Il ricevimento studenti è fissato il mercoledì dalle 9:30 alle 11:30 in stanza 241 presso il DINFO (Scuola di ingegneria, Via di Santa Marta 3)
Marianna De Santis nasce a Firenze il 28.12.1982.
Si laurea nel 2007 in Matematica (con votazione di 110 e lode) presso la Sapienza Università di Roma. A giugno 2012 consegue il Dottorato in Ricerca Operativa presso la Sapienza Università di Roma.Da gennaio 2012 fino a gennaio 2013 lavora presso l'Istituto di Analisi dei Sistemi ed Informatica del CNR come assegnista d ricerca.Da settembre 2013 fino a febbraio 2016 lavora nel gruppo di Ottimizzazione discreta presso la facoltà di matematica dell'università tecnica di Dortmund (Germania).Da marzo a settembre 2016 lavora come post-doc presso l'istituto di matematica dell'Alpen-Adria-Universität di Klagenfurt (Austria).Da settembre 2016 a marzo 2017 lavora come assegnista di ricerca presso il Dipartimento di Matematica, Università di Padova.Dal 31 marzo 2017 al 30 marzo 2020 è ricercatrice a tempo determinato (RTDb) presso il DIAG, Dipartimento di ingegneria informatica automatica e gestionale della Sapienza Università di Roma.A maggio 2019 consegue l'Abilitazione Scientifica Nazionale a ricoprire il ruolo di professore di II fascia per il settore scientifico disciplinare MAT/09 (Ricerca Operativa).A partire dal 31 marzo 2020 fino al 31 gennaio 2024 è professore associato (s.s.d. MAT/09) presso il DIAG, Dipartimento di ingegneria informatica automatica e gestionale della Sapienza Università di Roma.
Dal primo febbraio 2024 è professore associato (s.s.d. MAT/09) presso il DINFO, Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell'Informazione dell'Università di Firenze.
I suoi interessi di ricerca si concentrano sulla programmazione mista intera nonlineare, la programmazione nonlineare a grande dimensione e la programmazione multiobiettivo.
Esperienze lavorative:
1 Febbraio 2024 - : Professoressa associata - DINFO, Università di Firenze, Italy
31 Marzo 2020 - 31 Gennaio 2024 : Professoressa associata - DIAG, Sapienza, Università di Roma, Italy
31 Marzo 2017 - 30 Marzo 2020: RTDB - Dipartimento di ingegneria informatica automatica e gestionale (DIAG), Sapienza, Università di Roma, Italy
Settembre 2016 - Marzo 2017: Post-doc - Dipartimento di Matematica, Università di Padova, Italy
Marzo 2016 - Settembre 2016: Post-doc - Institut für Mathematik, Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Austria
Settembre 2013 - Marzo 2016: Post-doc - Discrete Optimization group, Fakultät für Mathematik, Technische Universität Dortmund, Germany
Gennaio 2012 - Gennaio 2013: Post-doc at “Istituto di Analisi dei Sistemi ed Informatica”, IASI, National Research Council (CNR), Rome, Italy
Istruzione:
Titolo della tesi: Continuous approaches to mixed integer programming problems; Advisor: Prof. Stefano Lucidi
24 Ottobre 2007: Laurea Specialistica in Matematical per le applicazioni, Sapienza University of Rome
Voto: 110/110 cum laude
Titolo della tesi: Alcuni algoritmi per il filtraggio nonlineare (Some algorithms for nonlinear filtering); Advisor: Prof. Maurizio Falcone
25 Febbraio, 2005: Laurea triennale in Matematica, Sapienza University of Rome.
Voto: 110/110;
Titolo della tesi: Costruzioni di frattali tramite IFS (Fractals construction by iterated functions systems); Advisor: Prof. Luigi Orsina
Ottobre 2003 - Marzo 2004: Erasmus European Union Program, Université Pierre et Marie Curie - 6th University of Paris.
Pubblicazioni (qui la mia pagina Google Scholar):
Articoli pubblicati su riviste internazionali:
M. De Santis, S. de Vries, M. Schmidt, L. Winkel, A Penalty Branch-and-Bound Method for Mixed-Binary Complementarity Problems, INFORMS Journal on Computing 34(6):3117-3133, (2022).
