Paper "On the Approximability of Train Routing and the Min-Max Disjoint Paths Problem" accepted at ESA 2025
Paper "Decomposition of Probability Marginals for Security Games in Max-Flow/Min-Cut Systems" published in Mathematical Programming
Follow-up paper appeared at IPCO 2024
Recipient of the 2024 Meritorious Service Reward from the journal Operations Research
Co-chairing the program committee of WAOA 2025
Led or participated in multiple research projects, including:
- KU Leuven C1 project "Designing resilient and recoverable infrastructures via multi-level and multi-stage optimization" (since 2022)
- FWO project "Optimization and analytics for stochastic and robust project scheduling" (since 2020, with Erik Demeulemeester)
- KU Leuven start-up grant "Efficient Performance Analytics for Large-Scale Logistics Networks" (2019–2023)
- DFG grant "Models and Algorithms for Multi-Level Congestion and Security Problems" (2019–2023, with Tobias Harks)
- DAAD P.R.I.M.E. fellowship "New Challenges in Network Design" (2014–2016)
- CELSA project "Rigidity and Flexibility: Structures and Algorithms" (starting 2025, with Kristóf Bérczi et al.)
Supervised multiple PhD students and postdocs, including Fei Wu and Yanfei Chen (some co-advised with Erik Demeulemeester et al.)
Background
Research at the intersection of discrete mathematics, theoretical computer science, and operations research
Interests include: combinatorial optimization, design and analysis of algorithms, game theory and social choice, robustness and uncertainty, applications in production and logistics
Associate Professor of Operations Management at KU Leuven since 2019
Affiliated with the Department of Decision Sciences and Information Management
Member of KU Leuven Institute for Artificial Intelligence (Leuven.AI) and KU Leuven Institute for Mobility (LIM)
Miscellany
Invited talk at FRICO 2025
Participated in the 17th Emléktábla Workshop
Attended Dagstuhl Seminar on Approximation Algorithms for Stochastic Optimization
Participated in Santiago Summer Workshop on Combinatorial Optimization 2025
Gave a focus lecture on Robust Flows and Interdiction Games at the 27th Aussois Combinatorial Optimization Workshop
Associate Editor for the journal Omega - The International Journal of Management Science