Professor Emeritus, previously at Department of Information Engineering (DINFO), University of Florence
Adjoint Professor of Linear Algebra at New York University, Florence
(previously: adjoint professor of Operations Management)
My research focused on
- Global Optimization: models, methods applications
- Applications of Operations Research
Publications
For an updated list of publications see my Google Scholar page
Besides papers, I have been the author of a few books. The most recent ones are:
- Optimization Models (2024). Available both as a free on line textbook, as well as a printed hard copy one.
- Global Optimization: Theory, Algorithms and Applications, MOS-SIAM Series on Optimizaiton (2013)
- Fondamenti di Ricerca Operativa, Amazon (2017)
I have also been a co-founder of two startups:
- KKT srl, founded in 2011 as a Startup of the University of Florence, later acquired by Fleetmatics, now part of Verizon Connect
- Intuendi srl, born in 2016, specialized in demand planning for the supply chain