Research

Numerical methods for constrained linear and nonlinear optimization and for large-scale linear algebra problems;
Derivative-free algorithms and black-box optimization for continuous and mixed-integer variables;
Applications: optimization problems arising in the aeronautical design, modal analysis of elastic structures arising in the study of the behavior of masonry buildings, contact mechanics; matrix completion problems;
MATLAB and Fortran development.

Department of Mathematics, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy - D. Palitta, V. Simoncini
Department of Mathematics "T. Levi Civita", University of Padova, Padova, Italy - F. Rinaldi
Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell'Informazione "A. Faedo" CNR (ISTI-CNR), Pisa, Italy - C. Padovani
University of Namur, Namur Belgium (UNAMUR) - Ph. L. Toint
The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK - J. Gondzio, J. Pearson
Chemnitz University of Technology (TU Chemnitz), Chemnitz, Germany - M. Stoll
École normale supérieure de Lyon (ENS Lyon) - E. Riccietti

2024-2025 Participant of the PRIN PNRR project Advanced optimization METhods for automated central veIn Sign detection in multiple sclerosis from magneTic resonAnce imaging (AMETISTA), Italian Ministry of University and Research.

PIs: Alice Mariottini (NEUROFARBA-UniFI), Federica Porta (UniMORE).

2023-2024 PI of the project Modelli con rango basso e algoritmi di ottimizzazione per l'analisi dati, Progetto INdAM-GNCS 2024.
2022-2024 Responsible of the PhD project Black-Box optimization for clean energy technologies, PON “Ricerca e Innovazione” 2014 – 2020.

2022-2024 Participant of the project of Centro Nazionale HPC - "National Centre for HPC, Big Data and Quantum Computing", Spoke 10 "Quantum Computing", call “Campioni Nazionali” (M4C2 1.4).
2020-2021 PI of the project Ottimizzazione e algebra lineare avanzata per problemi governati da PDEs, Progetto INdAM-GNCS 2020.
2018-2020 Optimization and low-rank solvers for isogeometric analysis, MIUR-DAAD Joint Mobility Program - 2a edizione.

Italian PI V. Simoncini (Università di Bologna, Italy)

German PI M. Stoll (TU Chemnitz, Germany).