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 Prof. M. Mandjes → ABN AMRO
- Thomas Bosman (2015 – 2019); co-supervised with Prof. L. Stougie → Booking.com