Decision and Cognitive Science Research Centre
Established in 2010, Alliance Manchester Business School's Decision and Cognitive Science Research Centre undertakes research in the areas of Multiple Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA) and Decision Support Systems (DSS). It is home to one of the largest groupings of researchers in both areas. The Centre promotes cross-disciplinary research within decision sciences and cognitive sciences; and applies and evaluates its research findings on real-world decision problems in all sectors.
The team coordinates applied research across strategic and financial decision making; and evaluation of performance, sustainability and innovation. The Centre also promotes theoretical, methodological, empirical and applied research in areas such as evidential reasoning decision analysis, risk analysis, performance optimisation, knowledge-driven decision support systems, and computational and mathematical models of human behaviour and behavioural decision-making. The Centre runs a regular seminar and workshop series for researchers and practitioners to exchange research experiences and foster a spirit of research collaboration.
Key contacts
Academic Staff Members
Academic Staff |
Appointment |
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Professor in Applied Artificial Intelligence |
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Professor in Decision Sciences and Business Analytics |
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Lecturer in Management Science |
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Presidential Fellow in Data Science |
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Lecturer in Management Science |
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Professor of Data Analytics |
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Senior Lecturer in Decision Sciences |
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| Fanlin Meng | Lecturer in Data Science |
Professor of Information & Decision Systems |
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Senior Lecturer in Decision Sciences |
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Simon Rudikin |
Senior Lecturer in Data Science |
Ting Wu |
Teaching Associate & Project Researcher |
Professor of Decision Sciences and Systems |
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Professor of Decision and Systems Sciences |
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Lecturer in Data Science |
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Professor of Data and Decision Engineering |
Honorary, Visiting and Associate Members
| Dr. Oscar de Bruijn | OdB Consulting, Honorary Member of AMBS in Cognitive Science |
| Professor Joshua Knowles | Invenia Labs, Honorary Professor of AMBS in Natural Computation |
| Dr. Zhiyuan Lin | University of Leeds, Honorary Member of DCSRC in Decision Sciences |
| Dr. Lei Ni | RTI Health Solutions, Honorary Research Fellow of AMBS in Management Sciences |
| Professor N. R. Srinivasa Raghavan | Tarxya Limited., Honorary Professor of AMBS in Data Science & AI |
| Professor Alan Pearman | University of Leeds, UK |
| Professor Bob Wood | University of Manchester, UK |
| Professor Kostas Nikolopoulos | Durham University, UK |
| Professor Malcolm Beynon | Cardiff University |
| Professor Kwai-Sang Chin | City University of Hong Kong, China |
| Professor Jutta Geldermann | University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany |
| Professor John Maule | Leeds University, UK |
| Professor Francisco Ruiz de la Rua | University of Malaga, Spain |
