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

Optimization, Operations Research

Courses

• Orientation Research Topics in Operations Research (CentER)
• Combinatorial Optimization
• RM Research Skills (CentER)
• Operations Research Methods

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

1. The quadratic cycle cover problem - Special cases and efficient bounds

   de Meijer, F., & Sotirov, R. (2020). The quadratic cycle cover problem: Special cases and efficient bounds. Journal of Combinatorial Optimization, 39, 1096–1128.

2. On solving the quadratic shortest path problem

   Hu, H., & Sotirov, R. (2020). On solving the quadratic shortest path problem. INFORMS Journal on Computing, 32(2), 219-233.

3. On solving the densest k-subgraph problem on large graphs

   Sotirov, R. (2020). On solving the densest k-subgraph problem on large graphs. Optimization Methods and Software, 35(6), 1160-1178.

4. 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.

5. Graph bisection revisited

   Sotirov, R. (2018). Graph bisection revisited. Annals of Operations Research, 265(1), 143-154.