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Curriculum Vitae
Informazioni personali
SCHOEN, Fabio
Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell’Informazione, Universit`a degli Studi di Firenze,
via di Santa Marta, 3, 50139 Firenze (Italy)
Telefono
+39 055 275 8512
Email
fabio.schoen@unifi.it
Sito web
webgol.dinfo.unifi.it
Data di nascita Trieste, 15/02/1954
Formazione
Novembre 1978 Laurea in Matematica (110/110 e laude). Tesi: “Applicazione della tecnica del
filtro di Kalman alla stima della matrice Hessiana in problemi di ottimizzazione”
1980 C.I.M.P.A. Graduate school in Statistics (Nice, France)
1980 Post Graduate school in Optimization (Hatfield Polytechnic - U.K.)
1981 Post Graduate school in Parallel Computing Algorithms (Bergamo, Italy)
Posizioni ricoperte
1979 Borsa di studio “Centro di Calcolo Scientifico dell’Universit`a degli Studi di Milano”
(data acquisition and analysis)
1980 - 81 Borsa di Studio Universit`a degli Studi di Milano (Analisi Numerica)
1982 Borsa di studio Istituto per le Applicazioni della Matematica e dell’Informatica
(IAMI) del CNR (optimal decision theory)
1984 - 1987 ricercatore presso IAMI/CNR
1987 - 1993 Professore Associato di Ricerca Operativa e Gestione Aziendale - Corso di
Laurea in Scienze dell’Informazione, Universit`a degli Studi di Milano
1993 - 2000 Professore Associato di Ricerca Operativa - Corso di Laurea in Ingegneria
Informatica - Universit`a degli Studi di Firenze
dal 2000 Professore Ordinario di Ricerca Operativa - Universit`a degli Studi di Firenze.
2009 - 2011 Professore a contratto di “Competitive Advantage from Operations”- New York
University (campus di Firenze)
dal 2012 Professore a contratto di “Operations management”- New York University
(campus di Firenze)
Participazione a comitati
(dopo il 2000)
dal 1996 Associate editor del Journal of Global Optimization
2000 - 2001 Editor di 3 numeri speciali del Journal of Global Optimization (vol 18 n. 4, vol 19
n. 3, vol 21. n. 3)
2002 Workshop Organizer: “Integrazione tariffaria nel Trasporto Pubblico Locale”, Firenze 18.11.2002

2004 Workshop Chairman “Integration between vehicle routing and microscopic simulation”, Firenze, 23-24.IV.2004
dal 2007 Associate Editor della rivista “Computational Optimization and Applications”
2007 Direttore Scientifico CIME International School “Nonlinear Optimization”, Cetraro (CS)
2008 - 2016 membro del Consiglio Scientifico del CIME - Centro Interuniversitario
Matematico Estivo
2011-2014 Socio fondatore e responsabile scientifico della startup KKT srl, ora parte del gruppo Verizon Connect
2013 Conference chairman “Europt2013 - Workshop on Continuous Optimization” 
dal 2014 Associate Editor della rivista Operations Research Letters

dal 2014 Associate Editor della rivista Optimization Methods and Software
2016-2018 Presidente Comitato per la Ricerca del DINFO, Unifi
2016 Socio fondatore e responsabile scientifico della startup Intuendi.com
da Nov 2018 Coordinatore del corso di Dottorato di Ricerca in Ingegneria dell’Informazione
2020 Responsabile dello Scientific Commitee del Workshop on Global Optimization, 2020, Szeged (Hungary)
dal 2021 membro dell’Editorial Board di EURO Journal on Computational Optimization

Coordinamento progetti (dall’anno 2000)
2001 - 2004 coordinatore locale Work Package 4 “Global Optimization” progetto FIRB “Large Scale Nonlinear Optimization”
2003/04 Coordinatore “Progetto Metromob - I2T3: Metodi e modelli per l’integrazione tariffaria ed oraria nei servizi di trasporto pubblico locale”

