Personale docente

GENERAL INFORMATION

Marco Locatelli

Born in Piacenza on January, 10th, 1968

Got the Master Degree in Information Science at the University of Milan with the final mark 110/110 cum laude, July, 16^th, 1992

Got the PhD Degree in ``Matematica Computazionale e Ricerca Operativa'' at the University of Milan, 1993-1996, with final examination at the University of Naples, September 1997.

Got a post-doc position at the Department of Mathematics of the University of Trier (Germany), April 1997-March 1998.

Got a post-doc position at the Department of Systems and Computer Science of the University of Firenze, September 1998-October 1999

Research assistant in Operations Research at the Department of Computer Science of the University of Turin, November 1999- February 2002

Associate Professor in Operations Research at the Department of Computer Science of the University of Turin, March 2002- September 2009

Associate Professor in Operations Research at the Department of Information Engineering of the University of Parma, October 2009- October 2010

Full Professor in Operations Research at the Department of Information Engineering (later on denominated Department of Engineering and Architecture) of the University of Parma, October 2010- now

He was the Coordinator of the PhD in Information Technologies at the University of Parma between 2011 and 2025

He is eligible as an examiner for the Italian scientific qualification procedure (ASN) for the SSD MAT/09

TEACHING ACTIVITY

He taught at: Politecnico di Milano (1996), Diploma Universitario in Ambiente e Risorse at the University of Firenze (1998-1999), Bachelor and Master Degree in Computer Science at the University of Torino (1999-2010), Bachelor Degree in Computer Science at the University of Parma  (2003-2009), Master in Bioinformatics at the University of Torino (2002), Master in Strategic Sciences in collaboration between  the Scuola di Applicazione in Torino and the University of Torino (2001-2009), Master Degree in Computer Science Engineering and Telecommunications Engineering at the University of Parma (2009-now), Bachelor Degree in Electronics, Computer Science and Telecommunications Engineering at the University of Parma (2010-now), PhD in Information Technology at the University of Parma (2012, 2019)

SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITY

The scientific activity is mainly focused on solving global optimization problems, in which the global minimum of a function is searched for in the presence of local minima. In this context he developed theoretical studies on the complexity of these problems and heuristic and exact algorithms for their solution. Applications of the investigated methodologies include molecular conformation, packing, planning of space missions, motion planning problems. He also carried out research in the field of heuristic approaches for combinatorial optimization problems, such as the max-clique problem.

RESEARCH PROJECTS

He took part to the following research projects  

MoSPRAS - Modelli di Simulazione per la Pianificazione

delle Risorse nelle Aziende Ospedaliere

MOST - Metodi per l'Ottimizzazione di Sistemi e Tecnologie

COSO  - Complex Systems Optimization

FIRB “Ottimizzazione non lineare su larga scala”

PRIN “Problemi di applicazione a scala reale di modelli ed algoritmi per il progetto dei sistemi di trasporto collettivo condivisi ed a prenotazione”

PRIN “Ottimizzazione globale per problemi con un elevato numero di ottimi locali”

PRIN “Ottimizzazione continua a grande dimensione”

AWARDS

Winner (together with B.Addis and F.Schoen) of the Al Zimmermann's Programming Contest on a Circle Packing problem

One of his students, Daniele Depetrini, won the AIRO award for the best 2007 Master Degree thesis with a thesis titled "Algoritmi per la risoluzione di problemi di Linear Multiplicative Programming"

Chairman's Recognition of Outstanding Paper for "A dynamical System Perspective on Evolutionary Heuristics Applied to Space Trajectory Optimization Problems" joint work with M. Vasile and E. Minisci, at the "2009 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation"

Best paper award 2016 and 2023 for the Journal of Global Optimization

Best paper award 2024 for the journal  Computational Optimization and Applications

Nominated EUROPT Fellow in 2018

CONFERENCES AND EDITORIAL ACTIVITIES

He attended and has been member of the scientific committee of many international conferences

He has been invited speaker at different international conferences. In particular, in the last years he has been invited speaker at ICCOPT 2010, Santiago del Chile (Chile), EUROPT 2013, Firenze (Italy), VOCAL 2014, Veszprem (Hungary), EUROPT 2018, Almeria (Spain).

He refereed papers for many international journals.

He is currently in the Editorial Board of Computational Optimization and Applications, Journal of Global Optimization, SN Operations Research Forum, Operations Research Letters, Optimization Methods and Software.

PUBLICATIONS

His book

Global Optimization: Theory, Algorithms, and Applications

written in collaboration with F. Schoen has been published in scritto in 2013 by the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM). He published more than 110 papers in international journals.