News

• I was invited to give a talk at the Workshop on Matroid-Constrained Optimization Problems.

• Two papers on generalized malleable scheduling, both joint work with Dimitris Fotakis and Orestis Papadigenopoulos, were recently accepted for publication:

  • Assigning and Scheduling Generalized Malleable Jobs under Subadditive or Submodular Processing Speeds  in Operations Research.

  • A constant-factor approximation for generalized malleable scheduling under M♮-concave processing speeds in Mathematical Programming.

Both articles are dedicated to the memory of our friend and coauthor Orestis, who sadly passed away last year.

• Upcoming presentations by my PhD students: 

  • Yanfei Chen at PMS 2024 and EURO 2024: A purely buffer-based approach to the proactive and reactive resource-constrained project scheduling problem

  • Léonie Gallois at PMS 2024 and MAPSP 2024: Improved Benders Decomposition for Project Scheduling with Monotone Objectives

  • Fei Wu at INOC 2024 and MAPSP 2024: Assessing the Robustness of Projects via Longest-Path Network Interdiction with Failure Groups

• My paper Decomposing Probability Marginals Beyond Affine Requirements was accepted for publication at IPCO 2024. An updated full version of a preceding paper (studying the affine requirements setting) can also be found on arXiv.

• My PhD student Felipe Carrasco successfully defended his PhD thesis "Large-Scale Network Design and Optimization". Congratulations, Dr. Felipe!

Research Interests

My research is based at the intersection of discrete mathematics, theoretical computer science, and operations research. In particular, this includes:

• combinatorial optimization,

• design and analysis of algorithms,

• game theory and social choice,

• robustness and uncertainty,

• applications in production and logistics.

Short Bio

Since 2019, I work at KU Leuven, where I hold an appointment as Associate Professor of Operations Management in the Department of Decision Sciences and Information Management. I am also a member of the KU Leuven Institute for Artificial Intelligence (Leuven.AI) and the KU Leuven Institute for Mobility (LIM).

Before joining KU Leuven, I was a junior group leader/lecturer in the Operations Research group of Technische Universität München (2016-2018), a DAAD P.R.I.M.E. fellow at the University of Rome "Tor Vergata" (2015), and a postdoc at Universidad de Chile (2014). I completed my PhD in Mathematics in 2013 at TU Berlin under the supervison of Martin Skutella and Britta Peis.