PhD Student in Information Engineering, Department of Information Engineering (DINFO), University of Florence.
My research interests are optimization techniques and humanitarian logistics applications. My current work focuses on optimization under uncertainty, both stochastic programming (Benders decomposition and the K-adaptability approach for two-stage stochastic programs) and robust optimization.
Publications
Preprints
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Efficient globalization of heavy-ball type methods for unconstrained optimization based on curve searches.
F. Donnini, M. Lapucci, P. Mansueto.
ArXiv pre-print (2025). DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2505.19705 -
K-adaptability for two-stage stochastic optimization.
F. Donnini, M. De Santis, J. Kurtz.
Optimization Online pre-print (2025). DOI: optimization-online.org/?p=32681 -
Heuristics for two-stage stochastic K-adaptability.
M. De Santis, F. Donnini.
Optimization Online pre-print (2026). DOI: optimization-online.org/?p=33450
Talks
- AIROYoung Workshop 2026, Padova — Heuristics for two-stage stochastic 𝐾-adaptability
- EUROYoung Workshop 2025, Naples — On K-adaptability for two-stage stochastic programs
- ODS 2025, Milan — A partition-based method for K-adaptability in two-stage stochastic optimization
Software
- cs_hb v1.0.0 — github.com/dfede3/cs_hb
Contacts
Via di Santa Marta, 3 – 50139 Firenze (FI), Italy
E-mail: federica dot donnini at unifi dot it