Frans J.C.T. de Ruiter
Tilburg University
Department of Econometrics and Operations
Email:
Research
Homepage:
Warandelaan 2, room K737
5037 AB Tilburg
The Netherlands
fjctderuiter at gmail com
www.fransderuiter.com
Personal
Born on December 18, 1990.
Nationality: Dutch.
Education
Ph.D. Operations Research, Tilburg University, 2014–2017 (expected).
Visiting Graduate Student, Operations Research Center at MIT, Spring/Summer 2015 and Spring/Summer
2016.
MSc. Applicable Mathematics (highest distinction), London School of Economics, 2013–2014.
MSc. Operations Research and Management Science (cum laude), Tilburg University, 2012–2013.
Honors and Awards
NWO Research Talent Grant to fully cover my PhD Research, 2014–2017.
Haya Freedman Prize for the best dissertation written in the mathematics department at the London
School of Economics, 2014.
First prize in the best student paper competition in the 2014 APMOD Conference at the Warwick
Business School.
VVS-OR prize for the best master thesis written in the Netherlands in the areas of Statistics and Operations Research, 2014.
Excellence Scholarship for partially funding further studies abroad from Tilburg University, 2014.
Topscholar grant for partially funding undergraduate studies from Tilburg University, 2009.
Publications
Journal Articles
Duality in two-stage adaptive optimization: faster computation and stronger bounds (with Dimitris
Bertsimas), 2016, to appear in INFORMS Journal on Computing.
The impact of the existence of multiple adjustable robust solutions (with Ruud C.M. Brekelmans and
Dick den Hertog), 2016, to appear in Mathematical Programming.
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Robust optimization of uncertain multistage inventory systems with inexact data in decision rules
(with Aharon Ben-Tal, Ruud C.M. Brekelmans and Dick den Hertog), 2016, to appear in Computational
Management Science.
Applications of integer programming methods to cages (with Norman L. Biggs), 2015, Electronic Journal
of Combinatorics, 22 (4), p4.35.
Talks
Research Seminar, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam (The Netherlands), February 2016.
41th Conference on the Mathematics of Operations Research, Lunteren (The Netherlands), January
2016.
22nd International Symposium on Mathematical Programming (ISMP), Pittsburgh PA (USA), July 2015.
40th Conference on the Mathematics of Operations Research, Lunteren (The Netherlands), January
2015.
11th International Conference on Applied Mathematical Optimization and Modelling (APMOD), Warwick (UK), April 2014.
Annual meeting of the Netherlands Society for Statistics and Operations Research (VVS+OR), Utrecht
(The Netherlands), March 2014.
Management Science seminar series, London School of Economics, London (UK), March 2014.
Teaching
Analytics for Business and Governance (Spring 2016 Tilburg University, Graduate level)
Linear Optimization (Fall 2015 Tilburg University, Undergraduate level)
Statistics for Business (Fall 2014, Fall 2015 Tilburg University, Undergraduate level)
Academic service
Reviewer for: Omega, OR Letters, EJOR.
Computer skills
Mathematical/Optimization: Matlab, Julia, AIMMS
Others: C++, Delphi
Languages
Dutch: Native
English: Fluent (IELTS 8/9, December 2012)
French/German: Conversational
Last updated: April 11, 2016