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Faizal HAFIZ

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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

BROEKAERT, J., HAFIZ, F., LA TORRE, D. and JAYARAMAN, R. (2025). Managing resilience and viability of supranational supply chains under epidemic control scenarios. Omega, 133, pp. 103234.
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, 54(12), pp. 7457 - 7471.
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.