## News

I am looking for a PhD student to work with me at LSE. More information here.

(March 2021). This year, I am part of the Program Committee for ICALP (Track A), MFCS and SODA.

(January 2021). Along with others in the Department of Mathematics at LSE, I will be organizing the (virtual) Highlights of Algorithms conference in June.

(December 2020). Congratulations to Dr. Madelon de Kemp for succesfully defending her PhD thesis!

(June 2020). I am organizing the Hausdorff Trimester Program on Discrete Optimization along with Daniel Dadush, Jesper Nederlof, Laura Sanità and László Végh. It will take place in Autumn 2021.

I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics at the London School of Economics and Political Science (here is my LSE profile). I am also affiliated with CWI in Amsterdam. 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. 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.

### Positions

• present2019

#### Assistant Professor

London School of Economics and Political Science

• 20192018

#### Associate Professor

Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam & CWI

• 20182013

#### Assistant Professor

Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam & CWI

• 20132010

MIT

### Education

• PhD 2010

PhD in Applied Mathematics

McGill University

• MSc 2006

Masters in Applied Mathematics

McGill University

• BSc (Hons) 2004

Bachelors degree, majoring in Mathematics, Computer Science and Physics

University of Cape Town

### Grants

• 2018 - 2023
NWO VIDI grant - Usable algorithms for network optimization
A competitive grant awarded by the NWO (Dutch Science Foundation) to pursue fundamental research and start a group.
• 2016
NWO TOP grant
Awarded by the NWO (Dutch Science Foundation), this grant funds a PhD position.
• 2013 - 2016
NWO VENI grant - Robustness and connectivity in network design
A competitive personal grant awarded by the NWO (Dutch Science Foundation) to pursue fundamental research.
• 2011 - 2014
NSF grant New Approaches to Fundamental Problems in Network Design
I was a co-PI of this grant, along with Michel Goemans and Rico Zenklusen.