Regular biography
Dr Michelle Dunbar is a lecturer in the School of Mathematics and Statistics at The University of New South Wales. Her research interests include operations research and mathematical modeling, with a focus on applications in logistics, healthcare, and environmental systems. Dr Dunbar's work has been published in several peer-reviewed journals, including the Annals of Operations Research, European Journal of Operational Research, and Physics in Medicine and Biology. She is affiliated with the School of Mathematics & Statistics and contributes to teaching and supervision within the department.
Scholar-generated biography
Michelle Dunbar is a Lecturer in Applied Mathematics specializing in optimisation. Her research focuses on developing mathematical models and algorithms to address complex decision-making problems in logistics, transportation, and healthcare. Dunbar's work includes robust airline schedule planning, integrated scenario-based approaches for aircraft routing, crew pairing, and re-timing, as well as optimisation techniques for medical imaging and HIV-associated neurocognitive disorder assessment. She also explores spatio-topological network analysis for flood mitigation and toll pricing strategies with heterogeneous users. Her research combines operations research, Bayesian methods, and probabilistic approaches to enhance system reliability and efficiency.