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Optimization expert with 10+ years of academic and industry experience

Profile Summary

Hi! I'm Aster Santana. Need help with optimization problems? I can probably help you! I'm passionate about teaching and solving challenging real-world problems using mathematical optimization and other analytics technologies. After obtaining a Ph.D. in Operations Research from Georgia Tech and having worked in the industry (consulting and software) from 2019 to 2021, I'm now working on personal projects and looking for new side projects. While at Georgia Tech, I was multiple times an instructor of the Engineering Optimization course and got elected the best instructor of the department in 2018. Over the past 10+ years, I've solved many practical problems, such as sports scheduling, transportation problems, inventory optimization, production planning. I have a lot of experience with mathematical formulation and modeling. Finally, I code in Python almost every day, and I'm particularly experienced with its interface with optimization solvers such as Gurobi, CPLEX, SCIP, and CBC-PuLP.

Subject Matter Expertise

• ★ Mathematical Optimization
• ☆ Industrial Operations Research
• ☆ Mathematical Models
• ☆ Python

Services

• Consulting
• Data & AI
• Product Development

Consulting Scientific and Technical Consulting

Data & AI Algorithm Design-Non ML, Big Data Analytics

Product Development Formulation, Prototyping

Work Experience

Founder / CEO

Mip Wise

August 2021 - Present

Sr. Solution Architect

Coupa Software

December 2020 - July 2021

Operations Research Scientist

LLamasoft

October 2019 - December 2020

Operations Research Scientist

Opex Analytics

May 2019 - October 2019

Education

Operations Research

Georgia Institute of Technology

August 2014 - May 2019

Mathematics and Computer Science

Federal University of Santa Catarina

March 2011 - March 2013

Mathematics

Federal University of Santa Catarina

March 2005 - March 2009

Certifications

• Certification details not provided.

Publications

JOURNAL ARTICLE

Asteroide Santana, Santanu S. Dey, Burak Kocuk(2020). Convexifications of rank-one-based substructures in QCQPs and applications to the pooling problem . Journal of Global Optimization. 77. (2). p. 227--272. Springer Science and Business Media {LLC}