Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Management Science

Cardiff University

My life objective is to help the world becoming a better place by offering my skills and passion for research and education. To that end, I have created two initiatives that put the society/people in the heart of my research, teaching and engagement activities: 1) Democratising Forecasting (DF); 2) Forecasting for Social Good (FSG).

Interests

Forecasting for Social Good
Forecasting and decision making
Forecasting by aggregation
Forecasting

Education

PhD in Industrial Engineering, 2014

University of Bordeaux
MSc. in Information Systems, 2010

ECE Paris
MSc. in Industrial Engineering, 2007

Tarbiat Modares University
BSc. in Industrial Engineering, 2004

K.N.Toosi University of Technology

Workshop/Teaching Feedback

“Bahman was knowledgeable, the workshop was really informative and very well presented.”

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Workshop/Teaching Feedback

“I really appreciate the effort you are making to share your knowledge, and most importantly your dedication and determination to contribute in making the world a better place for everyone, using your own expertise and knowledge.”

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NHS Workshop

“I liked the level of depth, whilst it was hard to take it all on at once, it made the content actually useful, it’s easier to see how it can be used. "

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Lately

From my blog

Embracing Uncertainty in Healthcare

Do you always set plans and rarely achieve them because by the time they are published things changed? Do you generate a forecast and it’s always wrong? If these questions are familiar, this workshop is for you. It’s not your fault if your forecast is wrong and your plan fails – traditional deterministic forecasting and planning is seriously incomplete because it ignores uncertainties.

Last updated on Dec 11, 2020 3 min read conference

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Talks / Workshops

Forecasting with Multiple Seasonality

We will be running a webinar on ‘Forecasting with Multiple Seasonality’. We cover various forecasting models using A&E data.

Nov 25, 2020 1:00 PM — 2:30 PM Virtual

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Forecasting for Social Good

You can access the preprint version of my paper on Forecasting for Social Good on Arxiv.

One of the key objectives of my research is to use Operational Research techniques to improve decision making in organizations with social missions, thereby positively contributing to advancing knowledge in the field of forecasting practice for social good.

Forecasting for Social Good Initiative aims to explore and expose how (where) forecasting can have positive societal impact. The objective is threefold: i) expose the importance of forecasting for social good, ii) capture the otherwise dispersed current state of knowledge, and set the agenda to drive developments iii) create and establish research collaboration and partnership at the national and international level.

To that end, I have organised the first international workshop dedicated to the use of forecasting for social good in Cardiff University on Thursday and Friday 12-13 July 2018. This workshop was an important step to bring more attention to this extremely important topic. It brings together researchers and practitioners across 10 countries to discuss research agenda in this area, whilst helping me broaden my network and introduce important research collaborations with academics as well as build solid partnerships with organizations.

We are organising the second International workshop on Forecasting for Social Good on June 30^th & July 1^st 2021 at Kedge Business School, France. Please follow the link to learn more: https://www.f4sg.org/

Please see below for more information about the first workshop organised at Cardiff Business School in july 2018:

Democratising forecasting

This is an ongoing initiative that provides cutting-edge trainings in the area of forecasting using R in some of the world’s least developed countries and organisations with social missions. The workshop is free of charge.

The project is initiated by Dr Bahman Rostami-Tabar and sponsored by the International Institute of Forecasters. For more information please see IIF Website

To organise a workshop in your country, contact rostami-tabarb@cardiff.ac.uk.

Democratising forecasting workshop in Tbilisi, Georgia

The 8th demcoratising forecasting workshop will take place in Caucasus University on 16-18 December 2019. Democratising forecasting is an intiaitive lead by Bahman Rostami-Tabar ans sponsored by the International Institute of Forecasters.