Prof. Dr. Rico Zenklusen
Prof. Dr. Rico Zenklusen
Full Professor at the Department of Mathematics
Deputy head of Institute for Operations Research
Brief bio
Before joining ETH Zurich, I held a faculty position at the Johns Hopkins University in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics. Prior to joining Hopkins, I spent several years as a postdoc at MIT and did a short postdoctoral stay at EPFL. I hold a master's degree in Mathematics from EPFL and a PhD from the Department of Mathematics at ETH Zurich.
Grant acknowledgments
I gratefully acknowledge the support from the ERC through my ERC Consolidator Grant ICOPT and from the Swiss National Science Foundation.
Research interests
I am interested in a wide range of problems within Combinatorial Optimization and its numerous applications. A main focus of the reserach done in my team is the design of fast algorithms for complex (mathematical) optimization problems by leveraging a variety of techniques and combinatorial structures, like matroids, submodular functions, and polyhedral methods. I also enjoy working on problems in various related fields such as Theoretical Computer Science and Graph Theory, and I have a broad interest in models and applications in Operations Research.
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