A. Cristofari, M. De Santis, S. Lucidi and F. Rinaldi. Minimization over the l1-ball using an active-set non-monotone projected gradient, Computational Optimization and Applications, 83(2), pp. 693–721, (2022).
M. De Santis, G. Eichfelder, D. Patria, On the exactness of the eps-constraint method for bi-objective integer nonlinear programming, Operations Research Letters, 50, pp. 356-361, (2022).
M.Petti, L. Farina, F. Francone, S. Lucidi, A. Macali, L. Palagi, M. De Santis, "MOSES: a new approach to integrate interactome topology and functional features for disease gene prediction", Genes, 12(11), 1713; https://doi.org/10.3390/genes12111713, (2021).
M. De Santis, G. Eichfelder. A Decision Space Algorithm for Multiobjective Convex Quadratic Integer Optimization, Computers & Operations Research, Volume 134, 105396 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cor.2021.105396, (2021).
M. Conforti, M. De Santis, M. Di Summa and F. Rinaldi. Scanning integer points with lex-inequalities: A finite cutting plane algorithm for integer programming with linear objective, 4OR, 19, 531-548, (2021).
M. Cerulli, M. De Santis, E. Gaar, A. Wiegele. Improving ADMMs for Solving Doubly Nonnegative Programs through Dual Factorization, 4OR, 19, 415-448, (2021).
M. De Santis, G. Eichfelder, J. Niebling, S. Rocktaeschel. Solving Multiobjective Mixed Integer Convex Optimization Problems, SIAM Journal on Optimization, 30(4), pp. 3122–3145, (2020).
A. Cristofari, M. De Santis, S. Lucidi and F. Rinaldi. An Active-Set Algorithmic Framework for Non-Convex Optimization Problems over the Simplex, Computational Optimization and Applications, 77, pp. 57-89 (2020).
M. De Santis, G. Grani and L. Palagi. The Frontier Partitioner Algorithm: a Branch and Cut algorithm for Biobjective Integer Programming, European Journal of Operational Research, 283(1), pp. 57-69, (2020).
C. Buchheim, M. De Santis. An Active Set Algorithm for Robust Combinatorial Optimization Based on Separation Oracles, Mathematical Programming Computation, 11(4), pp.755-789, (2019).
A. Cristofari, M. De Santis, S. Lucidi and F. Rinaldi. Data and performance of an active-set truncated Newton method with non-monotone line search for bound-constrained optimization, Data in Brief, 21, pp. 2155-2169, (2018).
M. De Santis, F. Rendl, A. Wiegele. Using a Factored Dual in Augmented Lagrangian Methods for Semidefinite Programming, Operations Research Letters, 46(5), pp.523-528, (2018).
C. Buchheim, M. De Santis, F. Rinaldi and L. Trieu. A Frank-Wolfe Based Branch-and-Bound Algorithm for Mean-Risk Optimization, Journal of Global Optimization, 70(3), pp. 625-644, (2018).
A. Cristofari, M. De Santis, S. Lucidi and F. Rinaldi. A two-stage active-set algorithm for minimization problems with bound constraints, Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications, 172(2), pp. 369-401, (2017).
C. Buchheim, M. De Santis, S. Lucidi, F. Rinaldi and L. Trieu. A Feasible Active Set Method with Reoptimization for Convex Quadratic Mixed-Integer Programming. SIAM Journal on Optimization, 26(3), pp. 1695-1714, (2016).
M. De Santis, P. Festa, G. Liuzzi, S. Lucidi and F. Rinaldi. Nonmonotone GRASP. Mathematical Programming Computation, 8(3), pp. 271-309, (2016).
M. De Santis, S. Lucidi, F. Rinaldi. A Fast Active Set Block Coordinate Descent Algorithm for l1-regularized least squares. SIAM Journal on Optimization 26(1), pp. 781-809, (2016).
C. Buchheim, M. De Santis and L. Palagi. A Fast Branch-and-Bound Algorithm for Non-convex Quadratic Integer Optimization Subject To Linear Constraints Using Ellipsoidal Relaxations. Operations Research Letters, 43(4), pp.384-388, (2015).
M. De Santis, S. Lucidi and F. Rinaldi. Feasibility Pump-Like Heuristics for Mixed Integer Problems. Discrete Applied Mathematics, 165, pp. 152-167, (2014).