2004 Coordinatore del progetto Regione Toscana: “Metodologie per l’instradamento in area urbana di veicoli per la consegna di merci”
2005 Coordinatore del progetto I2T3 “Analisi di modelli, simulazione ed ottimizzazione per l’integrazione del trasporto merci in ambito urbano”
2005 - 2007 Coordinatore locale della ricerca “Global optimization for problems with a huge number of local optima” nell’ambito del progetto nazionale “Innovative Problems and Methods in Nonlinear Optimization”
2005 ATAF spa - Responsabile scientifico locale del progetto “INTERREG III C SUNRISE (Cohesion sociale dans les zones urbaines/rurales base sur services collectifs de mobilite innovateurs et durables)”
2006 Coordinatore locale del I2T3 progetto “AGATA - Modelli ed algoritmi per l’instradamento di veicoli su reti urbane”
2007 Coordinatore del preogetto Sitel “Studio di algoritmi per l’ottimizzazione di percorsi su reti di trasporto”
2007 Direttore Scientifico CIME International School “Nonlinear Optimization”, Cetraro (CS)
2008-09 Responsabile scentifico locale del progetto PRIN “Nonlinear Optimization, Variational Inequalities and Equilbrium Problems”.
2009 Responsabile scentifico locale del progetto “Strumenti di Supporto per l’Agenzia Metropolitana della Mobilit`a”, ( Fondazione per la ricerca e l’innovazione promossa dall’Universit`a di Firenze)
2010 Responsabile scentifico locale del progetto “Tips&Info4BRT - Traffic lights priority system and information workflow for Bus Rapid Transit Corridors” RESOLVO srl e Memex

2010 Responsabile scentifico locale del progetto “Sistema integrato per la progettazione di politiche tariffarie per il TPL, la gestione e l’analisi dei risultati” (MAIOR srl)
2010-2011 Responsabile scentifico locale del progetto “Mac-Geo”, Regione Toscana
2010-2012
Responsabile scentifico locale del progetto ”TraMes – Trasporto Merci
Sostenibile” Interporto della Toscana - Prato
2013-2014
Responsabile scentifico locale del progetto SMARTY – SMArt Transport for
sustainable citY (main contractor: Softec Spa)
2013
Participante, progetto MIDA - Machine Intelligence for Diagnosis Automation
(main contractor: Mecoil srl)
2016-2018
Responsabile scentifico locale di un aunit`a di ricerca nel progetto Sii-mobility –
Progetto Nazionale SMART city
2016-2019
Responsabile scentifico locale del progetto LINFA (Logistica Intelligente del
Farmaco)
2017-2019
Responsabile Scientifico del progetto LINFA
2017-2018
Collaboratore scientifico del progetto Syllabus dell’insegnamento di Industria 4.0
nelle Universit`a Toscane
2018-2019
Responsabile scentifico locale del progetto Assessment Industria 4.0 di Regione
Toscana
2018,2019,2020
Responsabile scientifico convenzioni di ricerca con KKT srl su Object detection
2019
Responsabile scientifico convenzione di ricerca con Resolvo srl nell’ambito del
progetto Optimal Sea Factory
2019
Responsabile scientifico convenzione di ricerca con Albini & Pitigliani spa su
pianificazione e ottimizzazione del carico
2020
Responsabile scientifico convenzione di ricerca con Yanmar Europe R&D su
Machine learning nella diagnosi automatica di guasti
2021-23
Responsabile scientifico progetto di ricerca AIMS - Artificial Intelligence for the
Management of Shifts, Regione Toscana
2022 CO-chairman dell'International Workshop on Optimization and Decision Science ODS2022

Attività didattica (dall’anno 2000)
dal 2000 diversi corsi del settore (Fondamenti di Ricerca Operativa, Elementi di Ricerca Operativa, Metodi e Modelli per le Decisioni, Modelli e Algoritmi per l’Organizzazione e la Gestione, Ottimizzazione Combinatoria)
2007, 2008 Invited teacher “Local and Global Optimization”, HYCON-EECI Graduate School
on Control, Univ. Paris Sud 
2009-2011 “Competitive Advantage from Operations”, New York University, Campus di Villa La Pietra (Firenze)

dal 2012 “Operations Management”, New York University, Stern Business Schol, Campus di Villa La Pietra (Firenze)
2012 “Introduction to Local and Global Optimization”, corso di dottorato, IMT, Lucca
2012 “Introduction to Local and Global Optimization”, corso di dottorato, Università di Parma
2013 Phd couse “Global Optimization”, Università di Firenze
2020 Phd couse “Global Optimization”, Università di Firenze

insegnamenti attuali (2023–2024)
Optimization Techniques and Data Science for BioEngineering - 6 CFU - Corso di Laurea in Ingegneria Biomedica;
Optimization and Data Science for Management (9 CFU) – Corso di Laurea Magistrale in Management Engineering

Invited Speaker
2007 “Large scale global optimization”, International School of Mathematics “G. Stampacchia”: Workshop New Problems And Innovative Methods In Nonlinear Optimization

