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I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and, by courtesy, in the Department of Mathematics and in the Department of Computer Sciences. I am also a core member of the Optimization group and of the Data Science Hub at the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery.
I am an Associate Editor for Mathematical Programming and Discrete Optimization.
My main research areas are mathematical optimization, discrete mathematics, and mathematics of data science.
Bio. In 2009 I received my Ph.D. from the Department of Mathematics of the University of Padova, under the supervision of Giacomo Zambelli. Then, I worked as a postdoctoral researcher with Robert Weismantel, first in the Institute for Mathematical Optimization of the Otto-von-Guericke University, and then in the Institute for Operations Research of ETH Zürich. In 2013 I joined the Mathematical Programming group of IBM Research as a Goldstine fellow. I moved to UW-Madison in 2014, where I got tenured in 2020.
Awards received
2017 INFORMS Optimization Society Young Researchers Prize. For the paper “On decomposability of multilinear sets”, joint work with Aida Khajavirad.
Herman Goldstine Memorial Postdoctoral Fellowship, IBM Research, 2013.
Istituto Nazionale di Alta Matematica (INdAM) scholarship, 2000–2004.