M. De Santis, F. Rinaldi, E. Falcone, S. Lucidi, G. Piaggio, A. Gurtner and L. Farina. Combining optimization and machine learning techniques for genome wide prediction of human cell-cycle regulated genes. Bioinformatics, 30(2), pp.228-233, (2014).
C. Buchheim, M. De Santis, L. Palagi and M. Piacentini. An Exact Algorithm for Nonconvex Quadratic Integer Minimization using Ellipsoidal Relaxations. SIAM Journal on Optimization, 23(3), pp. 1867-1889, (2013).
M. De Santis, S. Lucidi and F. Rinaldi. A new class of functions for measuring solution integrality in the Feasibility Pump approach. SIAM Journal on Optimization, 23(3), pp. 1575-606, (2013).
M. De Santis and F. Rinaldi. Continuous reformulations for zero-one programming problems. Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications, 153(1), pp. 75–84, (2012).
M. De Santis, G. Di Pillo and S. Lucidi. An active set feasible method for large-scale minimization problems with bound constraints. Computational Optimization and Applications, 53(2), pp. 395–423, (2012).
Conference Proceedings (refereed):
M. De Santis. Dual approaches for a specific class of integer nonlinear programming problems, 14th Cologne-Twente Workshop, CTW 2016.
M. De Santis, S. Lucidi and F. Rinaldi. A new feasibility pump-like heuristic for mixed integer problems 10th Cologne-Twente Workshop on Graphs and Combinatorial Optimization, CTW 2011.
M. De Santis, S. Lucidi and F. Rinaldi. Continuous reformulations for zero-one programming problems 10th Cologne-Twente Workshop on Graphs and Combinatorial Optimization, CTW 2011.
Tesi di dottorato:
M. De Santis Continuous approaches to mixed integer programming problems, PhD Thesis, 2012
Preprints:
Altro:
Tutorial on MultiObjective Mixed Integer Nonlinear Programming, IFORS News Volume 16 | Number 3 | September 2021 | ISSN 2223-4373
Grants:
15 febbraio 2025- 15 marzo 2025 : visiting professor at LIPN, Université Sorbonne Paris Nord, France
PI del progetto di ricerca "Augmented Lagrangian approaches for Large Scale Semidefinite Programming", Progetti di Ricerca (Progetti Medi) 2020 - Sapienza University of Rome
DAAD scholarship - Research Stays for University Academics and Scientists - May 2019, Technische Universität Ilmenau, Germany
PI del progetto di ricerca "Exact Approaches for Solving Multiobjective Integer Optimization Problem", Progetti di Ricerca (Progetti Piccoli) 2018 - Sapienza University of Rome
FFABR (Fondo per il Finanziamento delle Attività Base di Ricerca) 2017, Anvur
PI del progetto di ricerca "Nonlinear Approaches for the Solution of Hard Optimization Problems with Integer Variables", Progetti di Ricerca (Progetti Piccoli) 2017 - Sapienza University of Rome
Attività didattica:
Dall'a.a. 2024/2025 : Docente del corso "Tecniche di Ottimizzazione e Data Science per la Bioingegneria" (6CFU) - Bachelor of Science in Bioengineering, Università degli studi di Firenze, Italy
Semestre invernale 2023/2024: Docente del corso “Ricerca Operativa”(6CFU) - Bachelor of Science in Computer Science Engineering - Sapienza, Università di Roma (sede di Latina), Italy
Semestre invernale 2023/2024: Docente del corso “Ottimizzazione”(6CFU) - Bachelor of Science in Computer Science Engineering - Sapienza, Università di Roma (sede di Latina), Italy
Semestre estivo 2021/2022 e 2022/2023: Docente del corso "Ottimizzazione dei sistemi complessi" (6CFU)- Master of Science in Management Engineering - Sapienza, Università di Roma, Italy
Maggio 2021 : Corso di dottorato "Introduction to Semidefinite Programming" - ABRO PhD program - Dipartimento di ingegneria informatica automatica e gestionale - Sapienza, Università di Roma
Semestre invernale 2020/2021: Docente del corso "Analisi Matematica 2" (6CFU)- Bachelor of Science in Management Engineering - Sapienza, Università di Roma, Italy
From 2017/2018 - until 2022/2023: Docente del corso “Ricerca Operativa” (Operations Research) (12CFU) - Bachelor of Science in Management Engineering - Sapienza, Università di Roma, Italy
Summer semester 2015/2016: Teacher of “Integer Programming” - Master of Science in Mathematics - Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Austria (held in english)
Winter semester 2015/2016: Teacher of “Student Project: Optimization methods in Finance” - Master of Science in Mathematics for Economics (Wirtschaftsmathematik) - Technische Universität Dortmund, Germany (held in english)
Summer semester 2014/2015: Teacher of “Optimization methods in Finance” - Master of Science in Mathematics for Economics (Wirtschaftsmathematik) - Technische Universität Dortmund, Germany (held in english)
February 2012 : Lectures on "Constrained nonlinear optimization" - for the PhD in Operations Research - Dipartimento di ingegneria informatica automatica e gestionale - Sapienza, Università di Roma
A.Y. 2009/2010 and 2010/2011: Didactic assistant for the course of Operations Research for Management engineering, Sapienza University of Rome.