2007 “Large Scale Global Optimization: a survey of some recent success stories”, ¨Osterreichische Gesellschaft f¨ur Operations Research Annual and General Meeting 2007, Vienna
2007 “Global Optimization of Binary Lennard-Jones clusters”, Global Optimization Workshop 2007, Imperial College (London)
December 2008 “Large Scale Global Optimization: from molecular clusters to space trajectories.”, VOCAL08, Veszprem (Hungary)
November 2010 “Global Optimization of Expensive Black-box Functions: a survey on model-based approaches”, IASI CNR, Roma
December 2013 “Global Optimization Based on Local Searches”, Imperial College, London October 27, 2017
“Optimization: a unifying framework for applied problem solving”, Roma, , CNR - Giornate FIMA
December 16-20, 2017 “ New Perspectives on Clustering Methods for Global Optimization”, 4th
Conference on Optimization Methods and Software, Havana, Cuba
July 21-25, 2018 “Large Scale Global Optimization”, Metaheuristics Summer School MESS2018, Acireale (CT)
April 2, 2022 “Clustering for Optimization, Optimization for Clustering”, Florence Center for Data Science
October 2022 “Clusters everywhere: Clustering methods for Global Optimization, Global Optimization for Clustering, with application to atomic Clusters”, Needs on line Seminar

Premi e Competizioni
2006 vincitore del Circle Packing Contest
2010 4a posizione nella GTOC5 Competition (Trajectory Planning for interplanetary missions) in collaborazione con l’Agenzia Spaziale Europea
2015 6a posizione nell’INRC-II International Nurse Rostering Competition

Tutoraggio di studenti di dottorato
Tomaso Trinci (dott industriale, XXXVII)
Tommaso Aldinucci (XXXVI)
Pierluigi Mansueto (XXXVI)
Simone Magistri (XXXVI)
Piero Danti (XXXVI) (dottorato industriale presso Yanmar Italy)
Enrico Civitelli (XXXV)
Lorenzo Buffoni (XXXIV)
Matteo Simoncini (XXXIII) (dottorato industriale presso Verizon Connect Italy)
Leonardo Di Gangi (XXXIII)
Alessio Sortino (XXXIII)
Luca Tigli (XXXII) – ora presso Intuendi srl
Francesco Bagattini (XXX) – ora free lance Data Scientist
Federica Picca Nicolino (XXIX) – ora Operations research analyst presso
Intuendi
Mirko Maischberger (XXIII) – ora presso Nokia Here, Berlin
Andrea Cassioli – ora Optimization Specialist presso Maersk, Copenaghen
Paolo Frosini – ora fondatore e amministratore, Resolvo srl
Bernardetta Addis – ora Associate professor, Univ Nancy
Marco Locatelli – ora Professore Ordinario, Univ Parma

SCHOEN, Fabio
Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell’Informazione, Universit`a degli Studi di Firenze,
via di Santa Marta, 3, 50139 Firenze (Italy)
Telephone
+39 055 275 8512
Personal Email
fabio.schoen@unifi.it
Home page
webgol.dinfo.unifi.it

Education and training

November 1978
Laurea degree in Mathematics (110/110 with laude). Thesis: “Application of
Kalman filtering technique to the estimation of the Hessian matrix in optimization
problems”
1980
C.I.M.P.A. Graduate school in Statistics (Nice, France)
1980
Post Graduate school in Optimization (Hatfield Polytechnic - U.K.)
1981
Post Graduate school in Parallel Computing Algorithms (Bergamo, Italy)

Positions

1979
fellowship from “Centro di Calcolo Scientifico dell’Universit`a degli Studi di Milano”
(research on data acquisition and analysis)
1980 - 81
fellowship from Universit`a degli Studi di Milano (research in Numerical Analysis)
1982
fellowship from Istituto per le Applicazioni della Matematica e dell’Informatica
(IAMI) of CNR (research on optimal decision theory)
1984 - 1987
research assistant at IAMI/CNR
1987 - 1993
Associate Professor of Operations Research and Management Science - Corso
di Laurea in Scienze dell’Informazione, Universit`a degli Studi di Milano
1.11.1993 - 2000
Associate Professor of Operations Research - Corso di Laurea in Ingegneria
Informatica - Universit`a degli Studi di Firenze
1.09.2000 - present
Full professor of Operations Research - Universit`a degli Studi di Firenze.
2009 - 2011
Adjoint professor of “Competitive Advantage from Operations”- New York Univer-
sity (Firenze campus)
2012 - present
Adjoint professor of “Operations management”- New York University (Firenze
campus)

Participation to committees (since year 2000)

