CARLA MICHINI Curriculum Vitae Contact ... - IFOR - ETH Zürich
CARLA MICHINI Curriculum Vitae Contact ... - IFOR - ETH Zürich
CARLA MICHINI Curriculum Vitae Contact ... - IFOR - ETH Zürich
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<strong>Contact</strong> Information<br />
<strong>CARLA</strong> <strong>MICHINI</strong><br />
<strong>Curriculum</strong> <strong>Vitae</strong><br />
Address: <strong>IFOR</strong>, D-MATH, HG G 21.2, Rämistrasse 101, 8092 <strong>Zürich</strong>, Switzerland<br />
Phone: +41 44 632 8225<br />
Fax: +41 44 632 1025<br />
Homepage: http://www.ifor.math.ethz.ch/ michinic<br />
E-mail: carla.michini@ifor.math.ethz.ch<br />
Research Interests<br />
• Combinatorial Optimization.<br />
• Integer Programming.<br />
• Polyhedral Combinatorics.<br />
• Machine Learning and Data Mining.<br />
Education<br />
• June 2012: Visiting researcher at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, invited by Prof. Leen<br />
Stougie.<br />
• June 2012: Ph.D. in Operations Research, Sapienza University of Rome.<br />
Thesis: The Stable Set Problem: Some Structural Properties and Relaxations<br />
Advisor: Prof. Antonio Sassano<br />
• January 2, 2011 - July 10, 2011: Visiting Scholar at Tepper School of Business, Carnegie<br />
Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA. Invited by Prof. Gérard Cornuéjols.<br />
• December 2007: Master degree in Management Engineering, Sapienza University of Rome.<br />
Final grade: 110/110 cum laude<br />
Thesis: Lagrangian Relaxation to solve the training problem of zero-norm Support<br />
Vector Machines.<br />
Advisor: Prof. Antonio Sassano<br />
• October 2005: Bachelor degree in Management Engineering, Sapienza University of Rome.<br />
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Final grade: 110/110 cum laude<br />
Thesis: Data Mining Methods for Direct Marketing.<br />
Advisor: Prof. Antonio Sassano<br />
• July 2002: Secondary school diploma, Liceo Saffo, Roseto degli Abruzzi<br />
Courses<br />
Final grade: 100/100<br />
• March - May 2011. Advanced Integer Programming, Tepper School of Business, Carnegie<br />
Mellon University, Pittsburgh. Lecturer: Egon Balas.<br />
• January - March 2011. Integer Programming, Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon<br />
University, Pittsburgh. Lecturer: Egon Balas.<br />
• April - May 2010. Semidefinite Programming, Department of Computer and Systems<br />
Science “Antonio Ruberti”, Rome. Lecturer: Veronica Piccialli.<br />
• April - May 2010. Global Optimization, Department of Computer and Systems Science<br />
“Antonio Ruberti”, Rome. Lecturer: Francesco Lampariello.<br />
• February 2010. Polyhedral Combinatorics. Dipartimento di Sistemi e Informatica, Florence.<br />
Lecturer: Giovanni Rinaldi.<br />
• September - October 2009. Summer School Combinatorial Optimization at Work, Zuse<br />
Institut Berlin. Main lecturers: Martin Grötschel, Bob Bixby.<br />
• May 2009. Short course on Semidefinite Programming, Department of Computer and<br />
Systems Science “Antonio Ruberti”, Rome. Lecturer: Sam Burer.<br />
Conferences<br />
• October 4-9, 2012. 1st NPlast Annual Conference. Magdeburg, Germany.<br />
• August 19-24, 2012. ISMP 2012, 21th International Symposium on Mathematical Programming.<br />
Berlin, Germany.<br />
• January 9-13, 2012. Aussois 2012, The 16th Combinatorial Optimization Workshop. Centre<br />
Paul Langevin, Aussois, France.<br />
• June 20-23, 2011. MIP 2011, Mixed Integer Programming Workshop, University of Waterloo.<br />
• June 15-17, 2011. IPCO 2011, 15th Conference on Integer programming and Combinatorial<br />
Optimization, IBM Learning Center in Armonk, New York, USA.<br />
• May 21-24, 2009. ICFCA 2009, 7th International Conference on Formal Concept Analysis.<br />
Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences.<br />
