2023 INFORMS Optimization Society, Egon Balas Prize; 2023 INFORMS Computing Society, INFORMS Computing Society Prize; 2017 INFORMS Optimization Society, Young Researchers Prize; 2013 IBM Research, Herman Goldstine Memorial Postdoctoral Fellowship; 2000 Istituto Nazionale di Alta Matematica (INdAM), Scholarship. Published multiple papers including 'A knowledge compilation take on binary polynomial optimization' and 'Aggregation of continuous preferences in one dimension'.
Research Experience
Postdoctoral positions with Robert Weismantel at the Institute for Mathematical Optimization at Otto von Guericke University and later at the Institute for Operations Research at ETH Zürich (2009-2013). Joined the Mathematical Programming group at IBM Research as a Goldstine Fellow in 2013. Faculty member at the University of Wisconsin–Madison since 2014.
Education
PhD in Mathematics from the University of Padova in 2009, supervised by Giacomo Zambelli; MS from the University of Padova in 2005; BS from the University of Padova in 2004.
Background
Research Interests: Mathematical optimization, Discrete mathematics, Mathematics of data science. Brief Introduction: Alberto Del Pia is an Associate Professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where he has been a faculty member since 2014 and received tenure in 2020.