Visite ad istituti di ricerca:
24 - 26 February 2020: Department of Mathematics, Trier University, Germany (invited by Prof. Martin Schmidt)
1 - 31 May 2019 : Institute of Mathematics, Technische Universität Ilmenau, Germany - DAAD scholarship
6 - 11 August 2018 : Institute of Mathematics, Technische Universität Ilmenau, Germany (invited by prof. Gabriele Eichfelder)
24 - 26 June 2018 : Department of Mathematics, Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Austria (invited by prof. Angelika Wiegele)
19 - 25 February 2018 : Faculty of Mathematics, Technische Universität Dortmund, Germany (invited by prof. Christoph Buchheim)
29 January - 4 February 2018 : Department of Mathematics, Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Austria (invited by prof. Franz Rendl and prof. Angelika Wiegele)
2 - 9 July 2017 : Department of Mathematics, Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Austria (invited by prof. Franz Rendl and prof. Angelika Wiegele)
Organization of Minisymposia/ Workshops:
Co-organization (with Lavinia Amorosi) of the RAMOO 2023 workshop, Roma, Italia, 14 September 2023 - See also IFORS News December 2023 Issue
Member of the program committee for the conference ODS 2021, Roma, Italia, 14-17 September, 2021
Organization of the session “Multiobjective Mixed Integer Optimization” for the conference EUROPT 2021, Toulouse, France, 07-09 July, 2021
Organization of the session “Mixed Integer Multiobjective Optimization” for the conference EURO 2019, Dublin, Ireland, 23-26 June, 2019
Organization of the session “Optimization in Finance” for the conference FGI 2017, Padeborn, Germany, 25-28 September, 2017
Organization of a session within the cluster “Nonlinear Optimization” for the conference ICCOPT 2016, Tokyo, Japan, 6-11 August, 2016
Organization of a session within the cluster “Nonlinear Programming” for the conference ISMP 2015 , Pittsburgh, USA ,12-17 July, 2015
Invited seminars:
March, 11th 2025: ESSEC Business School, Paris Cergy, "Challenges in solving multiobjective mixed integer nonlinear programs: computation of efficient integer assignments and enclosures"
March, 6th 2025: LIPN, Sorbonne Paris Nord, "Designing sustainable diet plans by solving tri-objective 0-1 programs"
October, 15th 2024: DEIB, Politecnico di Milano, "Detecting the efficient integer assignments of multiobjective mixed integer nonlinear programming problems"
March, 4th 2021: ESR Days, lecture on multiobjective mixed integer nonlinear programming for the workshop organized by MINOA phd students
February, 26th 2021: Discrete Optimization Talks (DOTs), join the mailing list https://eepurl.com/gZtvOL for details, "Exact approaches for multiobjective mixed integer nonlinear programming problems"
February, 24 2020 : Department of Mathematics, Trier University, "Branch-and-bound Algorithms for structured Mixed Integer Nonlinear Programming Problems"
February, 12th 2020 : Dipartimento di Ingegneria e Scienze dell'Informazione e Matematica, Università dell'Aquila, "Alternating Direction Methods of Multipliers for Solving Doubly Nonnegative Programs"
May, 6th 2019 : Institute of Mathematics, Technische Universität Ilmenau, "Branching with Hyperplanes in the Criterion Space: the Frontier Partitioner Algorithm for Biobjective Integer Programming"
August, 6th 2018 : Institute of Mathematics, Technische Universität Ilmenau, "An Active Set Algorithm for Robust Combinatorial Optimization Based on Separation Oracles"
March, 20th 2018 : Dipartimento di Matematica Guido Castelnuovo, Sapienza Università di Roma, "Active-set Algorithmic Frameworks for Sparse Optimization"
February, 20th 2018 : Faculty of Mathematics, Technische Universität Dortmund, "Active Set Frank-Wolfe Variants for Minimization over the Simplex"
Editorial activity:
Dal 2022: Associate Editor for OR Spectrum (Optimization)
Reviewer for the following journals: 4OR, Computational Optimization and Applications, European Journal of Operations Research, INFORMS Journal on Computing, Journal of Global Optimization, Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications, Mathematical Methods of Operations Research, Mathematical Programming Computation, Optimization Methods and Software, Optimization Letters, Operations Research Letters, SIAM Journal on Optimization.
