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FRANCESCO RINALDI

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Position

Professore Ordinario

Address

VIA TRIESTE, 63 - TORRE ARCHIMEDE - PADOVA

Telephone

0498271322

Current position: Full Professor - Department of Mathematics - University of Padua

RESEARCH INTERESTS

- Nonlinear programming: Study and development of algorithms for large-scale unconstrained and constrained nonlinear programming problems.
- Mixed Integer Nonlinear Programming: Study and development of algorithms for mixed integer nonlinear. programming problems (e.g. derivative-free algorithms).
Study of continuous reformulations of integer nonlinear programming problems.
- Global Optimization: Development of new approaches for constrained global optimization (e.g. exact penalty approaches).
- Machine Learning and Feature Selection: Development of optimization methods for Machine Learning and Feature Selection.
- Applications: Applications in Medicine, Biology, Telecommunications, Engineering and Economics.



EDUCATION

- March 2005: Master Degree in Computer Engineering (summa cum laude) at Sapienza University of Rome. Thesis title: \Neural Networks and SVMs for postal envelopes classification".
- June 2007: Licensed Professional Engineer
- May 2009: Ph.D. in Operations Research at Sapienza University of Rome. Thesis title: \Mathematical Programming Methods for minimizing the zero norm over polyhedral sets".

WORK EXPERIENCE
- April 2022-Now: Full Professor at Department of Mathematics, University of Padu
- September 2015-March 2022 : Associate Professor at Department of Mathematics, University of Padua
- May 2012-September 2015: Assistant Professor at Department of Mathematics, University of Padua
- May 2009-May 2012: Post doctoral Fellow at Department of Computer and System Sciences, Sapienza University of Rome
- November 2008-April 2009: Contract Researcher at Department of Computer and System Sciences, Sapienza University of Rome - APICE project. Main Activity: Development of machine learning-based methods for path loss prediction in urban environment.
- January 2008-June 2008: Contract Researcher at IASI, CNR, Rome - ADONET project. Main Activity: Development of nonlinear optimization algorithms.
- January 2006-June 2006: Visiting Scholar at Computer Science Department, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island. Hosted by Prof. F. P. Preparata
- January 2006-March 2006: Contract Researcher at IASI, CNR, Rome - Marie Curie Research Training Network/ADONET project. Main Activity: Development of a software for protein analysis.
- July 2005-October 2005: Contract Researcher at IASI, CNR, Rome - HEARTS project. Main Activity: Use of neural networks for ECG analysis.

Publications
53 Publications on international journals (e.g., SIAM Journal on Optimization, Mathematical Programming C, Computational Optimization and Applications, Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications, Bioinformatics, IEEE).

Notices

Office hours

  • Tuesday from 14:00 to 15:00
    at Dipartimento di Matematica "Tullio Levi-Civita"

Teachings