Francesco PISANU

Position
Adjunct Professor
E-mail
francesco.pisanu@unive.it
Website
www.unive.it/people/francesco.pisanu (personal record)

Professional Experience

MSCA Postdoctoral Researcher

Venice School of Management, Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Italy — September 2026 – present

Postdoctoral Researcher

CORE, Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium — September 2024 – August 2026

ATER (Temporary Teacher & Researcher)

Université Sorbonne Paris Nord, France — September 2023 – August 2024

Teaching Assistant

Université Sorbonne Paris Nord, France — September 2021 – August 2023

Italian Ministry of Research Fellow

Traffic flow forecasting with neural networks, CRS4, Italy — September 2019 – August 2020

Master's Internship

X-ray pulsar signal recognition, Astronomical Observatory of Cagliari, Italy — October 2019 – November 2019

Erasmus+

Universitatea Alexandru Ioan Cuza, Iași, Romania — October 2018 – June 2019

Education

PhD in Computer Science

Université Sorbonne Paris Nord, France — December 2023
Advisor: Prof. Roberto Wolfler Calvo

MS in Applied Mathematics, summa cum laude

Università di Cagliari, Italy — February 2020
Advisor: Prof. Antonio Greco

BS in Mathematics

Università di Cagliari, Italy — September 2017
Advisor: Prof. Daniela Lera

Selected Publications

A full and up-to-date publication list, including preprints and versioned drafts, is available at francescopisanu91.github.io/publications.html

A Note on the Approximability of the Balanced Minimum Evolution Problem

Catanzaro, D., Pesenti, R., Pisanu, F. (2026). Operations Research Letters, Volume 67, Elsevier.

A Horizon Tour of Box-Total Dual Integrality

Lancini, E., Pisanu, F. (2026). Computer Science Review, Volume 61, Elsevier.

Hard Problems on Box-Totally Dual Integral Polyhedra

Chervet, P., Grappe, R., Lacroix, M., Pisanu, F., Wolfler Calvo, R. (2023). Discrete Optimization, Volume 50, Elsevier.

Awards, Fellowships, and Grants

  • 2026 — Postdoctoral Fellowship, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions, funded by the European Commission
  • 2020 — Merit-Based Graduation Fellowship (“Migliori Laureati”), funded by University of Cagliari
  • 2019 — Research Fellowship, “Cagliari 2020” Project, CRS4, funded by the Italian Ministry of Research
  • 2017 — Erasmus+ Mobility Fellowship (Universitatea Alexandru Ioan Cuza), funded by the European Commission and the University of Cagliari

Presentations

Invited Talks & Seminars (selected)

  • A Horizon Tour of Box-Total Dual Integrality — École Polytechnique de Louvain, Belgium, March 2026
  • Hard Problems on Box-TDI Polyhedra — Séminaire Parisien de Recherche Opérationnelle, Institut Henri Poincaré, Paris, France, November 2024
  • Box-Total Dual Integrality of the Perfect Matching Polytope — LAMSADE Seminar, Université Paris Dauphine, France, March 2024

Conferences (selected)

  • On the Approximability of the Balanced Minimum Evolution Problem — IFORS 2026, University of Vienna, Austria, July 2026
  • On the Complexity of Degree-Constrained Network Design Problems — INOC 2026, HEC Liège, Belgium, April 2026
  • On Strong Integrality Properties of the Perfect Matching Polytope — ORBEL 2025, Maastricht University, Netherlands, January 2025
  • On the Box-Total Dual Integrality of the Perfect Matching Polytope — EURO 2024, Copenhagen, Denmark, July 2024

Teaching Experience

Prescriptive Analytics (Management track, M2)

Ca' Foscari University of Venice — English, 30 hours — A.Y. 2026/27

Production and Operations Management (Management track, L3)

Université Catholique de Louvain — English, 15 hours — A.Y.s 2025/26, 2024/25

Programming and Computer Science courses (various tracks)

Université Sorbonne Paris Nord – Institut Galilée — French, ~204 hours combined — A.Y. 2023/24

Software Quality and Human-Computer Interaction (BUT1)

Institut Universitaire de Technologie (IUT) de Villetaneuse — French, 56 hours combined — A.Y.s 2022/23, 2021/22

Languages

  • Italian — Native
  • English — Advanced (writing, speaking, listening)
  • French — Advanced (writing, speaking, listening)

Academic Service and Activities

  • Member of the local organizing committee, International Conference on Optimization and Decision Science 2026 (ODS 2026), September 2026
  • Peer reviewer, Discrete Mathematics, Elsevier, 2026
  • Organizer, Extended Formulations lecture group, CORE internal optimization reading group, A.Y. 2025/26
  • Organizer, Matroid Theory lecture group, CORE internal optimization reading group, A.Y. 2024/25
  • Co-organizer, Operations Research Seminar Series, CORE department, A.Y.s 2025/26, 2024/25