Curriculum  vitae  of 

 

 

 

 

Address

 

CV:                  www.dei.unipd.it/~fisch

reports:             www.dei.unipd.it/~fisch/papers

slides:               www.dei.unipd.it/~fisch/papers/slides

teaching:           www.dei.unipd.it/~fisch/ricop

dissertations:     www.dei.unipd.it/~fisch/ricop/tesi

 

H-index :     Google Scholar

 

 

 

 

Personal

 

Born in 1958. Italian. Married. One daughter.

 

 

     Education

 

University of Bologna, “Laurea in Ingegneria Elettronica” 100/100 cum laude (1982)

 

University of Bologna, PhD degree “Dottorato di Ricerca in Ingegneria dei Sistemi” (1987)

 

Professional Experience

 

Assistant Professor in “Operations Research” Dipartimento di Elettronica, Informatica e Sistemistica, University of Bologna (1990-1992)

 

Associate Professor in “Operations Research” Dipartimento di Elettronica ed Informatica, University of Padova (1992-1994)

 

Full Professor in “Operations Research” Dipartimento di Ingegneria Elettrica, University of L’Aquila  (1994-1995), Dipartimento di Matematica ed Informatica, University of Udine (1995-1997), and Dipartimento di Elettronica ed Informatica, University of Padova (1997-)

 

Research Interests

 

Mixed Integer Programming, Railway Optimization, Combinatorial Optimization, Vehicle Routing and Scheduling Problems, Polyhedral Combinatorics.

 

Professional Activities

 

Member of the Editorial Board of the international journals  “Mathematical Programming Computation, Journal of Combinatorial Optimization”, and “4OR”

Plenary speaker at Matheuristic 2012, Angra dos Reis, September 2012

Semiplenary speaker at EURO XXV, Vilnius, July 2012

Plenary speaker at VeRoLog 2012, Bologna, June 2012

Plenary speaker at Mathematical Programming Symposium, Chicago, August 2009

Chair of the international Program Committee for the meeting “Integer Programming and Combinatorial Optimization", 2007

Semiplenary speaker at the Mathematical Programming Symposium, Lausanne, July 1997

Plenary speaker at the EuroGP2005 & EvoCOP2005 meeting, Lausanne, March 2005

Member of the international Program Committee for the meeting “Integer Programming and Combinatorial Optimization” Copenhagen, May 1995

Plenary speaker at the 1st Nordic Optimization Symposium, Copenhagen, April 2006

Semiplenary speaker at the SOR '99 meeting, Magdeburg, September 1999

Chair of the international Program Committee for the meeting ATMOS 2008

Member of the Program Committee for the meeting ATMOS 2007

Invited speaker at the University of Pittsburgh, New York, Augsburg, Berlin, Copenhagen, Tenerife, Milano, Pisa, Torino, Roma, etc.

Member of MOS (the Mathematical Optimization Society) and of AIRO (the Italian Operations Research society)

Consultant for Optimization Problems of World Bank, Ferrovie dello Stato, Agip-Petroli, Sogesta, Ars-Enidata, Rasimelli e Coletti, Sisplan, etc.

Research Projects supported by MURST/MIUR, Italy.

Research Project “Parallel Algorithms for Network Flow Problems” supported by N.A.T.O.

Research Projects “Progetto Finalizzato Trasporti I and II” supported by C.N.R., Italy

Research Project “ALPI” supported by FS-Ferrovie dello Stato, Italy (1993-1996)

Research Project “FASTER” supported by FS-Ferrovie dello Stato, Italy (1994-1997)

Research Project “FARO” supported by FS-Ferrovie dello Stato, Italy (1995-1998)

Research Project “SDC” supported by the Esprit programme, European Union (1995-1997)

Research Project “Europe-TRIS” supported by the Telematics Applications Programme, European Union (1995-1998)

Research Project “Europe-TRIO” supported by the Telematics Applications Programme, European Union (1997-1999)

Research Project “CASC” supported by the European Union (2000-2004)

Research Project “ARRIVAL” supported by the European Union (2005-2008)

 

Prizes

 

 First Prize “Best Young Researcher” awarded by  A.I.R.O. (the Italian Operations Research Society), 1987

 

 First International Prize “Best Ph.D. Dissertation on Transportation” awarded by the Operations Research Society of America (the first prize awarded by O.R.S.A. for a Ph.D. thesis developed outside U.S.A.), 1987

 

 First Prize “FASTER” awarded by FS-Ferrovie dello Stato for the best computer code for solving very large set-covering problems arising in railway scheduling (jointly with A. Caprara and P. Toth), 1994

 

 First Prize “FARO” awarded by FS-Ferrovie dello Stato for the best computer code for solving a bus-driver scheduling problem arising in railway applications (jointly with A. Caprara, P. Toth and D. Vigo), 1995

 

Finalist of  the INFORMS “Daniel H. Wagner Prize for Excellence in Operations Research Practice” with the paper  “Reinventing Crew Scheduling at Netherlands Railways (jointly with Erwin Abbink, Leo Kroon, Gerrit Timmer, and Michiel Vromans), 2004

 

Winner of  the 2008 INFORMS Edelman award (the Oscar for OR practice)  for the entry “The New Dutch Timetable: The O.R. Revolution” (jointly with the Netherlands Railways team: Leo Kroon, Dennis Huisman, Erwin Abbink, Pieter-Jan Fioole, Gabor Maroti, Lex Schrijver, Adri Steenbeek, Roelof Ybema), 2008 [YouTube video]

 

 

 

 

Publications

 

 

[1] M. Fischetti, “Worst-Case Analysis of an Approximation Scheme for the Subset-Sum Problem” Operations Research Letters 6, 283-284, 1986.

 

[2] M. Fischetti, S. Martello, P. Toth, “The Fixed Job Schedule Problem with Spread-Time Constraints” Operations Research 35, 849-858, 1987.

 

[3] M. Fischetti, S. Martello, “Worst-Case Analysis of the Differencing Method for the Partition Problem”  Mathematical Programming A 37, 117-120, 1987.