About me
Ivana Ljubić is Professor of Operations Research at the ESSEC Business School of Paris. She received her habilitation in Operations Research at the University of Vienna (2013), and she holds PhD degree in computer science from the Vienna University of Technology (2004). She worked for two years in a company dealing with portfolio optimization before continuing her university career at the University of Vienna where she was appointed until 2015. She was also Visiting Researcher/Professor at the following institutions: La Sapienza in Rome, University of Maryland, TU Berlin, TU Dortmund, University of Paris Dauphine, etc. As of September 2015, she is appointed at the ESSEC Business School of Paris.
She is member of the Editorial Advisory Board for the journals European Journal of Operational Research, Computers and Operations Research, and she is Associate Editor for the journals Operations Research, Transportation Science and Networks. She also served as guest-editor of journals: European Journal of Operational Research and Annals of Operations Research and she is a former chair of the INFORMS Telecommunication Section.
Research interests of Ivana Ljubić include network design problems, combinatorial optimization, optimization under uncertainty, bilevel optimization. She uses tools and methods of mixed integer (non)-linear programming for solving optimization problems with applications in telecommunications, transportation, logistics, network design, design of data and distribution networks, social networks or bioinformatics. She received PhD Fellowship of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (DOC Fellowship, 2003-2004), PhD award of the Austrian Society for Operations Research (2005), Hertha-Firnberg Post-Doc Fellowship of the Austrian Science Fund (2007-2010) and APART Fellowship of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (2011-2013).
NEWS:
Nomination by Section 6 of the Comité national de la recherche scientifique for the CNRS Silver Medal
The Glover-Klingman Prize for the best Networks paper in 2021 for the article Ivana Ljubić: Solving Steiner trees: Recent advances, challenges, and perspectives, Networks 77 (2): 177-204, 2021
Marguerite Frank Award for the best EJCO paper in 2021 for the paper A Survey on Mixed-Integer Programming Techniques in Bilevel Optimization. Jointly with Thomas Kleinert, Martine Labbé, and Martin Schmidt.
Recent plenary talks:
PGMO Days 2022, Nov 29-30 2022, Paris
SIAM Conference on Optimization (OP21), July 2021