prof.dr.ir. Renata Sotirov

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

Mathematical Programming, Combinatorial Optimization, Semidefinite Programming, Operations Research

Courses

• Combinatorial Optimization
• Operations Research Methods

Collaboration

Managerial duties:

• Aug 2017 -  Dec 2022: 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

1. The maximum $k$-colorable subgraph problem and related problems

   Kuryatnikova, O., Sotirov, R., & Vera, J. C. (2022). The maximum $k$-colorable subgraph problem and related problems. INFORMS Journal on Computing, 34(1), 656-669.

2. On the generalized $\vartheta$-number and related problems for highly…

   Sinjorgo, L., & Sotirov, R. (Accepted/In press). On the generalized $\vartheta$-number and related problems for highly symmetric graphs. SIAM Journal on Optimization.

3. SDP-based bounds for the Quadratic Cycle Cover Problem via cutting pl…

   de Meijer, F., & Sotirov, R. (2021). SDP-based bounds for the Quadratic Cycle Cover Problem via cutting plane augmented Lagrangian methods and reinforcement learning. INFORMS Journal on Computing, 33(4), 1262-1276.

4. The linearization problem of a binary quadratic problem and its appli…

   Hu, H., & Sotirov, R. (2021). The linearization problem of a binary quadratic problem and its applications. Annals of Operations Research, 307(1-2), 229-249.

5. Lower bounds for the bandwidth problem

   Rendl, F., Sotirov, R., & Truden, C. (2021). Lower bounds for the bandwidth problem. Computers & Operations Research, 135, [105422].