Bio
Full Professor
Department of Econometrics & Operations Research, Tilburg University, The Netherlands
(Oct 2014 - present)
Associate Professor
Department of EOR, Tilburg University, The Netherlands
(July 2009 - present)
Assistant Professor
Department of EOR, Tilburg University, The Netherlands
(March 2007 - July 2009)
Researcher
Department of EOR Tilburg University, The Netherlands
(March 2006 - March 2007)
Honorable Appointment
Department of Mathematics & Statistics, The University of Melbourne, Australia
(March 2006 - Dec 2007)
Research Fellow
Department of Mathematics & Statistics, The University of Melbourne, Australia
(Sept 2004 - Feb 2006)
Post Doctoral Fellow
Department of Computing and Software, McMaster University, Canada
and Department of Combinatorics and Optimization, University of Waterloo, Canada
(September 2003 - August 2004)
Expertise
Optimization, Operations Research
Courses
Collaboration
Managerial duties:
- Aug 2017 - present: Director of Graduate Studies Business
- Sept 2016 - Sept 2017: member of the Faculty council
- Sept 2012 - Aug 2017: Research coordinator of the Operations Research group
- Nov 2012 - Aug 2017: Education coordinator of the Operations Research group
- Sept 2009 - Aug 2013: Treasurer of the Department of Econometrics and OR
Consulting:
- AiMark marketing strategy for CZ with Dr. J. Vera (Sept 1 - Dec 31, 2016)
- AiMark marketing strategy for KPB Pijnenburg with Dr. J. Vera (Sept 15 - Dec 31, 2015)
- BHP--Billiton, Australia (Sept 2004 - Feb 2006)
Recent publications
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On solving the quadratic shortest path problem -
Hu, H., & Sotirov, R. (2019). On solving the quadratic shortest path problem. INFORMS Journal on Computing.
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Graph bisection revisited -
Sotirov, R. (2018). Graph bisection revisited. Annals of Operations Research, 265(1), 143-154.
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Special cases of the quadratic shortest path problem -
Sotirov, R., & Hu, H. (2018). Special cases of the quadratic shortest path problem. Journal of Combinatorial Optimization, 35(3), 754-777.
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The min-cut and vertex separator problem -
Rendl, F., & Sotirov, R. (2018). The min-cut and vertex separator problem. Computational Optimization and Applications, 69(1), 159-187.
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New bounds for the max-k-cut and chromatic number of a graph -
van Dam, E., & Sotirov, R. (2016). New bounds for the max-k-cut and chromatic number of a graph. Linear Algebra and its Applications, 488, 216 - 234.