About me
Dr. Pedro Munari is an Associate Professor at the Production Engineering Department of the Federal University of São Carlos (UFSCar), São Paulo, Brazil. He holds an M.Sc. and a Ph.D. in Computer Science and Computational Mathematics from the University of São Paulo.
His Ph.D. dissertation received the Odelar Leite Linhares Prize (1st place) from the Brazilian Society of Applied and Computational Mathematics. He held research visits at the School of Mathematics of the University of Edinburgh (UK), the School of Industrial and Systems Engineering of Georgia Tech (Atlanta, USA), and Friedrich-Schiller Universität Jena (Germany).
He has led numerous research projects with funding from agencies and developed applied projects with several companies in Brazil, with a focus on Operations Research and Logistics. He has published over 40 papers in prestigious journals such as Transportation Science, European Journal of Operational Research, and Mathematical Programming Computation.
He maintains the Munariflix YouTube channel with videos on Operations Research fundamentals.
ORCID
0000-0001-5929-593X
ResearcherID
I-1890-2012
Scopus
36448501900
ResearchGate
Pedro Munari
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CNPq
Research interests
Linear, integer and combinatorial optimization methods
- Large-scale optimization
- Decomposition and relaxation techniques
- Branch-and-price and branch-price-and-cut
- Cutting plane and column generation
- Simplex-type and interior point methods
Vehicle routing problems
- Classical variants: capacitated, time windows, multiple deliverymen, pickup and delivery
- Practical applications: maritime transportation in oil & gas, aircraft routing
- Deterministic, stochastic and robust optimization models
- Exact and hybrid methods
- Resource-constrained shortest path problem
Applied projects with industry
Experience in modeling and solving real-world problems in:
- Citrus and sugar cane industries — Strategic planning, juice production, harvest scheduling and routing
- Aircraft and maritime transportation — Helicopter routing, pickup and delivery, on-demand aviation
- Logistics and transportation — Routing, freight consolidation, bike sharing
- Industry — Cutting and packing, production planning, inventory control, white goods
Awards and distinctions
Odelar Leite Linhares Prize 2014, SBMAC. Manuscript · Presentation
SBPO 2019, SOBRAPO. View
XVIII ABRALOG Prize 2020-2021. View
Co-author. View
Honourable mention Clóvis Caesar Gonzaga Prize (SBMAC) · 1st place Best M.Sc. dissertation (SOBRAPO). View
Education
- Mar/2009–Jan/2013 — Ph.D. at the University of São Paulo under the joint supervision of Prof. Marcos Arenales and Prof. Jacek Gondzio (University of Edinburgh, UK). Thesis: Theoretical and computational issues for improving the performance of linear optimization methods. Funded by FAPESP/CAPES. Submitted: 12 Dec 2012; Viva: 31 Jan 2013.
- Jul/2012–Sep/2012 — Visiting postgraduate student at the University of Edinburgh, UK, under the supervision of Prof. Jacek Gondzio.
- Jan/2010–Dec/2010 — Visiting postgraduate student at the University of Edinburgh, UK, under the supervision of Prof. Jacek Gondzio.
- Mar/2007–Feb/2009 — M.Sc. at the University of São Paulo under the supervision of Prof. Marcos Arenales. Dissertation: Computational aspects for an efficient and stable implementation of simplex-type methods (in Portuguese). Funded by FAPESP.
- Mar/2002–Jan/2006 — B.Sc. in Computer Science from the University of State of São Paulo (UNESP).