Personal profile
Research interests
My research interests are mainly mathematical optimization, probabilistic combinatorics and their applications in operations research and combinatorics.
Career
Full Professor
Department of Econometrics & Operations Research, Tilburg University, The Netherlands
2024 -
Associate Professor
Department of Econometrics & Operations Research, Tilburg University, The Netherlands
2016 - 2024
Assistant Professor
Department of Econometrics & Operations Research, Tilburg University, The Netherlands
2010 - 2016
Assistant Professor (fixed term)
Department of Management Sciences, University of Waterloo, Canada.
2008 - 2010.
Post Doctoral Fellow
Department of Management Sciences, University of Waterloo.
Conic relaxations of complementarity problems
Advisor: Miguel Anjos
2007 - 2008.
Post Doctoral Fellow
College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology.
Markov Chain Montecarlo Methods and phase transitions in Statistical Physics
Advisor: Eric Vigoda
2006 - 2007
Current courses
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Keywords
- Operations Research
- Optimisation
- Mathematics
- Combinatorics
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
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SDG 2 Zero Hunger -
SDG 7 Affordable and Clean Energy
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Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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Optimization hierarchies for distance-avoiding sets in compact spaces
Bekker, B., Kuryatnikova, O., De Oliveira Filho, F. M. & Vera, J. C., 2026, In: Transactions of the American Mathematical Society. 379, 1, p. 33-70Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Scientific › peer-review
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The link between 1-norm approximation and effective positivstellensatze for the hypercube
de Klerk, E. & Vera, J. C., Mar 2026, In: Numerical Algebra Control and Optimization. 16, p. 84-104 21 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Scientific › peer-review
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Optimality conditions for penalized sparse PCA
Guerra-Urzola, R., Vera, J. C. & Deun, K. V., Sept 2025, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Optimization and Engineering. 2025, 20 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Scientific › peer-review
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Reducing nonnegativity over general semialgebraic sets to nonnegativity over simple sets
Kuryatnikova, O., Vera, J. C. & Zuluaga, L. F., Apr 2024, In: SIAM Journal on Optimization. 34, 2, p. 1970-2006 37 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Scientific › peer-review
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Contingent capital with stock price triggers in interbank networks
Balter, A., Schweizer, N. & Vera, J. C., Feb 2023, In: Mathematics of Operations Research. 48, 1, p. 520-543Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Scientific › peer-review
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Code and scripts for the article Optimality Conditions for Penalized Sparse PCA
Guerra Urzola, R. (Creator), Vera, J. C. (Creator) & Van Deun, K. (Creator), GitHub, 24 Jan 2025
https://github.com/RosemberGuerra/OptimalityConditionsSPCA
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