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Ruth Walton and Ghyslain Gaillard, two postgraduate students from Southampton’s Centre for Operational Research, Management Science and Information Systems (CORMSIS), won an award for Best Industry-based Student Project at the Operational Research (OR) Society May Hicks Awards 2017.

Ruth Walton (centre) with Ed Alliston (Boeing) left and Jodie Walshe (RNLI) right

The Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) enlisted expert help from CORMSIS MSc Maths OR聽student Ruth Walton.

Ruth said:

鈥淲hile studying for my undergraduate Maths degree聽at Southampton, I became interested in Operational Research. During my聽masters, I enjoyed the opportunity to work for three months with the RNLI contributing to their warehousing strategy.聽 I鈥檓 now studying for a PhD聽at Southampton.鈥�

RNLI Decision Support Manager and Southampton Alumnus聽Jodie Walshe聽sponsored the project. He said:

鈥淭he RNLI has been involved with research projects with the University for more than 15 years, across business analytics and engineering.”

Ruth was also awarded the Boeing Maths prize for her project, presented by Edward Alliston from Boeing. Edward said:

鈥淢y role is to encourage young people to study problem solving. Boeing is keen to engage with students and develop our links with the next generation of engineers.”

Southampton Business School MSc Business Analytics and Finance (BAF) student聽Ghyslain Gaillard’s聽work involved building a predictive model using state-of-the-art data analytics and machine learning techniques.

It helped his project sponsors, InReach Ventures, to assess which start-up companies would prove the best prospects to invest in. Ghyslain said:

“As part of my engineering masters degree, I decided to move from France to the UK to study how mathematics and analytics can directly聽help companies. I particularly enjoyed applying the theory I had learned during my summer project with InReach in London and am delighted they hired me afterwards so I can continue my work.”