About Me

I am a Lecturer in Operations and Decision Sciences at the Lazaridis School of Business & Economics at Wilfrid Laurier University, and a PhD candidate in Management Sciences at the University of Waterloo, under the supervision of Dr. James Bookbinder. My doctoral thesis focuses on lot-sizing heuristics for multiple product families. My other research interests include using business analytics to support decision-making in supply chain network design, transportation, inventory management, and production planning.

I have an extensive teaching portfolio that includes undergraduate and graduate courses at UW and Laurier, such as Business Decision Models, Introduction to Optimization, Production and Service Operations Management, and Advanced Optimization Techniques. As a teaching assistant for numerous courses in the Department of Management Sciences, I was awarded the Sandford Fleming Teaching Assistantship Award in 2011. In 2016, I was a recipient of the Amit and Meena Chakma Award for Exceptional Teaching by a Student.

Before completing my MASc in Management Sciences at the University of Waterloo, I earned my BASc in Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering from the University of Windsor. I worked at Chrysler and Syncreon, gaining industrial engineering experience in line balancing, work-station design layouts, and continuous improvement. I am a student member of the Canadian Operational Research Society (CORS) and Institute for Operations Research and Management Sciences (INFORMS), and I am an Engineering Intern (EIT) with the Professional Engineers of Ontario (PEO).

When I'm not working, I enjoy tackling Killer Sudoku puzzles, cooking, yarn crafts, and taking nature walks/jogs with my family.

Tiffany Bayley

Tiffany Bayley

Department of Management Sciences
Faculty of Engineering
University of Waterloo
200 University Avenue West
Waterloo, ON N2L 3G1 Canada

  tiffany.bayley [AT] uwaterloo [DOT] ca
  Office: CPH 4353

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  Education

PhD, Management Sciences (Applied Operations Research)
University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON
Thesis title: Lot-Sizing for Multiple Product Families
Advisor: James H. Bookbinder		 2017 (expected)
MASc, Management Sciences (Applied Operations Research)
University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON
Thesis title: Facility Location and Transportation in Two Free Trade Zones
Advisor: James H. Bookbinder		 2011
BASc (Co-op), Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering
University of Windsor, Windsor, ON
Minor in Business Administration		 2006

  Publications and Presentations*

*Prior to 2013, published as Tiffany A. Matuk

Journal Article

Bayley, T., Süral, H., and Bookbinder, J.H. (2017). "A hybrid Benders approach for coordinated capacitated lot-sizing of multiple product families with set-up times." International Journal of Production Research. Advance online publication, doi: 10.1080/00207543.2017.1338778

Book Chapter

Bookbinder, J.H. and Matuk, T.A. (2009). Logistics and Transportation in Global Supply Chains: Review, Critique, and Prospects. In M. Oskoorouchi (Ed.), Tutorials in Operations Research, INFORMS, pp.182-211. DOI: 10.1287/educ.1090.0059.

Refereed Conference Proceedings

Bayley, T.A. and Bookbinder, J.H. (2015). "The Dynamic Family Assignment Heuristic", in Information Control Problems in Manufacturing: proceedings of the 15th IFAC Symposium on Information Control in Manufacturing, eds. Dolgui, A., Sasiadek, J., and Zaremba, M., Ottawa, ON, pp.1219-1224.

Working Papers

Bayley, T.A. and Hurst, A. (Under revision). "Teaching Line Balancing through Active and Blended Learning."

Bayley, T.A. and Bookbinder J.H. "A Branch-and-Cut Algorithm for the Production-Routing Problem with Coordinated and Capacitated Lot-Sizes and Backorders."

Bayley, T.A. and Bookbinder J.H. "Facility Location and Transportation in NAFTA and the EU."

Invited Presentation

Bookbinder, J.H. and Matuk, T.A. (2009). "Logistics and Transportation in Global Supply Chains: Review, Critique, and Prospects." Tutorial (90 minutes), INFORMS Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA.

Conference Presentations

Bayley, T.A., Süral, H., and Bookbinder, J.H. (2016). Coordinated and Capaciated Lot-Sizing for Multiple Product Families with Setup Times. INFORMS Annual Meeting, Nashville, TN.

Bayley, T.A. and Bookbinder, J.H. (2015). A Lot-Sizing and Bin-Packing Heuristic for Outbound Shipment Consolidation. International Workshop on Lot Sizing 2015, Montreal, QC.

Bayley, T.A., Bookbinder, J.H., and Süral, H. (2015). Solving Lot-Sizing Problems with Genetic Algorithm and Variable Neighbourhood Search. CORS/INFORMS International Conference, Montreal, QC.

Bookbinder, J.H. and Bayley, T.A. (2014). Facility Location and Transportation in NAFTA and the EU. LOGMS Conference, Rotterdam.

Bayley, T.A. and Bookbinder, J.H. (2014). Dynamic Family Assignment for Jointly Replenished Products. 56th Annual CORS Conference, Ottawa, ON.

Matuk, T.A. and Süral, H. (2012). The Multi-family Joint Replenishment Problem. 54thAnnual CORS Conference, Niagara Falls, ON.

Matuk, T.A. and Bookbinder, J.H. (2010). “International Facility Location in a Free Trade Zone.” Optimization Days, HEC Montréal, Montréal, QC.

  Work Experience

Teaching Experience

Lecturer
Lazaridis School of Business & Economics, Wilfrid Laurier University		 September 2017 - present
Instructor
Department of Management Sciences, University of Waterloo		 May 2014 - April 2017
Research Assistant
Department of Management Sciences, University of Waterloo		 September 2008 - present
Sessional Lecturer
School of Business & Economics, Wilfrid Laurier University 		January - April 2014
Teaching Assistant
Department of Management Sciences, University of Waterloo 		2009 - 2013

Industry Experience

Industrial Engineer (EIT)
Syncreon		 2006 - 2008
Industrial Engineer (EIT)
Chrysler (Windsor Assembly Plant)		 2006

  Interests

Fitness  

Running   I enjoy distance running, and before becoming bogged down by injury and other commitments, I competed in road races at least twice per year. Favourites include the Dirty Dash 8k, Re-Fridgee-Eighter 8mi, Around the Bay 30k, and Wineglass Marathon. I'm hoping to get back into shorter distances soon, though this downtime has led me to appreciate the joy of burpees and lifting weights. I dig GPP workouts.

Cooking and Crafting

cutlery  I contribute to a cooking and craft blog shared with my sisters, C and T (though I would argue that I am the only one knitting and crocheting!).

Music  

piano  Admittedly rusty, I play the piano and can strum a guitar, and should make more time to practice!

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