1996 - present:
Associate editor of Journal of Global Optimization
2000 - 2001
Editor of 3 special issues of Journal of Global Optimization (vol 18 n. 4, vol 19 n.
3, vol 21. n. 3)
June 2002
Conference Chairman “International Workshop on Simulation tools for health
care management”, Lido di Camaiore
2002
Workshop Organizer: “Integrazione tariffaria nel Trasporto Pubblico Locale”,
Firenze 18.11.2002
2004
Workshop Chairman “Integration between vehicle routing and microscopic sim-
ulation”, Firenze, 23-24.IV.2004
2007 - present
Associate Editor of “Computational Optimization and Applications”
2007 - present
member elected of the Scientific Committee of CIRO (Centro Interuniversitario
Ricerca Operativa)
2007
Scientific Director of the CIME International School “Nonlinear Optimization”, Cetraro (CS)
2008 - 2016
member of the Scientific Committee of CIME - Centro Interuniversitario Matematico Estivo
2011-2014
Founder and Scientific coordinator of KKT srl, a startup devoted to Operations
Research recognized as an official spinoff of the University of Florence. KKT is
now part of Verizon Connect
2013
Conference chairman “Europt2013 - Workshop on Continuous Optimization”
2014-present
Associate Editor of Operations Research Letters
2014-present
Associate Editor of Optimization Methods and Software
2016-present
Presidente of the Committee for Research and Technological Transfer, Dept
Information Science, University of Florence

2016
Founder of Intuendi.com, a startup devoted to demand planning and inventory
optimization
Nov 2018-present
Coordinator of the PhD program in Information engineering
2020
Head of the Scientific Commitee of the Workshop on Global Optimization, 2020
to be held in Szeged (Hungary)
since 2021
member of the Editorial Board of Euro Journal on Computational Optimization
August–September 2022
Co-chair of the International Conference “ODS2022 Optimization and Decision
Science”

Project coordination (since year 2000)

2001 - 2004

local coordinator of Work Package 4 “Global Optimization” within the national
FIRB project “Large Scale Nonlinear Optimization”
2003-2004
Coordinator of “Progetto Metromob - I2T3: Metodi e modelli per l’integrazione
tariffaria ed oraria nei servizi di trasporto pubblico locale”
2004
Coordinator of Regione Toscana project: “Metodologie per l’instradamento in
area urbana di veicoli per la consegna di merci”
2005
Coordinator of I2T3 Project “Analisi di modelli, simulazione ed ottimizzazione per
l’integrazione del trasporto merci in ambito urbano”
2005 - 2007
local coordinator of the research “Global optimization for problems with a huge
number of local optima” within the National Project “Innovative Problems and
Methods in Nonlinear Optimziation”
2005
ATAF spa - Local Scientific responsible of Project “INTERREG III C SUNRISE
(Cohesion sociale dans les zones urbaines/rurales base sur services collectifs
de mobilite innovateurs et durables)”
2006
Local Coordinator of I2T3 Project “AGATA - Modelli ed algoritmi per
l’instradamento di veicoli su reti urbane”
2007
Coordinator of Sitel Project “Studio di algoritmi per l’ottimizzazione di percorsi su
reti di trasporto”
2007
Scientific Director of the CIME International School “Nonlinear Optimization”, Ce-
traro (CS)
2008-2009
Local Scientific responsible of Project PRIN “Nonlinear Optimization, Variational
Inequalities and Equilbrium Problems”.
2009
Local Coordinator responsible for Project “Strumenti di Supporto per l’Agenzia
Metropolitana della Mobilit`a”, ( Fondazione per la ricerca e l’innovazione
promossa dall’Università di Firenze)

2010
Local Coordinator responsible for Project “Tips&Info4BRT - Traffic lights priority
system and information work-flow for Bus Rapid Transit Corridors” RESOLVO srl
and Memex
2010
Local Coordinator responsible for Project “Sistema integrato per la progettazione
di politiche tariffarie per il TPL, la gestione e l’analisi dei risultati” (MAIOR srl)
2010-2011
Local Coordinator responsible for Project “Mac-Geo”, Regione Toscana
2010-2012
Local Coordinator responsible for Project ”TraMes – Trasporto Merci Sostenibile”
Interporto della Toscana - Prato
2013-2014
Local responsible for project SMARTY – SMArt Transport for sustainable citY
(main contractor: Softec Spa)
2013
Participant, project MIDA - Machine Intelligence for Diagnosis Automation (main
contractor: Mecoil srl)
2016-2018
Local coordinator of a research unit for the Sii-mobility SMART city National project
2016-2019
Local coordinator of a research unit for the LINFA (Logistica Intelligente del Farmaco) research project
2017-2019
Scientific Coordinator of the LINFA research project
2017-2018
Scientific Coordinator of a Tuscany Region collaboration on the compilation of a
Syllabus of Industry 4.0 teaching in Tuscan Universities
2018-2019
Scientific Coordinator of a research project from Tuscany Region on Industry 4.0
Assessment
2018,2019,2020
Scientific Responsible of research contracts with KKT srl on Object detection
2019
Scientific coordinator of a contract with Resolvo srl within project Optimal Sea
Factory
2019
Scientific coordinator of a project with Albini & Pitigliani spa optimal planning for
truck loading
2020
Scientific coordinator of a research with Yanmar Europe R&D on “’Machine
learning for automatic fault diagnosis”

