UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA FORMAT OF CURRICULUM VITAE The University prefers the following CV format. Specific items can be added to or omitted to reflect faculty specific and/or individual circumstances, but the given numbering should, as far as possible, be followed to facilitate the evaluation process. Provision of information about race and gender is optional, but will assist the University to report in terms of current employment equity legislation. EVALUATION DATE: (Office use only) 1. BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH 1.1 GENERAL INFORMATION Surname Grobler First names Jacomine ID Number Citizenship ZAR Title Dr Female X Male Place of birth Pretoria Date of birth 29/11/1984 Population group Department Direct Telephone E-mail African Coloured Indian White x Department of and Systems Position 072 455 5909 Direct Telefax Jacomine.grobler@gmail.com Other (Please specify) Date of appointment Permanent fulltime X Temporary fulltime Page 1 of 7
1.2 ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS OBTAINED Degree/ Diploma B Eng ( ) B Eng (Hons): M Eng ( ) PhD ( ) Field of study Higher education institution Year Distinctions University of Pretoria 2006 50 University of Pretoria 2007 8 University of Pretoria 2009 1 University of Pretoria 2015 1.3 WORK EXPERIENCE TO DATE Name of employer University of Pretoria Capacity and/or type of work Senior lecturer: Supply chain management (Honours level) and final year project leader: Presentation and preparation of lectures. Mentoring of final year project students. Assessment of students. Research into and application of computational optimization to address challenges in supply chain management. Period From mm//yy to mm//yy October 2015 to Present Council for Scientific and Research Research group leader: Transport and Freight Logistics: Development of sustainable research capacity in transport and freight logistics at the CSIR. Management of the Transport and Freight Logistics (TFL) Research Group from a financial and human resource perspective. Business development to ensure continuous revenue streams for the TFL group. Research into and application of computational optimization to address challenges in the logistics sector. April 2014 to September 2015 University of Pretoria Part time lecturer: Supply chain management (Honours level) and final year project leader: Presentation and preparation of lectures. Mentoring of final year project students. Assessment of students. March 2015 to September 2015 Denel Dynamics (Pty) Ltd Program Portfolio Management ( division), Program Management, Systems and Business Analysis: Development of a project review database capable of tracking financial figures, milestone progress, and risks on development programs in the division. Reporting to the Executive Manager: on a monthly basis with regard to the progress of 14 technology development projects. Aug 2008 to March 2014 Page 2 of 7
Research into the establishment of a strategic early warning system capable of identifying and monitoring industry trends and their effect on company strategy. Management of a technology program focusing on the development of fuse technology for an international client. This was a multiyear, multimillion dollar contract with a project team of 18 members. Responsible for project strategy definition in conjunction with systems engineer and group managers. Development of alternative business plans to support different strategic alternatives. Management of all client interactions, monthly progress reporting, and hosting client visits and design reviews. Responsible for building strategic relationships with both local and international suppliers through frequent interaction and negotiation. Project planning and scheduling. Monitoring of all project activities. Negotiation with line managers for resources. Risk identification and definition and development and monitoring of appropriate ac plans. Delivering labour, material and sales forecasts to the financial department on a monthly basis. Reporting on project progress to management. Development of sales and operations and capacity planning functionality (process design, requirements specification: SAP transactions and reports, and implementation support for the production line, workshop, precision manufacturing group and the procurement function). Master data management (process design, requirements specification: SAP transactions and reports, documentation, implementation and project management for the planning, procurement and production engineering functions). Development of Visual Basic-based decision support applications for production planning and master data monitoring. Investigation of poor due date performance and over expenditure in the internal machine shop (problem analysis, system design, implementation and project management based on six sigma