Wolfgang Garn

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About Wolfgang Garn

Dr. Wolfgang Garn was Programme director of Business Analytics and Acting Head of the Business Transformation Department at the University of Surrey. His research interests are in the area of Operations Research and Business Analytics. He is currently working and leading a project in the industry that involves optimisations of delivery services. Recently he has embarked in a government project to improve the transportation network. He is presently investigating the economic feasibility of delivery drone services (DDS). Formerly a Management Scientist at Telekom Austria in the Department of Operations Research. His duties entailed Network Optimisations, Transportation, Market Analysis amongst others. One of his major achievements was a nationwide transition strategy from a copper to a fibre network. At the Defence Technology Centre (DTC) he worked on Agent and Decision Support Systems for MoD funded research. One of the outcomes enabled autonomous agents to evaluate and act on military effects using Artificial Intelligence. His role as Senior Scientist and Project Manager for Eurobios involved him with key clients such as Serco, Biffa, Unilever, DHL and BP. In this context solutions for environmental and delivery services were implemented. He is the CEO and founder of Smartana, which offers SMART Analytics solutions and consulting services to businesses. He is a member of the Institute for Operations Research and Management Sciences, and the Society for Modeling & Simulation. He earned his PhD in Simulation and Optimisation of Telecommunication processes at the Vienna University of Technology, in the area of Technical Mathematics and Computer Science. Interests- Logistics, transportation, routing, scheduling, drone delivery services - Management science, network flows, meta heuristics - Applied Mathematics, Artificial Intelligence, Decision Support Systems, Bayesian Networks, Discrete event simulation, Queueing Systems, Statistical Learning