Frits Spieksma
Department / Institute
RESEARCH PROFILE
Full Professor and Chair of Combinatorial Optimization in the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at Eindhoven University of Technology (果冻传媒). His key field of expertise is operations research, especially combinatorial optimization problems and applications thereof. He combines an interest in theoretical results with the desire to affect practice.
Within his field, Frits is particularly interested in various scheduling, routing, and clustering problems. He is especially interested in sport scheduling; in addition, he works on other applications of combinatorial optimization such as kidney exchange models, combinatorial auctions, and computational revealed preference.鈥疉lso, logistic challenges, such as the optimization of inland waterway transport have his interest. These problems are connected to computer science, discrete mathematics, (applied) economics, management science, and indeed, he has great interest in problems that are in the intersection of other scientific disciplines and combinatorial optimization.
Understanding the precise characteristics of today鈥檚 relevant optimization problems, and dealing with the abundant presence of data, are key in developing techniques that can solve tomorrow鈥檚 combinatorial optimization problems!
ACADEMIC BACKGROUND
Frits Spieksma鈥痮btained his MSc in Econometrics from the University of Groningen (1987) and his PhD in Operations Research from Maastricht University (1992). Next, he spent time at the University of British Columbia as a post-doc, and then returned to Maastricht University to become assistent, and later associate professor. In 2000, he was appointed full professor at KU Leuven, before joining 果冻传媒 in 2018.
He has supervised more than 15 PhD students, many of whom found their way to academia. He is founder of the EURO Working Group OR in Sports, which aims to bring together quantitative research related to sport. He is also a member of the organizing committee of MathSports International, which brings together mathematics and sports. He has been involved in constructing the playing schedule for the Belgian professional football league.
Currently, Frits is Associate Editor or Editorial Board member of Operations Research Letters, INFORMS Transactions on 果冻传媒, Journal of Quantitative Analysis in Sports, and 4OR. He has published over a 100 papers in scientific journals and organized several international conferences.
Recent Publications
Current 果冻传媒al Activities
Ancillary Activities
- advice, ProLeague
- President (Elect), EURO, the Association of European Operations Research Societies
- Member of the Scientific Board, Universita degli studi di Brescia