2021-2023
Scientific coordinator of the AIMS research project - Artificial Intelligence for the
Management of Shifts

Teaching Activity (since 2000)

many different courses (Fondamenti di Ricerca Operativa, Elementi di Ricerca
Operativa, Metodi e Modelli per le Decisioni, Modelli e Algoritmi per
l’Organizzazione e la Gestione, Ottimizzazione Combinatoria)
2007, 2008
Invited teacher of the course “Local and Global Optimization”, HYCON-EECI
Graduate School on Control, Univ. Paris Sud
2009-2011
“Competitive Advantage from Operations”, New York University, Campus di Villa
La Pietra (Firenze)
since 2012
“Operations Management”, New York University, Stern Business Schol, Campus
di Villa La Pietra (Firenze)
2012
“Introduction to Local and Global Optimization”, PhD course at IMT, Lucca
2012
“Introduction to Local and Global Optimization”, PhD program at Università di
Parma
2013
Phd couse “Global Optimization”, Università di Firenze
2023
Phd couse “Global Optimization”, Università di Firenze

current (2023–2024) teaching

Optimization Techniques and Data Science for BioEngineering - 6 CFU - Laurea
degree in Biomedical Engineering;
Optimization and Data Science for Management (9 CFU) –Master degree in
Management Engineering

Invited Seminars

July 31 - August 9, 2007
“Large scale global optimization”, International School of Mathematics
“G. Stampacchia”: Workshop New Problems And Innovative Methods In Nonlinear Optimization

2007
“Large Scale Global Optimization: a survey of some recent success stories”,
¨Osterreichische Gesellschaft f¨ur Operations Research Annual and General
Meeting 2007, Vienna
2007
“Global Optimization of Binary Lennard-Jones clusters”, Global Optimization
Workshop 2007, Imperial College (London)
December 2008
“Large Scale Global Optimization: from molecular clusters to space trajectories.”,
VOCAL08, Ves´zprem (Hungary)
November 2010
“Global Optimization of Expensive Black-box Functions: a survey on model-
based approaches”, IASI CNR, Roma
December 2013
“Global Optimization Based on Local Searches”, Imperial College, London
October 27, 2017
“Optimization: a unifying framework for applied problem solving”, Roma, , CNR -
Giornate FIMA
December 16-20, 2017
“ New Perspectives on Clustering Methods for Global Optimization”, 4th Conference on Optimization Methods and Software, Havana, Cuba
July 21-25, 2018
“Large Scale Global Optimization”, Metaheuristics Summer School MESS2018,
Acireale (CT)
April 2, 2022
“Clustering for Optimization, Optimization for Clustering”, Florence Center for
Data Science
October 2022
“Clusters everywhere: Clustering methods for Global Optimization, Global Optimization for Clustering, with application to atomic Clusters”, Needs on line Seminar

Prizes and Competitions

2006
winner of the Circle Packing Contest
2010
4-th position in the GTOC5 Competition (Trajectory Planning for interplanetary
missions) in collaboration with the European Space Agency
June 2015
6–th position in the INRC-II International Nurse Rostering Competition

PhD students tutoring

Tomaso Trinci (industrial PhD, XXXVII)
Tommaso Aldinucci (XXXVI)
Pierluigi Mansueto (XXXVI)
Simone Magistri (XXXVI)
Piero Danti (XXXVI) (industrial PhD at Yanmar Italy)
Enrico Civitelli (XXXV)
Leonardo Di Gangi (XXXIII)
Alessio Sortino (XXXIII)
Luca Tigli (XXXII) – now Software Engineer at Intuendi
Francesco Bagattini (XXX) – now free lance Data Scientist
Federica Picca Nicolino (XXIX) – now Operations research analyst at Intuendi
Mirko Maischberger (XXIII) – now at Nokia
Andrea Cassioli – now Optimization Specialist at Maersk, Copenaghen
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Paolo Frosini – nw Owner and Manager, Resolvo srl
Bernardetta Addis – now Associate professor, Univ Nancy
Marco Locatelli – now Full professor, Univ Parma