Johan Van Kerckhoven
JOHAN VAN KERCKHOVEN graduated from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) in Brussels as a Master in Mathematics (Licentiaat in de Wiskunde), with specialisation in statistics, in 2002. He worked as a university researcher, specialising in variable selection methods in predictive modelling and robust statistics, and teaching assistant at various Belgian universities (2002-2012), obtaining his PhD in Applied Economics in 2008 at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. From 2012-2016 he worked as market risk modeller at KBC. He joined the department MWMW of the Royal Military Academy as a researcher in 2016, specialising in (discrete event) simulation, in particular using SimJulia.
Session
Proper HR management within an organisation is vital in the current day and age. Because of this task’s complexity, managers should be able to rely on good tools or models to support them, so they can gauge the short and long term impact of their decisions before making them. To this end, we developed a generalised manpower simulation engine in Julia, using SimJulia. We present this tool’s main features, highlight some of the encountered difficulties, and illustrate how it can be employed.