Conferences and Workshops:
4-7 September 2023 - ODS 2023, Ischia, Italia - "On necessary optimality conditions for sets of points in multiobjective optimization"
3-7 July 2023 - Learning from Both Sides Linear and Nonlinear Mixed-Integer Optimization, Institut Mittag-Leffler, Djursholm, Sweden (invited) - "Using Dual Relaxations in Multiobjective Mixed-Integer Quadratic Programming"
30 August - 2 September 2022 - ODS 2022, Firenze, Italia (in the session I organized) - "Designing sustainable diet plans by solving a tri-objective 0-1 linear program"
29-30 July 2022 - EUROPT 2022, Caparica, Portugal - "Sequential penalty methods for mixed integer programs"
23-26 May 2022 - MIP 2022 - Mixed Integer Programming Workshop 2022, New Brunswick, NJ (USA) (invited) - "Sequential penalty methods for mixed integer programs"
24-27 October 2021 - 2021 INFORMS Annual Meeting, Anaheim, CA (USA) - (attended Online) - "Minimization Over The L1-ball Using An Active-set Non-monotone Projected Gradient"
23 September 2021 - RAMOO 2021, Wuppertal, Germany (Online) (invited) - "Detecting the efficient set of multiobjective integer quadratic programming problems"
14-17 September 2021 - ODS 2021, Roma, Italia (in the session I organized) - "Detecting the efficient set of multiobjective integer quadratic programming problems"
7-9 July 2021 - EUROPT 2021, Toulouse, France (Online - in the session I co-organized) - "Finding nondominated and efficient solutions of multiobjective quadratic integer programming problems".
4-6 March 2020 - SIGOPT 2020, Dortmund, Germany - "ADMMs for Solving Doubly Nonnegative Programming Problems".
5-8 August 2019 - ICCOPT 2019, Berlin, Germany (invited) - "Augmented Lagrangian Approaches for Solving Doubly Nonnegative Programming Problems".
23-26 June 2019 - EURO 2019, Dublin, Ireland (in the session I organized) - "The Frontier Partitioner Algorithm: a Branch and Cut algorithm for Biobjective Integer Programming".
2-8 June 2019 - Mixed-integer Nonlinear Optimization: a hatchery for modern mathematics, Oberwolfach, Germany (invited) - "An Active Set Algorithm for Robust Combinatorial Optimization".
24-26 September 2018 - First International Conference on Network Medicine and Big Data: The Transformation of Medicine, Rome, Italy - Poster : "Annotation Driven Optimized Clustering for Disease Genes Batch Identification".
10-13 September 2018 - ODS2018, 48th meeting of AIRO - Italian Operations Research Society, Taormina, Italy (invited) - "Using a Factored Dual in Augmented Lagrangian Methods for Semidefinite Programming".
1-6 July 2018 - 23rd International Symposium on Mathematical Programming, Bordeaux, France (invited) - "An Active Set Algorithm for Robust Combinatorial Optimization Based on Separation Oracles".
8-12 January 2018 - 22nd Combinatorial Optimization Workshop, Aussois, France (invited) - "Using a Factored Dual in Augmented Lagrangian Methods for Semidefinite Programming".
