About me
I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Mathematics at the London School of Economics and Political Science. I have been awarded a VIDI grant, a TOP grant, and a VENI grant (now completed) by the NWO (the Dutch Organization for Scientific Research).
I previously held a faculty position at the Department of Econometrics & Operations Research at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, with a part-time position at CWI. 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.
News
- I recently co-organised the followup workshop to our Trimester Programme on Discrete Optimization at the Hausdorff Institute for Mathematics in Bonn.
- Our paper “Nonuniform graph partitioning with just a little flex” (joint with Harald Räcke and Stefan Schmid) was accepted to STOC 2026.
- Our paper “Stochastic Load Balancing with Machine Reservations” (joint with David Aleman Espinosa, Naveen Garg, Sharat Ibrahimpur and Chaitanya Swamy) was accepted to IPCO 2026.
Positions
Education
Research funding
Students
- Yang Yang (2025 – )
- Karl Stickler (2021 – 2023 – MPhil) → Amazon Luxembourg
- Dario Frascaria (2016 – 2021) → Bayer
- Madelon de Kemp (2016 – 2020); co-supervised with Michel Mandjes → ABN AMRO
- Thomas Bosman (2015 – 2019); co-supervised with Leen Stougie → Booking.com
Postdocs
- Franziska Eberle (2021 – 2023) → Junior Profesor, TU Berlin
- Sharat Ibrahimpur (2022 – 2024) → University of Bonn → ETH Zurich
Collaborators
Louigi Addario-Berry, David Alemán Espinosa, Omid Amini, Igor Barashenkov, Coulter Beeson, Sander Borst, Thomas Bosman, Richard Cole, Roberto Cominetti, José Correa, Daniel Dadush, Luc Devroye, Babak Farzad, Andreas Feldmann, Aleksander Figiel, Dario Frascaria, Naveen Garg, Vasilis Gkatzelis, Michel Goemans, Navin Goyal, Simon Griffiths, Cristóbal Guzmán, Nick Harvey, Sharat Ibrahimpur, Madelon de Kemp, Marcos Kiwi, Nathan Klein, Zhuan Khye Koh, Janne Korhonen, Jochen Könemann, André Linhares, Michel Mandjes, Vahab Mirrokni, Bento Natura, Kanstantsin Pashkovich, Kirk Pruhs, R. Ravi, Thomas Rothvoß, Harald Räcke, Laura Sanità, Frans Schalekamp, Kevin Schewior, Stefan Schmid, Leon Sering, Bruce Shepherd, Makrand Sinha, René Sitters, Suzanne van der Ster, Leen Stougie, Chaitanya Swamy, Laura Vargas Koch, Alberto Vera, Erik Verhoef, Adrian Vetta, Jens Vygen, László Végh, Zi Song Yeoh, Rico Zenklusen, Anke van Zuylen.