- 2002-2018: Research Professor (Project leader), Mathematical Institute, Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Belgrade, Serbia.
- 2013-2016: Professor (International chair)
LAMIH, University of Valenciennes,
Valenciennes, France.
- 2005-2013:Reader School of Mathematics, Brunel University, West London, United Kingdom.
- 2005: Senior Lecturer School of Mathematics, University of Birmingham, United Kingdom.
- 2000-2002: Higher Scientific Associate, Mathematical Institute, Serbian Academy of Science, Belgrade, Yugoslavia.
- 1993-2000: Professional Researcher, GERAD, University of Montreal, Canada.
- 1988-1993: Associate professor, Faculty of Organizational Sciences, University of Belgrade
- 1985-1988: Assistant professor, Faculty of Organizational Sciences, University of Belgrade for Econometrics Methods and Decision Making.
- 1976-1985: Teacher at Mathematical High School (students 17-19 years old)
- 2012 Visiting Professor, Kuwait University, Kuwait, (one week visit);
- 2009-2010 Visiting Professor, Beihang University, Beijing, (2 times one month visit);
- 2008-2012 Visiting Professor, LAMIH-Recherche Operationnelle et Informatique, Universite de Valenciennes, France (5 times one month visit);
- 2003-2011 Visiting Professor, School of Management, Royal Military College, Kingston, Canada (eight times one month visit).
- 2002-2007 Visiting Professor, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Dept. of Management, Hong Kong (five times one month visit).
- 1999-2002 Visiting Professor, School of Business Administration, University of Princ Edwards Island, Canada (four times one month visit);
- 2001 Visiting Professor, Service de Mathématiques de la Gestion, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium (three months);
- 1994-1996 Visiting Professor, Faculty of Mathematics, University of La Laguna, Spain (three times one month visit);
- Leadership, grants, awords,...
- Member of Academia Europaea, "The Academy of Europe", from 2012 -
- Member of Serbian Scientific Socity , from 2003 -
- President of Yugoslav Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics (from 2001-);
- Lecturing at in ASMaMod, the Advance School on Mathematical Modelling at IMUS held in Seville, June 22-26 (2009).
- Centre national de la recherche scientifique - France grant Global supply chain and constrained vehicle routing (2009).
- EPSRC small grant Variable neighborhood search for clustering and data mining (2008).
- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) grant reviewer (2008-).
- Advisory Editorial Board Member of Elsevier journals (2008 --).
- Reviewer of Mathematical Reviews (AMS) (2007-)
- Reviewer of the several international journals such as Math Progr, INFORMS J on Computing, EJOR, JOGO, COR, JOH, OR Spectrum, JORS, DAM, etc.
- Leader of the scientific project "Mathematical optimization models and methods with applications" granted by the Serbian Ministry of Science (from 2002-2005);
- Visiting member of GERAD , University of Montreal, Canada (from 2000 -);
- Winner of the International grant competition Research in Brussels, Service de Mathématiques de la Gestion, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium 1998-1999 (nine months);
- Winner of 1999 award (with professor P. Hansen) for the best paper given by Yugoslav Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics;
- Vice-dean for Research, Faculty of Organizational Sciences, University of Belgrade, Yugoslavia (1989-1991);
- Editorial Board member of
- Guest Editor (special issues):
- Program Committee Member of the following conferences (selective list):
- INOC 2013 - International
Network Optimization Conference , Tenerife, Spain, May 20-22, 2013
- Metaheuristics International Conference
(MIC 2013) , Singapore, August 05-08, 2013.
- Matheuristics'2012 - 4th International workshop on
Model-based metaheuristics, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil September 16-21 (2012)
- Global Optimization Workshop 2012, Natan, Brazil June 26-29 (2012);
- Matheuristics workshop, Vienna (Austria) June 28 - 30, (2010);
- SDM09 - SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (2008);
- INCOM2009 - Matheuristics in Production and Logistics (2008);
- Balcan Conference of Operations Research (2007-);
- Learning and Intelligent OptimizatioN (LION II, III, IV) (2007-);
- Matheuristics (2007-).
- Yugoslav Symposium of Operations Research (1990-) (OC chair in 1990 and PC chair in 2003 and in 2009);
- 18th Mini EURO conference on VNS (Nov. 2005) (PC chair);
- EURO Working Group Location Analysis (1986) (organizer of the 2nd meeting);
- Plenary or tutorial talks at the following conferences (selective list):
-
Rencontres Interdisciplinaires autour de l’Optimisation 2012, Vallenciennes, France, October 18-19 (2012)
- Global Optimization Workshop 2012, Natan, Brazil June 26-29 (2012);
- 1st International Symposium & 10th Balkan Conference (BALCOR 2011) on Operational Research, 22-25 September, Thessaloniki, Greece 2011
- XIV International Baikal Conference - Optimization methods and Applications, 2-8 July, Irkutsk-Severobaikalsk, Russia 2008;
- Discrete optimization and Operations Research (DOOR'07), 7-14 September, Vladivostok, Russia 2007;
- Workshop on "Data Mining and Mathematical Programming" October 10-13, Montreal, Canada 2006;
- Yugoslav Symposium of Operations Research (Sym-Op-Is'05), 27-30 September, V. Banja, Serbia 2005;
- Optimization methods and their applications, Irkutsk-Severobaikalsk, July, 2-8, Russia 2005.
- Discrete Analysis and Oper. Res. (DAOR'02) Novosibirsk, Russia 2002;
- Yugoslav Mathematical Congress, Belgrade, Yugoslavia 2001;
- 3rd Metaheuristic International Conference (MIC'99), Rio, Brasil 1999;
- 2nd Metaheuristic International Conference (MIC'97), Nice, France 1997;
- Yugoslav Symposium of Operations Research, D. Milanovac, Yugoslavia 1995;
- Industrial projects. Coordinator and member of more than 20 industrial projects. Some of them that lasted several years are:
- ULTRAMAR oil company - Pooling problem
- Hydro Quebec Unit commitment and spinning reserve problems.
- Human Nutrition problem: (a) for Yugoslav Army; (b) for hospitals; (c) for chains of hotels at Adriatic coast;
- AVIS Rent a car - complete IS for countries with a licence;
- Operations Research in Mining and Geology.
- Metaheuristic Methods ( Variable Neighborhood Search, Tabu Search, etc.) in Combinatorial and Global Optimization;
- Numerical Algorithms and Mathematical Programming Methods.
- Location, Transportation, Clustering and Data Mining;
- Doctorate in Mathematics (Operations Research), Faculty of Organisational Sciences,
University of Belgrade, Yugoslavia, 1988.
Thesis: New nonlinear programming methods with application in location, allocation and transportation problems
- MSc degree in Mathematics (Operations Research), Faculty of Organisational Sciences,
University of Belgrade, Yugoslavia, 1982.
Thesis: Comparative analysis of some nonlinear programming methods
- BSc degree in Mathematics, Faculty of Mathematics,
University of Belgrade, Yugoslavia, 1976.