Post-Docs

Federico Battista is a postdoctoral researcher at Lehigh University's Department of Industrial and System Engineering (ISE). He holds a Ph.D. in Operations Research from the University of Rome "Sapienza". He earned his M.S. and B.S. in Computer Science from the University of L'Aquila (Italy). He is a member of the Computational Optimization Research at the Lehigh (COR@L) group.
His research interests are in Mixed-Integer Bilevel Optimization (MIBLP) algorithms and software development, as well as Semidefinite Programming (SDP) algorithms and their application in Combinatorial Optimization.

Tommaso Giovannelli is a postdoctoral researcher at Lehigh's Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering. Tommaso received his Ph.D. in Operations Research in May 2021 from Sapienza University of Rome, where he obtained his BSc and MSc in Management Engineering in 2015 and 2017, respectively. From January 2020 to May 2021 he stayed at Lehigh ISE as a visiting scholar. Tommaso's research and teaching interests lie in the fields of nonlinear optimization, derivative-free optimization, and simulation-based optimization. His research work spans various application domains, with a focus on machine learning, transportation systems, and healthcare operations. He won a doctoral award from the EURO Working Group on Operational Research Applied to Health Services (ORAHS) of the International Federation of Operational Research Societies (IFORS) at the Doctoral Consortium ORAHS 2019, Karlsruhe, for his research proposal titled A simulation-based optimization approach for the improvement of the emergency department management. Tommaso has been actively contributing to the academic community by serving on the local organizing committee for ICCOPT 2022 and chairing the organizing committee for the MOPTA 2023 conference.

Xin Jiang is a postdoctoral researcher at the Industrial and Systems Engineering Department, Lehigh University. He is also affiliated with the Program in the Foundations and Applications of Mathematical Optimization and Data Science (MODS). Xin received his Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in June 2022, where he was advised by Lieven Vandenberghe. He obtained his Bachelor's Degree in Electronic and Communication Engineering at the University of Hong Kong in 2015, and an M.S. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering at UCLA in 2017. Xin's research interests broadly include theory and algorithms for optimization, especially semidefinite programming. He designs, analyzes, and implements efficient and scalable optimization algorithms for various applications from engineering, machine learning, and data science.

Nimita is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Lehigh University since June 2023. Nimita received her Ph.D. in 2022 jointly from Indian Institute of Technology Bombay and Monash University where she was advised by Prof. Vishnu Narayanan and Dr. James Saunderson. She was a postdoctoral fellow at ICERM, Brown University from September 2022 to May 2023. Nimita is broadly interested in memory-efficient techniques as applied to large-scale convex optimization problems, integer and combinatorial optimization, and non-smooth optimization.
Ph.D. Students
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