
Affiliation
Assistant Professor
Computer Science Department
Institute of Mathematics and Statistics
University of São Paulo
mksilva AT ime.usp.br
Research Interests
- Semidefinite Optimization
- Combinatorial Optimization
- Spectral Graph Methods
Recent Publications [full list]
- Generalized Cuts and Grothendieck Covers: a Primal-Dual Approximation Framework Extending the Goemans–Williamson Algorithm (with N. Benedetto Proença, C.M. Sato, and L. Tunçel) [arxiv]
- A Primal-Dual Extension of the Goemans–Williamson Algorithm for the Weighted Fractional Cut-Covering Problem (with N. Benedetto Proença, C.M. Sato, and L. Tunçel) , to appear in Math. Programming A [arxiv]
- Dual Hoffman Bounds for the Stability and Chromatic Numbers Based on Semidefinite Programming (with N. Benedetto Proença and G. Coutinho) , SIDMA 35(4) 2021 [arxiv]
- A Notion of Total Dual Integrality for Convex, Semidefinite, and Extended Formulations (with L. Tunçel) , SIDMA 34(1) 2020 [arxiv]
- An Axiomatic Duality Framework for the Theta Body and Related Convex Corners (with L. Tunçel) , Math. Prog. 162, 2017 [arxiv]
Background [expand] [collapse]
PhD in Combinatorics and Optimization, U. Waterloo, 2013.
Thesis Title: Geometric Ramifications of the Lovász Theta Function and Their Interplay with Duality
M.Sc. in Computer Science, U. of São Paulo (USP), 2007.
Dissertation Title: Min-Max Relations in Combinatorial Optimization. (In Portuguese)