Eranda Dragoti-Çela

    Graz University of Technology

    Department of Optimization and Discrete Mathematics Curriculum Vitae

    • Personal Data:

      Bith date: 8.11.1969 (née Çela)
      Birth place: Durres, Albania
      Civil status: married, two children

    • Education and Academic Degrees

      • 1987-1992: Study of Applied Mathematics at the University of Tirana, Albania.

        July 1992: Graduation to "Matematikane", similar to M.Sc, from the University of Tirana. With distinction.

        Diploma Thesis: Algorithms for network flow problems: a comparative efficiency analysis (in Albanian)

      • January 1993-December 1995: Ph.D. student at Graz University of Technology, Austria.
        Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Rainer Burkard.

        December 1995: Defence of Ph.D. Thesis.
        Graduation to "Doktorin der Technischen Wissenschaften" from Graz University of TechnologyGraz University of Technology. With distinction.

        Ph. D. Thesis: The quadratic assignment problems: special cases and relatives (in English).

      • May 2001: Venia docendi for Applied Mathematics, conferred by the Graz University of Technology, Graz, Austria.

        Habilitation Thesis: NP-hard location problems: efficiently solvable special cases and lower bounds (in English).

    • Academic and Professional Experience

      • September 1992 -January 1993: Assistant Lecturer at the Department of Mathematics,
        Operational Research Division, University of Tirana.

      • February 1993 - October 1993: Research Fellow with the Department of Optimization and Discrete Mathematics, Graz University of Technology;
        Research Grant of the Austrian Academic Exchange Service (ÖAAD).

      • November 1993 - January 1994: Research Fellow in the Project P8971-PHY "Dynamische Flußprobleme und invers-parametrische Optimierungsprobleme" funded the Austrian Research Fund (FFF), Graz University of Technology.

      • February 1994 - July 1994: Research Fellow with the Christian Doppler Labor "Diskrete Optimierung",Graz University of Technology.

      • August 1994 - January 1995: Doctoral Research Fellow at Department of Optimization and Discrete Mathematics, Graz University of Technology.

        Project: SFB "Optimierung und Kontrolle" funded by the FFF (The Austrian Research Fund), Partial project "Diskrete Optimierung".

      • January 1996 - February 1999: Postdoc at the Department of Optimization and Discrete Mathematics, Graz University of Technology.

        Project: SFB "Optimierung und Kontrolle" funded by the FFF (The Austrian Research Fund), Partial project "Diskrete Optimierung".

      • March 1999 - September 2001: Assistant Professor at Graz University of Technlology (TU Graz), Department of Optimization and Discrete Mathematics.

        • October 2001 - August 2002: Associate Professor at Graz University of Technlology, Department of Optimization and Discrete Mathematics .
        December 2000 - February 2001: Maternity leave.

      • September 2002- August 2007: head of the quant team working on the fin4cast project at Siemens Austria AG, Vienna. On leave from TU Graz.
        June 2004 - August 2005: Maternity leave.

      • Since September 2007: Associate Professor at Graz University of Technlology, Department of Optimization and Discrete Mathematics .

    • Invited and/or Sponsored Talks at Universities

      • Università degli Studi di Trento, Trento Italien, 1994.
      • Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, Eindhoven, the Netherlands. 1996.
      • Technical University of Denmark, Kopenhagen, Denmark, 1997
      • Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria, 2006

    • Talks at Scientific Conferences (a selection)

      • IPCO V, Integer Programming and Combinatorial Optimization, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, June 1996.
      • ISMP 1998 - 16th International Symposium on Mathematical Programming, Lausanne, Switzerland, August 1998.
      • OR 98 - International Symposium on Operations Research, Zurich, Switzerland, September 1998.
      • DIMACS-RUTCORS Workshop on Discrete Optimization - DO 99, Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA, July 1999.
      • ECCO XIII - European Chapter on Combinatorial Optimization, Capri, Italy, Mai 2000.
      • CO 2000 - International Symposium on Combinatorial Optimisation, London, UK, July 2000.
      • ISMP 2000 - 17th International Symposium on Mathematical Programming, Atlanta, Georgia, USA, July 2000.
      • OR 2002 - International Symposium on Operations Research, Klagenfurt, Austria, September 2002.
      • ISMP 2003 - 18th International Symposium on Mathematical Programming, Kopenhagen, Denmark, August 2003.
      • EURO XXI - 21st European Conference on Operations Research, Reykjavik, Iceland, July 2006.
      • EURO XXII - 22st European Conference on Operations Research, Prague, Chezc Republic, July 2007.

    • Refeeree for Scientific Journals (a selection)

      • Discrete Applied Mathematics
      • Mathematical Programming
      • SIAM Journal on Optimization
      • Linear Algebra and its Applications
      • Operations Research Letters
      • Managment Science
      • European Journal of Operational Research
      • Computational Optimization and its Applications
      • Journal of Combinatorial Optimization
      • Annals of Operations Research
      • Discrete Optimization

    • Memberships

      • Member of the board of the Austrian Operational Research Society (ÖGOR) - since 2008
      • Member of the Austrian Mathematical Society - since 2010

    cela@opt.math.tu-graz.ac.at.

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    Last Update: April 2013