About me
I am Andrés Fielbaum, Mathematical Engineer and Ph.D. in Systems Engineering. My main fields of research are public transport, transportation networks, new transportation technologies, and transport-related algorithms. I am currently a postdoc in the Autonomous Multi-Robots Lab (Cognitive Robotics Department) at TU Delft, analyzing on-demand ridepooling systems with Professor Javier Alonso-Mora. In a few weeks I will be joining the School of Civil Engineering at the University of Sydney as a Lecturer (Assistant Professor).
I got my Ph.D. at Universidad de Chile under the supervision of Professor Sergio Jara-Díaz (2019), and before that I got my degree as Engineer and as an M.Sc. in Transportation Engineering at the same University (2014). I have also worked as a researcher in Universidad de O’Higgins, and as the main lecturer in different courses at Universidad de Chile and Universidad Federico Santa María.
Latest news
- We are being visited by Dr. Kenan Zhang in January 25-27th. She is giving the next talk at the LAC Seminar Series at TU Delft, entitled ‘CARMA: Fair and efficient bottleneck congestion management with karma’. It will take place in person (Pulse Hall 4, Faculty 3M) and online! (January 2023).
- Next Wednesday 11/January I will be giving a talk at the LAC Seminar Series at TU Delft, entitled ‘Towards the utilisation of on-demand ridepooling in public transport systems’. It will take place in person (Pulse Hall 4, Faculty 3M) and online! (January 2023).
- I presented our paper ‘How Openness to Sharing Impacts the Total Vehicle Kilometres with Shared Automated Vehicles: A Theoretical Analysis’, co-authored with Baiba Pudane, at the IATBR Conference in Chile (December 2022).
- My student Nander Theodoridis has successfully defended his M.Sc. thesis about including reservations in on-demand ridepooling, obtaining an 8. Congrats! (November 2022).
- I have given a talk ‘‘Towards integrating on-demand pooled services into public transport networks’ at TU Eindhoven (November 2022).
- Our paper ‘A Water-Filling Primal-Dual Algorithm for Approximating NonLinear Covering Problems’, co-authored with Ignacio Morales and José Verschae, has just been published in the SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics (November 2022).
- Our paper ‘The job of public transport, ride-hailing and delivery drivers: conditions during the COVID-19 pandemic and implications for a post-pandemic future’, co-authored with Felipe Ruiz, Giorgio Boccardo, Daniela Rubio, Alejandro Tirachini, and Jorge Rosales-Salas, has just been published in the special issue ‘Post-Pandemic Mobility’ in Travel Behaviour & Society (November 2022).
- Our paper ‘Routing of Heterogeneous Fleets for Flash Deliveries via Vehicle Group Assignment’, co-authored with Maximilian Kroenmuller and Javier Alonso-Mora, has just been published in the Proceedings of IEEE-ITSC 2022 (November 2022).
- My student Mees Matthieu has successfully defended his thesis about controlling unreliability in on-demand ridepooling, obtaining an 8.5. Congrats! (November 2022).
- We have uploaded the pre-print of our paper ‘Beyond the last mile: Different spatial strategies to integrate On-Demand services into Public Transport in a simplified city‘, co-authored with Sergio Jara-Díaz and Javier Alonso-Mora (October 2022).
- Beginning in March 2023, I am joining the Transport Engineering group at the University of Sydney as an Assistant Professor (Lecturer in the Australian nomenclature)! (October 2022).
- I am presenting our paper ‘Unreliability in ridesharing systems: Measuring changes in users’ times due to new requests‘ at the online conference Bridging Transportation Researchers 2022 (August 2022).
- I’ve published an opinion piece in Spanish, about the so-called Uber-Files, revisiting the Chilean experience with ridehailing apps 10 years after their arrival (July 2022).
- I’ve presented our paper ‘Beyond the last mile: Different spatial strategies to integrate On-Demand services into Public Transport in a simplified city’ at ITEA 2022 in Toulouse (June 2022).
- Our paper ‘Optimal Item Pricing in Online Combinatorial Auctions’, co-authored with José Correa, Andrés Cristi, Tristan Pollner, and Matthew Weinberg, is being presented at IPCO 2022 and has just been published in its Proceedings (June 2022).
- I’ve presented our paper ‘The job of public transport, ride-hailing and delivery drivers: conditions during the COVID-19 pandemic and implications for a post-pandemic future’ at the hEART Conference in Lovaine, Belgium. Very nice to go back to in-person Conferences! (June 2022).
- Our paper ‘Group-based Distributed Auction Algorithms for Multi-Robot Task Assignment‘, co-authored with Xiaoshan Bai, Maximilian Kroenmuller, Luzia Knoedler, and Javier Alonso-Mora, is forthcoming at IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering (May 2022).
- I will be presenting our paper «How to split the costs and charge the travellers sharing a ride? aligning system’s optimum with users’ equilibrium» in the AGCO Seminar next Wednesday 13/04 at 3 PM (GMT-4, April 2022).
- I am giving a talk about «Improvements in the assignment decisions between users and vehicles in On-Demand Ridepooling» at Universidad de O’Higgins (March 28th, in Spanish).
- I will be presenting our research on the potential and challenges of on-demand ridepooling at the University of Maryland (March 14th), Georgia Tech (March 16th), and Universidad de Chile (March 23rd in a hybrid session in Spanish).
- The recording of our special session «On-demand services and public transport networks – the prospects of synergy», co-organized with Profs. Javier Alonso-Mora and Oded Cats, are now available online (February 2022).
- I am giving an online talk at The School of Civil Engineering, University of Sydney “On-demand ridepooling: Potential and challenges”. This will take place on 02/February at 11:45 AM, Sydney time (February 2022).
- Our special session «On-demand services and public transport networks – the prospects of synergy», co-organized with Profs. Javier Alonso-Mora and Oded Cats, is taking place at 16/February/2022, 15:30 CET. This is in the context of the Conference Reinventing the City, held by the AMS Institute. All the details here! (January 2022).
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