Subject to: Timo Berthold
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Timo Berthold is a Director at FICO, leading the MIP research and development team of the FICO Xpress Solver. In additon, he is a lecturer at the Mathematical Optimization Department of TU Berlin, working of the intersection of academia and industry. Before joining FICO, Timo was a main developer of the open-source MIP and MINLP solver SCIP at Zuse Institue Berlin. Timo is an expert on all aspects of computational mixed-integer linear and nonlinear optimization, heuristic methods, and recently, the integration of ML methods into optimization solvers. He has published over 50 papers in this field, supervised many talented students and won multiple prestigious awards for his research. As a fun-fact, his PhD thesis won the 2014 GOR dissertation award and made the finals of the EURO dissertation award, while at the same time, an accompanying article on his PhD work received a science-communication prize for being the best "Math research explained to the general public" article of the year.
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