Articles & Notes

Article August 27, 2025

Sunshine, Smog, and Smart Choices: A Friendly Intro to Predict-then-Optimize

How prediction errors can turn 'optimal' transport plans into fragile ones

The idea of using mathematics to helps us make smarter and more efficient choices, is definitely fascinating to me. Recently, I tried to play with a simple yet...

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Article August 24, 2025

Coffee, Choices, and Constraints: A Friendly Intro to Linear Programming

A practical guide to solving optimization problems with linear programming

When getting introduced to operations research, the first encounter with linear programming gives a sense of the powerful tools at our disposal. It’s like discovering a compass that...

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Article August 21, 2025

The Secret Map to Better Decisions: My Love Affair with Operations Research

From bakery optimization to life-changing math

Finding my way into OR

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Project April 15, 2025

Panorama: bringing the right grant to the right researcher

Internal track record + external grant landscape, matched by AI so researchers stop hunting and start applying

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Project June 15, 2024

Truck loading that saves €1M and 1,000 t of CO₂ a year

An algorithm built inside Italmondo, with guaranteed-safe loads that no commercial packing tool can match

The full algorithmic story (constructive heuristic, preprocessing, dual bounds, evaluation against manual and commercial baselines) is described in the peer-reviewed paper. See the publication page for the abstract...

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Project September 1, 2023

Rebuilding a university timetable for a bilingual reform

From a curriculum change nobody knew how to schedule to a timetable UNIL put into production

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