I am an assistant professor in the Department of Econometrics and Operations Research at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, where I am part of the Operations Research group. I am also affiliated with CWI. I have been awarded a TOP grant and a VENI grant (now completed) by the NWO (the Dutch Organization for Scientific Research).

Before this, I spent three years an Applied Mathematics Instructor at MIT, under the mentorship of Michel Goemans. I was a PhD student in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at McGill University, in Montreal, Canada, advised by Bruce Shepherd and Adrian Vetta. My undergraduate education was at the University of Cape Town, South Africa.

I work primarily in combinatorial optimization, with excursions into game theory and probability. See the research and publications sections of this homepage for more.

### Positions

• present2013

#### Assistant Professor

Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam & CWI

• 20132010

MIT

### Education

• PhD 2010

PhD in Applied Mathematics

McGill University

• MSc 2006

Masters in Applied Mathematics

McGill University

• BSc (Hons) 2004

Bachelors degree, majoring in Mathematics, Computer Science and Physics

University of Cape Town

### Grants

• 2016
NWO TOP grant
Awarded by the NWO (Dutch Science Foundation), this grant funds a PhD position.
• 2013 - 2016
NWO VENI grant - Robustness and connectivity in network design
A very competitive personal grant awarded by the NWO (Dutch Science Foundation) to pursue fundamental research.
• 2011 - 2014
NSF grant New Approaches to Fundamental Problems in Network Design
I was a co-PI of this grant, along with Michel Goemans and Rico Zenklusen.