Nikolaos A. Kyriakakis

M.Sc., PhD c.

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“Proper teaching is recognized with ease. You can know it without fail because it awakens within you that sensation which tells you this is something you have always known.”

-Frank Herbert, Dune

About

N.A. Kyriakakis is a Ph.D. candidate at Technical University of Crete. He is a Production and Management Engineer graduate, and holds a Master's Degree in Operations Research from the School of Production Engineering and Management, Technical University of Crete. He is a member of the Technical Chamber of Greece and has worked in the private sector in Greece and abroad, in sector leading companies. In Academia, he has been a tutor in OR courses. His research interests focus on vehicle routing problems using state-of-the-art means of transportation, such as drones and ground robots.

“Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.”

Plato

Work

Procurement Officer, Creta Farms S.A.

Creta Farms is one of the largest cured meat products and pork producers in Greece.

Responsible for the procurement in the Fuel & Gasses, Oils & Lubricants, Technical Consumables & Spares, Vehicles & Forklifts and IT categories. Tender and contract management.

Project Manager, Mr-Elevator B.V.

Organizing and coordinating services on marine elevators, on board ships, FPSOs and rigs in 95 ports worldwide.

Managing and the services from quotation to invoicing.

Buyer, Plaisio Computers S.A.

Plaisio Computers is one of the largest electronics and office equipment retailers in Greece.

Buyer for more than 2000 products. Forecasting demand, negotiating with suppliers, controlling the stock in 23 stores all over Greece, reporting on stock and sales.

Education

Ph.D candidate

Technical University of Crete, School of Production Engineering and Management

Thesis Title:"Modeling and Algorithmic solution of the Vehicle Routing Problem with Drones"

Master's Degree in Operations Research

Technical University of Crete, School of Production Engineering and Management

Thesis Title:"Self-Adaptive ACO approach for the CCVRP"

Diploma of Engineering in Production Engineering and Management

Technical University of Crete, School of Production Engineering and Management

Thesis Title:"The Cumulative Capacitated Vehicle Routing Problem solved with Ant Colony Optimization Algorithms"

“Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.”

Plato.

Teaching

Laboratory Teacher

Technical University of Crete, School of Production Engineering and Management

Laboratory lectures and exercises
Courses: Game Theory

Laboratory Teacher

Technical University of Crete, School of Production Engineering and Management

Laboratory lectures and exercises
Courses: Supply Chain Management and Optimization

Teaching Assistant

Technical University of Crete, School of Production Engineering and Management

Supportive tutoring on Organizational Analysis subjects
Courses: Game Theory, Data Analysis, Egonomics and Safety Management

Publications

Nikolaos A. Kyriakakis, Magdalene Marinaki, Nikolaos Matsatsinis, Yannis Marinakis, Moving peak drone search problem: An online multi-swarm intelligence approach for UAV search operations, Swarm and Evolutionary Computation, Volume 66, 2021, 100956, ISSN 2210-6502, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.swevo.2021.100956

Nikolaos A. Kyriakakis, Magdalene Marinaki, Yannis Marinakis, A hybrid ant colony optimization-variable neighborhood descent approach for the cumulative capacitated vehicle routing problem, Computers & Operations Research, Volume 134, 2021, 105397, ISSN 0305-0548, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cor.2021.105397.

Nikolaos A. Kyriakakis, Ioannis Sevastopoulos, Magdalene Marinaki, Yannis Marinakis, A Hybrid Tabu Search - Variable Neighborhood Descent Algorithm for the Cumulative Capacitated Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Windows,Computers & Industrial Engineering Volume 164, 2021, 107868, ISSN 0360-8352,https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cie.2021.107868

Nikolaos A. Kyriakakis, Magdalene Marinaki, Nikolaos Matsatsinis, Yannis Marinakis, A Cumulative Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Routing Problem Approach for Humanitarian Coverage Path Planning, European Journal of Operational Research,Volume 300, Issue 3, 2022, 992-1004, ISSN 0377-2217, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2021.09.008

Nikolaos A. Kyriakakis, Themistoklis Stamadianos, Magdalene Marinaki, Yannis Marinakis, The electric vehicle routing problem with drones: An energy minimization approach for aerial deliveries, Cleaner Logistics and Supply Chain, Volume 4, 2022, 100041, ISSN 2772-3909, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.clscn.2022.100041

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