Rico Zenklusen: ERC Consolidator Grant
Rico Zenklusen is one of ten ETH Zurich researchers that receive an ERC Consolidator Grant from the European Research Council (ERC). Their projects are funded with around two million Swiss francs each.
In many decision-making problems there is only partial information available, and new information and estimates about the future arrive continuously – such problems fall within the field of online optimisation. Decisions made by the operators of hydropower plants about when to generate power are one example. It is often impossible to find the best solution to such complex problems within a reasonable amount of time. This is why the mathematician Rico Zenklusen is developing automated methods using novel algorithmic approaches in his ERC project. The results are intended to answer some fundamental questions in optimisation that are relevant to applied mathematics and theoretical computer science. He also studies problems which can only have integer solutions (e.g. the number of units produced in a production environment).
Rico Zenklusen is an assistant professor at the Institute for Operations Research (IFOR).