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Sven Polak obtained his Ph.D. in Mathematics under the supervision of Lex Schrijver at the University of Amsterdam in 2019. Following his doctoral studies, he worked as an Operations Research Engineer at ORTEC, focusing on optimization problems, in Zoetermeer from September 2020 to April 2023. He then took on a postdoctoral researcher role with Monique Laurent at the Centrum Wiskunde en Informatica (CWI) in the research group Networks and Optimization. In 2023, he joined Tilburg University as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Econometrics and Operations Research. His research interests lie at the intersection of discrete mathematics and optimization, with a particular focus on convex relaxations of hard optimization problems, employing algebraic techniques to reduce complexity in combinatorial and polynomial semidefinite optimization problems. He is broadly interested in discrete mathematics and coding theory.
Tilburg University • Tilburg, Netherlands
Joined as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Econometrics and Operations Research.
Centrum Wiskunde en Informatica (CWI) • Amsterdam, Netherlands
Worked in the research group Networks and Optimization.
ORTEC • Zoetermeer, Netherlands
Focused on optimization problems.
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