals of Operations Research.