22-25 May 2017 - SIAM Conference on Optimization 2017, Vancouver, Canada (invited) - “New active-set Frank-Wolfe variants for minimization over the simplex and the l1-ball”.
4-6 November 2016 - 4th Alpen-Adria-Workshop on Optimization, Klagenfurt, Austria (invited) - “Dual bounds for (mixed) integer quadratic programming problems”.
6-11 August 2016 - ICCOPT 2016, Tokyo, Japan (in the session I organized) - “An Active Set Strategy for Nonlinear Programming Problems with Box Constraints”.
6-8 June 2016 - Cologne Twente workshop 2016, Gargnano, Italy - “Dual approaches for a specific class of integer nonlinear programming problems”.
12-17 July 2015 - ISMP 2015, Pittsburgh, U.S.A. (invited) - “A Frank-Wolfe Based Branch-and-Bound Algorithm for Mean-Risk Portfolio Optimization Problems”.
28-30 July 2014 - Optimization 2014, Guimaraes, Portugal (invited) - “A Feasible Active Set Method with Reoptimization for Convex Quadratic Mixed-Integer Programming”
19-22 May 2014 - SIAM Conference on Optimization 2014, San Diego, U.S.A. (invited) -“A Fast Active Set Block Coordinate Descent Algorithm for l1-regularized least squares”.
19-24 August 2012 - ISMP 2012, Berlin, Germany (invited) - “A method for MINLP problems with simple constraints”.
24-27 July 2011 - Optimization 2011, Caparica, Portugal - “Continuous Approaches for Mixed 0-1 Programming Problems”.
14-16 June 2011 - 10-th Cologne Twente workshop, Frascati, Italy - “A New Feasibility Pump-Like Heuristic for Mixed Integer Problems”.
16-19 May 2011 - SIAM Conference on Optimization, Darmstadt, Germany - “A New Feasibility Pump-Like Heuristic for Mixed Integer Problems”.
7 - 10 September 2010 - AIRO 2010, Reggio Calabria, Italy - “New concave penalty functions for improving the Feasibility Pump”.
11 - 15 July 2010 - EURO 2010, Lisbon, Portugal - “New concave penalty functions for improving the Feasibility Pump”.
2 - 9 July 2010 - International school of Mathematics “G.Stampacchia” in Erice, Italy - “A Newton-Type feasible method for large scale minimization problems with bound constraints”.
8 - 11 September 2009 - AIRO 2009, Siena, Italy - “A Newton-Type feasible method for large scale minimization problems with bound constraints”.
Languages:
Italian: native language.
English: good knowledge.
French: good knowledge.
German: B1 - Telc certificate (points 274.5/300)
I miei interessi di ricerca si concentrano sulla programmazione mista intera nonlineare, la programmazione nonlineare a grande dimensione e la programmazione multiobiettivo.
Legenda
Marianna De Santis was born in Florence on December 28, 1982.
She graduated in Mathematics in 2007 (with a grade of 110/110 cum laude) from Sapienza University of Rome.In June 2012, she obtained a Ph.D. in Operations Research from Sapienza University of Rome.
From January 2012 to January 2013, she worked as a research fellow at the Institute of Systems Analysis and Computer Science of the National Research Council (CNR).From September 2013 to February 2016, she worked in the Discrete Optimization group at the Faculty of Mathematics of the Technical University of Dortmund (Germany).From March to September 2016, she worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Mathematics of the Alpen-Adria University of Klagenfurt (Austria).From September 2016 to March 2017, she worked as a research fellow at the Department of Mathematics, University of Padua.
From March 31, 2017, to March 30, 2020, she was a fixed-term researcher (RTDb) at the DIAG, Department of Computer, Control, and Management Engineering at Sapienza University of Rome.In May 2019, she obtained the National Scientific Qualification to hold the position of Associate Professor (second tier) in the scientific-disciplinary sector MAT/09 (Operations Research).
From March 31, 2020, to January 31, 2024, she was an Associate Professor (MAT/09) at the DIAG, Department of Computer, Control, and Management Engineering at Sapienza University of Rome.
Since February 1, 2024, she has been an Associate Professor (MAT/09) at the DINFO, Department of Information Engineering at the University of Florence.
Her research interests focus on mixed-integer nonlinear programming, large-scale nonlinear programming, and multi-objective programming.