| Professor Ahti Salo | Aalto University, Finland |
| Professor Ralph E Steuer | University of Georgia, USA |
| Mr. Spiros Potamitis | Senior Data Scientist, Global Technology Practice at SAS |
Researcher Staff Members
Research Staff |
Name of Supervisor (Project PI) |
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Weihua Deng |
Jian-Bo Yang/Dong-Ling Xu |
Hichem Barki |
Yu-wang Chen/Richard Allmendinger (Connect Childcare - Innovate UK) |
Sujit Roy |
Richard Allmendinger/Yu-wang Chen (FTS - Innovate UK) |
Xiuqin Li |
Richard Allmendinger/Elvira Uyarra |
Ierotheos Tsantilas |
Tingting Mu, Xiao-jun Zeng, John Keane |
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Richard Allmendinger/Yu-wang Chen (FTS - Innovate UK) |
Claire Little |
Mark Elliot (SoSS)/Richard Allmendinger |
Muideen (Ade) Ajagbe |
Nadia Papamichail, Riza Batista-Navarro |
Enes Yigit |
Charlie C. L. Wang, Xiao-Jun Zeng, Suzanne Embury (FTS - Innovate UK) |
| Jonathan Carlton | Markel Vigo, Xiao-Jun Zeng, John Keane (UKRI IAA) |
Research Students
Name of Student |
Type |
Submission |
Name of Supervisors |
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Shuaiyu Yao |
PhD |
Com in 2019 |
Jian-Bo Yang, Dong-Ling Xu |
Yun Prihantina Mulyani |
PhD |
Com in 2020 |
Jian-Bo Yang, Dong-Ling Xu |
Lucia Rivadeneira Barreiro |
PhD |
Com in 2020 |
Jian-Bo Yang, Manuel Lopez-Ibanez |
Ouyang, Wendi |
PhD |
Com in 2020 |
Jian-Bo Yang, Ludmil Mikhailov |
Adam Zhang |
DBA |
2022 |
Jian-Bo Yang |
Mengmeng Tan |
PhD |
2023 |
Jian-Bo Yang, Dong-Ling Xu |
Xiyi Chen |
PhD |
2023 |
Jian-Bo Yang, Dong-Ling Xu |
Alexander Ntiri-Ampomah |
PhD |
2024 |
Jian-Bo Yang |
Amy Jungmin Seo |
PhD |
2024 |
Jian-Bo Yang, Dong-Ling Xu |
Zekun Wang |
PhD |
2024 |
Jian-Bo Yang |
Salman J. Alqahtani |
PhD |
2025 |
Jian-Bo Yang |
Jiangnan Liu |
DBA |
Com in 2019 |
Dong-Ling Xu |
Ting Wu |
PhD |
2021 |
Dong-Ling Xu, Jian-Bo yang |
Sien Chen |
DBA |
2022 |
Dong-Ling Xu |
Fatima Samir Almaghrabi |
PhD |
Com in 2020 |
Dong-Ling Xu, Jian-Bo yang |
Rawan Alhazmi |
PhD |
2022 |
Dong-Ling Xu, Yu-Wang Chen |
Norsharina Zabidi |
PhD |
Com in 2020 |
Weigang Wang, Dong-Ling Xu |
Naheed Bashir |
PhD |
Com in 2019 |
Nadia Papamichail, Khaleel Malik |
Shashwat Pande |
PhD |
Com in 2020 |
Nadia Papamichail, Peter Kawalek |
Jamal Alsaady |
PhD |
Com in 2020 |
Nadia Papamichail, Kathleen Keeling |
Lei Ni |
PhD |
Com in 2020 |
Yu-wang Chen, Oscar de Bruijn, Luis Ospina-Forero |
Hashir Kiani |
PhD |
Com in 2020 |
Xiao-Jun Zeng |
Dongjiao Ge |
PhD |
Com in 2019 |
Xiao-Jun Zeng |
Sam Sivarajan |
DBA |
Com in 2019 |
Oscar de Bruijn |
Orbay Unsoy |
PhD |
2020 |
Yu-wang Chen, Richard Allmendinger |
Crystal Chidinma .U. Chukwuemeka |
PhD |
2020 |
Nadia Papamichail, Richard Allmendinger, Yu-wang Chen |
Sergio García Vega |
PhD |
2020 |
John Keane, Xiao-jun Zeng, WRITING UP |
Elizbeth Fons |
PhD |
2020 |
John Keane, Xiao-jun Zeng, WRITING UP |
Hugo Gamboa Valero |
PhD |
2021 |
John Keane, Xiao-jun Zeng |
Sebastian Flennerhag |
PhD |
2021 |
Mark Elliot (Cathie Marsh), John Keane, Hujun Yin |
Robert Haber |
DBA |
2022 |
Babis Theodoulidis, Ludmil Mikhailov |
Chimdimma Noelyn Onah |
PhD |
2021 |
Richard Allmendinger |
Jonathan Carlton |
PhD |
2021 |
John Keane, Caroline Jay |
Dominic Duxbury |
PhD |
2021 |
John Keane, Norman Paton |
Hasanain Ali |
PhD |
2021 |
Joao Quariguasi, Yu-wang Chen |
Lihua Xia |
DBA |
2021 |
Yu-wang Chen |
William Wu |
DBA |
2022 |
Yu-wang Chen |
Louise Kelly |
PhD |
2022 |
Richard Allmendinger, Yu-wang Chen |
Michail Vamvakaris |
PhD |
2021 |
Xiao-jun Zeng, George Wang |
Yuan Chai |
PhD |
2021 |
