email: sebastian.davila@usach.cl
I am an Assistant Professor in the Industrial Engineering Departament at Universidad de Santiago de Chile. I also belong to the Program for the Development of Sustainable Production Systems (PDSPS) and the Cell2fire group.
My research interests are mixed-integer programming, bilevel programming, and large-scale optimization, which are applied to recycling, education, location, wildfire, and assortment problems.
I did my Ph.D. at Universidad de Chile advised by Fernando Ordoñez and co-advised by Vladimir Marianov. The title of my thesis is Algorithms for bi-level optimization in retail: pricing, assortment and demand coordination. I was graduated of Industrial Engineer and Ms.C. Engineering at Universidad de Santiago de Chile. In addition, I was graduated of Ms.C. Innovation management and design production at Université Lorraine.
Currently, I am doing a postdoctoral on the INOCS team of the Centre Inria de l'Université de Lille under the supervision of Luce Brotcorne. The project is titled "Application of Stackelberg games to deter crime and improve security perception in urban areas," which aims to address the patrolling strategy and unpredictable patrol scheduling to deter crime and improve the perception of safety in urban areas from the point of view of the Stackelberg game, taking into account realistic models for the reaction of urban criminals, realistic models for the actions of the police authority, and guaranteeing the quality of the solutions in terms of the optimality gap.