Working Experiences:
1 February 2024 - : Associate Professor - DINFO, Università di Firenze, Italy
31 March 2020 - 31 January 2024 : Associate Professor - DIAG, Sapienza, Università di Roma, Italy
31 March 2017 - 30 March 2020: RTDB (Assistant Professor) - Dipartimento di ingegneria informatica automatica e gestionale (DIAG), Sapienza, Università di Roma, Italy
September 2016 - March 2017: Post-doc - Dipartimento di Matematica, Università di Padova, Italy
March 2016 - September 2016: Post-doc - Institut für Mathematik, Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Austria
September 2013 - March 2016: Post-doc - Discrete Optimization group, Fakultät für Mathematik, Technische Universität Dortmund, Germany
January 2012 - January 2013: Post-doc at “Istituto di Analisi dei Sistemi ed Informatica”, IASI, National Research Council (CNR), Rome, Italy
Education:
Title of Thesis: Continuous approaches to mixed integer programming problems; Advisor: Prof. Stefano Lucidi
October 24th, 2007: Master degree in Applied Mathematics, Sapienza University of Rome
Final grade: 110/110 cum laude
Title of Thesis: Alcuni algoritmi per il filtraggio nonlineare (Some algorithms for nonlinear filtering); Advisor: Prof. Maurizio Falcone
February 25th, 2005: Bachelor degree in Mathematics, Sapienza University of Rome.
Final grade: 110/110;
Title of Thesis: Costruzioni di frattali tramite IFS (Fractals construction by iterated functions systems); Advisor: Prof. Luigi Orsina
October 2003 - March 2004: Erasmus European Union Program, Université Pierre et Marie Curie - 6th University of Paris.
Publications (see also my Google Scholar Profile):
Articles published in refereed journals:
Dissertation:
Others:
Principal Investigator of the research project "Augmented Lagrangian approaches for Large Scale Semidefinite Programming", Progetti di Ricerca (Progetti Medi) 2020 - Sapienza University of Rome
Principal Investigator of the research project "Exact Approaches for Solving Multiobjective Integer Optimization Problem", Progetti di Ricerca (Progetti Piccoli) 2018 - Sapienza University of Rome
Principal Investigator of the research project "Nonlinear Approaches for the Solution of Hard Optimization Problems with Integer Variables", Progetti di Ricerca (Progetti Piccoli) 2017 - Sapienza University of Rome
Teaching Activities:
From 2024/2025 : Teacher of "Tecniche di Ottimizzazione e Data Science per la Bioingegneria" (6CFU) - Bachelor of Science in Bioengineering, Università degli studi di Firenze, Italy
Winter semester 2023/2024: Teacher of “Ricerca Operativa”(6CFU) - Bachelor of Science in Computer Science Engineering - Sapienza, Università di Roma (sede di Latina), Italy
Winter semester 2023/2024: Teacher of “Ottimizzazione”(6CFU) - Bachelor of Science in Computer Science Engineering - Sapienza, Università di Roma (sede di Latina), Italy
Summer semester 2021/2022 and 2022/2023: Teacher of "Ottimizzazione dei sistemi complessi" (6CFU)- Master of Science in Management Engineering - Sapienza, Università di Roma, Italy
May 2021 : Lectures "Introduction to Semidefinite Programming" - ABRO PhD program - Dipartimento di ingegneria informatica automatica e gestionale - Sapienza, Università di Roma
Winter semester 2020/2021: Teacher of "Analisi Matematica 2" (6CFU)- Bachelor of Science in Management Engineering - Sapienza, Università di Roma, Italy
From 2017/2018 - until 2022/2023: Teacher of “Ricerca Operativa” (Operations Research) (12CFU) - Bachelor of Science in Management Engineering - Sapienza, Università di Roma, Italy
Visits to other research institutes:
February, 24 - 26 2020: Department of Mathematics, Trier University, Germany (invited by Prof. Martin Schmidt)
March, 11th 2025: ESSEC, Business School Paris Cergy, "Challenges in solving multiobjective mixed integer nonlinear programming: computation of efficient integer assignments and enclosures"
Since 2022: Associate Editor for OR Spectrum (Optimization)
My research interests focus on mixed-integer nonlinear programming, large-scale nonlinear programming, and multi-objective programming.