Xiao-jun Zeng, Ke Chen |
Nouf Alghanmi |
PhD |
2021 |
Xiao-jun Zeng, Ke Chen |
Asim Alwabel |
PhD |
2021 |
Xiao-jun Zeng, Ke Chen |
Seyed Mahdi Shavarani |
PhD |
2022 |
Manuel Lopez-Ibanez, Richard Allmendinger |
Andreea Avarmescu |
PhD |
2022 |
Richard Allmendinger, Manuel Lopez-Ibanez |
Christopher Rhodes |
PhD |
2021 |
Ricardo Climent (SALC), Richard Allmendinger |
Youngmin Kim |
PhD |
2022 |
Richard Allmendinger, Manuel Lopez-Ibanez |
Stefan Pricopie |
PhD |
2023 |
Richard Allmendinger, Manuel Lopez-Ibanez, Joshua Knowles |
Ayesha Al Hosani |
DBA |
2024 |
Mercedes Bleda, Richard Allmendinger |
Mona Alkhozae |
PhD |
2022 |
Xiao-jun Zeng, Ke Chen |
Jie Zhang |
PhD |
2022 |
Xiao-jun Zeng, Ke Chen |
Alaa Al Jamea |
PhD |
2023 |
Xiao-jun Zeng, Ke Chen |
Maura Hunt |
PhD |
2022 |
Manuel López-Ibáñez, Paul Warren and George Farmer (School of Biological Sciences) |
Maura Hunt |
PhD |
2022 |
Manuel López-Ibáñez, Paul Warren and George Farmer (School of Biological Sciences) |
Engagement
The Centre links theoretical and fundamental research to real world issues, and attracts externally-sponsored (both private and public sector) research and consultancy projects.
Members of the Centre have had extensive collaborations with external bodies mainly through joint research and consultancy projects. The following are some of the organisations with which members have had recent and/or current research/consultancy collaborations:
Academic Collaborators
- School of Engineering, Liverpool John Moores University
- School of Manufacturing Engineering and Engineering Management, City University, Hong Kong, China
- School of Psychology, University of Michigan, USA
- School of Economics and Management, University of Malaga, Spain
- Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology, University of Technology Sydney, Australia
- Departamento de Economía Aplicada, Universidad de Sevilla, Spain
- School of Management, Hefei University of Technology, China
- Department of Automation, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
- Systems Engineering Institute, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China
- School of Public Administration, Fuzhou University, China
Industrial Collaborators
- Kennedys Law LLP
- Leap Beyond Ltd
- AXA Insurance
- Tech Valley Information Technology Ltd
- Equiniti
- DWF LLP
- Alan Turing Institute
- Connect Childcare
- Forensic Testing Services Ltd
- VWFS
- Madgex Ltd
- Pilot Group
- Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust Charity
- Mid-Cheshire NHS HFT
- British Medical Journal (BMJ Publishing Group)
- General Motors Company (GM)
- Belgian Nuclear Research Centre (SCK*CEN)
- Manchester Royal Infirmary (MRI)
- MG Motor UK Ltd
- Tesco
- Bradford and Airedale Community Health Services (BACHS)
- Mersey Maritime Ltd
- Mersey Docks & Harbour Company
- Aromco Limited
- SABMiller
- Leatherhead International Ltd
- British Nuclear Fuel Ltd (BNFL)
- United Biscuits
- Siemens UK
- United Utilities
- The Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA)
- Barclays Bank
- PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC)
- European Federation of Accountants (FEE)
- US Federal Aviation Authority
- Roche Pharma
- NASA
- UN/World Bank
- OECD
- HM Revenue and Customs
- Department of Work and Pensions, UK government
- Qinetiq/Ministry of Defence
- National Nuclear Laboratory
- Christie Hospital, Manchester
- Rapiscan Systems
- Knowledge Support Systems
- Environment Protection Agency (Ireland)
- Aviva
- BP
- BT
- BA
- Deloitte
- Rolls Royce
- Zurich Financial
- Ministry of Justice
- Surrey County Council