principles). Development of a procurement prioritization system for improved MPS execution (mentoring and support provided to bursary student). Master scheduling function on a multiyear production contract (supporting and monitoring of the detail planning function, creating and managing independent requirements on SAP and facilitating the quotation process of new contracts). December 2009 to March 2010. University of Pretoria Junior lecturer (Facilities Planning, a third year subject in the Department of and Systems ): Presentation and preparation of lectures. Assessment of students. January 2007 to July 2008 Centurion Ice Cream and Sweets CC Student (Project work): Facility location analysis and quantitative investigation of alternative distribution scenarios. Development of algorithms for improved production scheduling. Identification of improvement opportunities in the use of information technology. Strategy formulation and balanced scorecard development. Development of functional specifications for a data warehouse and a transactional maintenance management system. Investigation of alternative facility layout configurations. January 2004 to July 2008 Page 3 of 7
Optimatix (A software company specializing in supply chain optimization) Final year project student: Investigating the use of meta-heuristics (particle swarm optimization) in the Optimatix scheduling environment. Development of algorithms for improved production scheduling. January 2006 to December 2006 2. TEACHING ACTIVITIES 2.1 Courses presented Course Level (e.g. second year, Masters) Self developed (Yes or No) Facilities Planning (BFB 310) (2007 & 2008) Third year No Supply Chain Design (BVK 780) Honours No 3 TEACHING OUTPUTS 4. OTHER TEACHING CONTRIBUTIONS 5 RESEARCH ACTIVITIES 6 RESEARCH OUTPUTS 6.1 Publications in peer-reviewed or refereed journals Jacomine Grobler, Andries P. Engelbrecht, Graham Kendall and Sarma Yadavalli. (2015). Heuristic space diversity control for improved meta-hyper-heuristic performance. Information Sciences, 300: 49-62. Jacomine Grobler, Andries P. Engelbrecht, Schalk Kok and Sarma Yadavalli. (2010). Metaheuristics for the multi-objective FJSP with sequence-dependent set-up times, auxiliary resources and machine down time. Annals of Operations Research, 180(1):165-196. Jacomine Grobler and V.S.S. Yadavalli. (2008). Managing the cold chain: a case study at a South African ice cream factory. South African Journal of, 19(2):17-39. Page 4 of 7
6.2 Books and/or chapters in books 6.3 Published full-length conference papers/keynote addresses Jacomine Grobler and Andries P. Engelbrecht. (2015). Metric-based heuristic space diversity management in a meta-hyper-heuristic framework. Proceedings of the 2015 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Ensemble Learning, Accepted for publication. To be presented in Cape Town, South Africa. Jacomine Grobler, Andries P. Engelbrecht, Graham Kendall and Sarma Yadavalli. (2014). The entity-toalgorithm allocation problem: extending the analysis. Proceedings of the 2014 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Ensemble Learning, pages 1-8. Presented in Orlando, USA. Jacomine Grobler, Andries P. Engelbrecht, Graham Kendall and Sarma Yadavalli. (2014). Heuristic Space Diversity Management in a Meta-Hyperheuristic Framework. Proceedings of the 2014 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, pages 1863-1869. Presented in Beijing, China. Jacomine Grobler, Andries P. Engelbrecht, Graham Kendall and Sarma Yadavalli. (2013). Multi-method algorithms: Investigating the entity-to-algorithm allocation problem. Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, pages 570 577. Presented in Cancun, Mexico. Jacomine Grobler and Andries P. Engelbrecht. (2013).Solution space diversity management in a metahyperheuristic framework. Proceedings of the 2013 BRICS Congress on Computational Intelligence. Presented in Recife, Brazil. Jacomine Grobler, Andries P. Engelbrecht, Graham Kendall and Sarma Yadavalli. (2012). Investigating the use of local search for improving meta-hyperheuristic performance. Proceedings of the 2012 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, pages 1-8. Presented in Brisbane, Australia. Jacomine Grobler, Andries P. Engelbrecht, Graham Kendall and Sarma Yadavalli. (2011). Investigating the impact of alternative evolutionary selection strategies on multi-method global optimization. Proceedings of the 2011 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, pages 2337-2344. Presented in New Orleans, USA. Jacomine Grobler, Andries P. Engelbrecht, Graham Kendall and Sarma Yadavalli. (2010). Alternative hyperheuristic strategies for multi-method global optimization. Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, pages 1-8. Presented in Barcelona, Spain. Jacomine Grobler and Andries P. Engelbrecht. (2009). Hybridizing PSO and DE for improved vector evaluated multi-objective optimization. Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, pages 1255-1262. Presented in Trondheim, Norway. Jacomine Grobler, Andries P. Engelbrecht, V.S.S. Yadavalli. (2008). Multi-objective DE and PSO strategies for production scheduling. Proceedings of the 2008 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, pages 1154-1161. Presented in Hong Kong. Jacomine Grobler and Andries P. Engelbrecht. (2007). A scheduling-specific modeling approach for real world scheduling. Proceedings of the 2007 IEEE International Conference on and Management, pages 85-89. Presented in Singapore. Jacomine Grobler, Andries P. Engelbrecht, Johan W. Joubert and Schalk Kok. (2007). A starting time-based approach to production scheduling with Particle Swarm Optimization. Proceedings of the 2007 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Scheduling, pages 121-128. Presented in Honolulu, Hawaii. V.S.S. Yadavalli and J. Grobler. (2007). Future trends in supply chain management. Proceedings of the Second National Conference on Management Science and Practice, Allied Publishers Pvt. Ltd, pages 124 134. 7 OTHER SCHOLARLY RESEARCH-BASED CONTRIBUTIONS 7.2 Teamwork and collaboration with others: Strong research relationships exist with the Computational Intelligence Research Group at the Computer Science Department at the University of Pretoria and the Automated Scheduling Optimization and Planning Research Group at the University of Nottingham in the UK. Important relationships with key industry partners such as Denel Dynamics, various CSIR units and government departments also exist. Page 5 of 7
7.3 Membership in national and international bodies South African Institute for Engineers (SAIIE), Associate Member. Council of South Africa. Computational Intelligence Research Group (University of Pretoria). Golden Key International Honour Society. 7.4 Visits to local and overseas universities or research institutes as guest professor or researcher Two research visits of two weeks each were undertaken to the Automated Scheduling Optimization and Planning Research Group at the University of Nottingham in the UK during the last 8 years. 8 MAGEMENT AND ADMINISTRATIVE DUTIES 9 COMMUNITY SERVICE OR PROFESSIOL SKILLS 10.1 Professional service performed Chair of the Pretoria chapter of the Operations Research Society of South Africa (ORSSA), 2009. External examiner at the Department at the University of Pretoria for final year projects (two modules, namely BPJ 410 and BPJ 420), 2009, 2010, and 2014. 10.2 Clinical service 10.3 Involvement with other universities/scientific institutions 10.4 Referee duties Referee duties include regularly reviewing papers for various national and international journals and conferences including IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, International Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics, Swarm Intelligence, International Journal of Operations and Quantitative Management, Journal of Scheduling (special edition), Central European Journal of Operations Research and South African Journal of. Page 6 of 7
10 AWARDS AND SCIENTIFIC/SCHOLARLY RECOGNITION 11.1 Evaluation status as scientist/scholar. 11.2 Research awards and prizes 2015 JD Roberts emerging researcher award for her contribution to the development of mathematical models and optimization algorithms for solving problem First BRICS Countries Congress on Computational Intelligence best student paper award second place, 2013. South African Association for the Advancement of Science Bronze medal for the best dissertation at master's level at the University of Pretoria during 2009. National Research Foundation Innovation Scholarship. Awarded for the degrees M Eng( ), 2008, and B Eng(Hons): ( ), 2007. Winner of the SAS Operations Research National Student Competition 2006: Best Honours Project. South African Institute of Mining and Metallurgy Gold Medal Award. Bursary for postgraduate studies and medal for outstanding academic achievement over four years of study in the School of, 2006. Sasol prize for the most outstanding consistent academic achievement for the duration of the degree course in, 2006. Medal from the South African Institute of for the Best Final Year student in 2006. Department of and System prize for the Best Final Year Project based on the project document, 2006. iplan prize for the Best Third Year student during 2005. Fourier Approach prize for the Best Second Year student during 2004. 11.3 Teaching awards and prizes 11.4 Artistic awards and prizes Girl Guide Association of South Africa: Protea Award. The Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music (London): Grade 8 Piano (82%). University of South Africa: Grade 7 Flute (87%). Die Suid Afrikaanse Gilde van Spraak- en Dramaonderwysers: Mondelinge Kommunikasie Eksamen 2002: Graad: Finaal (90%). Page 7 of 7