Luze Xu (徐芦泽)
University of Wisconsin-Madison
I am a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery and Department of Industrial & Systems Engineering at University of Wisconsin-Madison, mentored by Prof. Alberto Del Pia. I will start the assistant professor position at the Department of Mathematics at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in January 2026.
I was a Krener Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics at UC Davis, mentored by Prof. Matthias Köppe and Prof. Jesús De Loera. I received my Ph.D. in Industrial and Operations Engineering at the University of Michigan in April 2022, advised by Prof. Jon Lee. Prior to that, I received my bachelor degree in Computational Mathematics from Peking University, China, in 2017.
My research interests include global optimization, integer programming, mixed integer programming, and theories connecting continuous optimization and discrete optimization.
I have been awarded:
ISyE Junior Researcher Workshop Travel Support, 2024
Katta Murty Prize for Best Research Paper on Optimization, IOE Department, 2018, 2020
CRM/DIMACS Workshop on Mixed-Integer Nonlinear Programming Student Travel Support, 2019
Mixed Integer Programming Workshop Student Travel Award, 2019
Rackham Conference Travel Grant, University of Michigan, 2017-2019, 2022