Peter Jacko




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Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Management Science
Department of Management Science, Lancaster University Management School, LA1 4YX, UK

Senior Decision Scientist, Berry Consultants, Abingdon, UK

At Lancaster University, I am also member of:


:: News

< 2022

05: Published paper Routing with too much information? (with E. Hyytia and R. Righter)

< 2021

12: Published paper On Model-Based Time Trend Adjustments in Platform Trials with Non-concurrent Controls (with several co-authors as part of the EU Patient-Centric Clinical Trial Platforms project)
12: Published book chapter Bandit Procedures for Designing Patient-Centric Clinical Trials (with S. S. Villar)
12: Published paper Generalisations of a Bayesian Decision-Theoretic Randomisation Procedure and the Impact of Delayed Responses (with S. F. Williamson and T. Jaki)
12: Published paper A Novel Implementation of Q-Learning for the Whittle Index (with L. Gibson and Y. Nazarathy)
12: Member of the Scientific Committee of the EURO PhD School on Reinforcement Learning Applied to Operations Research, Marienheide, Germany
11: My PhD student (4th), Ugur Satic, successfully defended his thesis
10: Organiser of an invited session on "Learning vs Earning Trade-offs in Healthcare" at the INFORMS Annual Conference, Anaheim, CA, USA (held virtually)
08: Promoted to Senior Lecturer (equivalent to Associate Professor)
07: Member of the INFORMS Applied Probability Society 2021 Best Student Paper Competition Committee
04: Course Leader of the NATCOR Course on Stochastic Scheduling, Lancaster, UK (held virtually)
04: Organiser of an invited session at the IMA and OR Society Conference of Mathematics of Operational Research, Birmingham, UK (held virtually)
02: My PhD student (3rd), Stephen Ford, successfully defended his thesis
02: Reduced to part-time at Lancaster University and started a part-time job as Senior Decision Scientist at Berry Consultants

< 2020

12: Published paper Performance evaluation of scheduling policies for the dynamic and stochastic resource-constrained multi-project scheduling problem (with U. Satic and C. Kirkbride)
09: "Top 33% Reviewer" appreciation for the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2020)
08: Invited seminar at Berry Consultants, USA
08: Member of the INFORMS Applied Probability Society 2020 Best Student Paper Competition Committee
07: Reviewer for the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2020), 12-18 July, Vienna, Austria
07: (CANCELLED DUE TO COVID-19) Technical Program Committee member for the European Conference on Queueing Theory (EQCT 2020), 20-22 July, Madrid, Spain
06: My PhD student (2nd), Francis Garuba, successfully defended his thesis
03: Invited seminar at Loughborough University, UK
02: My PhD student (1st ever), Faye Williamson, successfully defended her thesis
01-03: On parental leave

< 2019

12: Published paper On the dynamic allocation of assets subject to failure (with S. Ford, M. Atkinson and K. Glazebrook)
11: Published paper Robust Network Capacity Expansion with Non-Linear Costs (with F. Garuba and M. Goerigk)
10: Web-based interactive app (R Shiny App) to visualise performance of designs in two-armed bandit problems
08: Package in Julia programming language to optimise and evaluate performance of designs in two-armed bandit problems
08: Published working paper BinaryBandit: An Efficient Julia Package for Optimization and Evaluation of the Finite-Horizon Bandit Problem with Binary Responses
06: Published working paper The Finite-Horizon Two-Armed Bandit Problem with Binary Responses: A Multidisciplinary Survey of the History, State of the Art, and Myths
06: Speaker at the 2019 PSI Conference themed "Data Driven Decision Making in Medical Research", 2-5 June, London, UK

Unfortunately, I had to decline the following invitations:
09: Member of the EPSRC Mathematical Sciences prioritisation panel as the expert in Operational Research, UK
04: Organiser of an invited session at the IMA and OR Society Conference of Mathematics of Operational Research, Birmingham, UK

< 2018

11: Founded the Group on Optimal Adaptive Learning (G.O.A.L.)
08: Invited speaker on "Recent Progress on Bayesian Decision-Theoretic Clinical Trial Designs" at the Advanced Analytics Centre, AstraZeneca, Cambridge, UK
06: Appointed as Board Member of the EURO Working Group on Stochastic Modelling
06: Co-chair of the Meeting of the EURO Working Group on Stochastic Modelling (StochMod 2018), 13-15 June, Lancaster, UK
06: Speaker at the 2018 PSI Conference themed "Breaking Boundaries in Drug Development", 3-6 June, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
05: Speaker, Program Committee member, and organiser of an invited session for the Workshop on Multi-Armed Bandits and Learning Algorithms, 24-25 May, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
03: Invited speaker on "Recent Progress on Bayesian Decision-Theoretic Clinical Trial Designs" at the Product Development Biometrics Biostatistics Group, Roche Pharmaceuticals, Welwyn Garden City, UK
02: Principal investigator of project "Modelling and Simulation of Clinical Trial Designs" with Phastar, UK and the Trial Design Modelling Centre at AstraZeneca, UK

Unfortunately, I had to decline the following invitations:
12: Reviewer for the 32st Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS 2018), Montreal, Canada
07: Program Committee member for the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2018), 10-15 July, Stockholm, Sweden
07: Technical Program Committee member for the European Conference on Queueing Theory (EQCT 2018), 2-4 July, Jerusalem, Israel

< 2017

12: Reviewer for the 31st Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS 2017), Long Beach, USA
12: Speaker at the 6th Workshop on Queueing Theory, Obergurgl, Austria
06-08: On parental leave
06: Speaker at the Adaptive Designs and Multiple Testing Procedures Workshop, Cambridge, UK
04: Poster presenter at the InSPiRe Conference on Methodology for Clinical Trials in Small Populations and Rare Diseases, Warwick, UK
04: Organiser of an invited session and speaker at the IMA and OR Society Conference of Mathematics of Operational Research, Birmingham, UK
02: Speaker at the 13th Workshop on Stochastic Models, Statistics and Their Applications, Berlin, Germany
01-03: Visiting researcher at the MRC Biostatistics Unit, University of Cambridge, UK (hosted by James Wason)

For past activity, see my Full CV.

Last modified: 11/2018