Research

I achieved the National Scientific qualification as associate professor in the Italian higher education system for the disciplinary field of 01/A6 - Operations Research. Validity: 23/05/2023 - 23/05/2034.

March 2021 - Present Researcher in the Group of Computational Optimization at the Department of Mathematics "Felice Casorati", University of Pavia (head of the scientific unit Prof. Stefano Gualandi). 

• From February 2024 as a Tenure-Track researcher (RTDb); involved in research projects with the following health service providers:

  • Radiology Department - Policlinico San Matteo di Pavia: Designing of Machine Learning based Optimization models and methods for the CT scan scheduling;

  • General Surgery Department - Policlinico San Matteo di Pavia: Learning survival models to represent mortality after major traumas;

  • Hospital Medical Management - Policlinico San Matteo di Pavia: Development of a multi-criteria programming model for the operating theater management under uncertainty;

  • Vascular Surgery Department - Città della Salute e della Scienza di Torino: Decision-focused learning of surgical case durations;

  • 3D4Med: Development of a scheduler for in-hospital production of 3D-printed devices for medical use.

Member of the IT Committee and the LM+ Committee.

• March 2021 - January 2024 as a Junior Tenure-Track researcher (RTDa); involved in research projects with the following institutes and companies:

  • Joint Research Center of European Commission - Siviglia (JRC-SVQ): Development of a multimodal schedule-based route planner for accessibility analyses at the European scale;

  • Fedegari Autoclavi SpA: Interpretable Machine Learning techniques for troubleshooting autoclaves.

• From 20/09/2023 to 6/10/2023 as a visiting researcher at the Department of Computer Science of KU Leuven, Leuven (Belgium), as a guest of Prof. Tias Guns.

May 2014 - December 2020: Research Fellow in the Group of Operations Research and Combinatorial Optimization at the Department of Computer Science, University of Turin (supervisor Prof. Roberto Aringhieri):

• July 2018 - December 2020 as  a post-doc researcher ("assegnista di ricerca") for the project "Big data supporting Emergency Care imprOveMEnt (BECOME)" funded by Fondazione CRT (non-profit organization) and coordinated by Prof. Roberto Aringhieri;

• November 2017 - June 2018 as a research fellow ("borsista di ricerca") for the project "Online optimization methods applied to urgent and emergency health systems" self-funded by the Department of Computer Science of the University of Turin, within the research project "Fundamentals, Methodologies and Applications of Informatics - Models and Algorithms to Support Decisions (MALGRADO)" coordinated by Prof. Luca Console;

• November 2014 - October 2018 as Ph.D candidate in Computer Science with the thesis project "Online optimization methods applied to the management of health services"; in this period I started a project in collaboration with the Emergency Department of Ospedale "Sant'Antonio Abate" di Cantù;

• May 2014 - October 2014 as a research fellow ("borsista di ricerca") for the project "Clinical Pathways: New Patient-Centered Organizational and Management Models" funded by MIUR (Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research) under the national program "FIRB - Futuro e Ricerca 2008" coordinated by Prof. Elena Tànfani;

• Visiting student at the HEC Montréal, Département des sciences de la décision of CIRRELT, in Montreal (Canada), as a guest of Prof. Patrick Soriano from 13/07/2015 to 24/07/2015.