Speaker: Anna Livia Croella
Date: Monday, May 8 2023, 17:00
Place: Sala Seminari Ovest
Abstract/Bio: Anna Livia Croella is a postdoctoral researcher in Operations Research at the University of Pisa, formerly a postdoctoral fellow at La Sapienza University of Rome, where she received her PhD in Operations Research in May 2022 and her B.S. in Management Engineering in October 2017.
Her main theoretical interests include Combinatorial Optimization and Mixed Integer Programming.
Anna Livia has worked on a diverse portfolio of application issues, covering both industry and society, such as:
i) train rescheduling problems, she formulated a novel Dynamic Discretization Discovery model with a MaxSAT approach to reschedule train in real-time and outlined an automated procedure to achieve improved system safety in case of a disruption occurrence (a protocol now adopted by a Class I North-American railway);
ii) location-routing in waste management, she proposed a network design model for a large metropolitan area and a cluster-first location&sizing&route-second approach for designing a biomethane production chain fed by the Organic Fraction of Municipal Solid Waste,
iii) optimal fleet acquition problem, she formulated a plan for the acquisition of road vehicles by local public transport that, while meeting minimum technical requirements, minimizes the environmental impact of the fleet and its lifespan utility.