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• April 28-30, 2008. SGM@BiCi: Search Goes Mobile. Bertinoro, Italy.<br />
Professional Experience<br />
• September 2012 - : postdoctoral researcher at Institute for Operations Research (<strong>IFOR</strong>),<br />
Department of Mathematics, <strong>ETH</strong>Z.<br />
Marie Curie fellowship in the context of the european project NPlast.<br />
• March 2008 - October 2008: Fondazione Ugo Bordoni.<br />
Research Appointment for the project “Data Mining Techniques to Profile TV Users”.<br />
• February 2009 - January 2010: Fondazione Ugo Bordoni.<br />
Certifications<br />
Research Appointment for the project “A new inter-document similarity measure with<br />
application to SVM text classication”.<br />
• January 2010. TOEFL iBT. Score: 100/120.<br />
• October 2009. Certificate of successful participation to the course “Combinatorial Optimization<br />
at Work”, Zuse Institut Berlin. (10 ECTS points).<br />
• January 2009. Engineering licence.<br />
Computer Skills<br />
• Operating Systems: MacOS X, Linux, Windows.<br />
• Programming Language: C, C++, Java.<br />
• Computational Software: Cplex, Matlab, AMPL, ZIMPL, SCIP.<br />
Language Skills<br />
• Italian (mother tongue).<br />
• English (fluent).<br />
• French (good).<br />
• German (basic school knowledge).<br />
Talks<br />
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• Representations of Associations and Implications for Synaptic Signaling Networks, 1st<br />
NPlast Annual Conference, October 4-9, 2012, Magdeburg, Germany.<br />
• How Tight Is the Corner Relaxation? Insights gained from the Stable Set Problem, 21th<br />
International Symposium on Mathematical Programming, invited by Prof. Quentin Louveaux,<br />
August 19-24, 2012, Berlin, Germany.<br />
• The Hirsch Conjecture for the Fractional Stable Set Polytope, CWI, invited by Prof. Leen<br />
Stougie, June 12, 2012, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.<br />
• Vertex Adjacency and the Hirsch Conjecture for the Fractional Stable Set Polytope, <strong>ETH</strong><br />
<strong>Zürich</strong>, invited by Prof. Robert Weismantel, May 14, 2012, <strong>Zürich</strong>, Switzerland.<br />
• Vertex Adjacency and the Hirsch Conjecture for the Fractional Stable Set Polytope, 15th<br />
Combinatorial Optimization Workshop, January 9-13, 2012, Aussois, France.<br />
• The Stable Set Problem: Some Structural Properties and Relaxations, December 2, 2011,<br />
Department of Statistical Sciences, Rome, Italy.<br />
• Set Covering e Max FS: Sviluppi teorici e qualche applicazione, December 16, 2010, Fondazione<br />
Ugo Bordoni, Rome, Italy.<br />
• Applicazioni della Ricerca Operativa al Data Mining e all’Information Retrieval, December<br />
10, 2009, Fondazione Ugo Bordoni, Rome, Italy.<br />
• A Concept Lattice-Based Kernel for SVM Text Classification, 7th International Conference<br />
on Formal Concept Analysis, May 21-24, 2009, Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences,<br />
Germany.<br />
• Heuristics for Mixed Integer 0-1 Programming, Department of Computer and Systems<br />
Science “Antonio Ruberti”, January 28, 2009, Rome.<br />
Publications<br />
• A. Sassano and C. Michini. The Hirsch Conjecture for the Fractional Stable Set Polytope,<br />
June 2012, submitted for publication.<br />
• G. Cornuéjols, C. Michini and G. Nannicini. How Tight is the Corner Relaxation?<br />
Insights Gained from the Stable Set Problem, Discrete Optimization 9 (2012), pp. 109-121.<br />
• C. Carpineto, C. Michini, R. Nicolussi. A Concept Lattice-Based Kernel for SVM<br />
Text Classification. In Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Formal Concept<br />
Analysis (ICFCA 2009), pp.237-250, Darmstadt, Germany, 2009.<br />
Teaching<br />
• Fall 2012: teaching assistant for the course System Modeling and Optimization, <strong>ETH</strong><br />
<strong>Zürich</strong>.<br />
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