Dr Felipe Maldonado

Biography

I am a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) at the School of Mathematics, Statistics and Actuarial Science, at the University of Essex. Before that I was a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Technical University of Munich (Department of Informatics) working with Martin Bichler on electricity market design. Before moving to Germany, I did my PhD studies at the Australian National University (School of Computer Science), working with Pascal Van Hentenryck and Gerardo Berbeglia. During my stay in Australia I was also part of CSIRO-Data61. Prior to that I worked for 2 years at the University of Concepcion, Chile as a sessional lecturer. Before that I studied Mathematical Engineering at the University of Chile, and I worked with Roberto Cominetti on my final thesis. Interests

• Reinforcement Learning (RL)
• Energy Analytics and Market Design
• Operational Research (OR)
• Logistics and Supply Chain
• Consumer Behaviour and Revenue Management
• Fintech
• Natural Language Processing (NLP)

Qualifications

• PhD in Computer Science Australian National University, (2020)

• Mathematical Engineering (BA + MSc) University of Chile, (2012)

Appointments

University of Essex

• Lecturer in Data Science and Operational Research, School of Mathematics, Statistics and Actuarial Science, University of Essex (5/7/2021 - present)

Other academic

• Postdoctoral Researcher, Decision Sciences & Systems, Technical University Munich (1/10/2019 - 30/6/2021)

• PhD Researcher, Data61, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (5/7/2015 - 31/7/2019)

• Research Visitor Scholar, Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering, University of Michigan (2/11/2015 - 31/5/2016)

• Instructor, Department of Mathematical Engineering, University of Concepcion (1/3/2013 - 30/1/2015)