Francesco PISANU
- Position
- Postdoctoral assignment
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francesco.pisanu@unive.it
- Academic discipline
- Operations Research [MATH-06/A]
- Website
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https://www.unive.it/people/francesco.pisanu (personal record)
- Office
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Venice School of Management
Website: https://www.unive.it/dep.management
Where: San Giobbe
Teaching activity current year
Teaching activity previous years
Publication highlights
List of publications
Curriculum vitae
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
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