Filippo Zanetti

Education and Positions

HiGHS Senior Optimization Solver Developer

The University of Edinburgh, 2024-present
Development of the new interior point solver for linear and quadratic programming for the open source optimization library HiGHS. Development of a specialized factorization code for positive definite and indefinite matrices
Supervisor: Dr. Julian Hall
Postdoctoral Research Associate

The University of Edinburgh, 2023
Development of a factorization-based interior point method for the HiGHS software library
Supervisor: Dr. Julian Hall
PhD in Optimization and Operational Research

The University of Edinburgh, 2019-2023
Thesis: Efficient interior point algorithms for large scale convex optimization problems
Supervisors: Prof. Jacek Gondzio, Dr. John Pearson
Master's Degree in Mathematical Engineering

University of Padua, 2017-2019
Thesis: Block preconditioners for saddle point linear systems arising in the finite elements discretization of the Navier-Stokes equations
Supervisor: Prof. Luca Bergamaschi
Bachelor's Degree in Aerospace Engineering

University of Padua, 2014-2017
Thesis: Acceleration of the Jacobi-Davidson method with low-rank preconditioners for the computation of eigenvalues of large and sparse matrices
Supervisor: Prof. Luca Bergamaschi

Tutor for the following courses:
University of Edinburgh, 2019-2023
- Calculus and applications
- Introduction to linear algebra
- Engineering mathematics
- Stochastic modelling
- Fundamentals of optimization
- Fundamentals of operational research
- Large scale optimization for data science
Referee for the following journals:
2020-present
- SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing
- Computational Optimization and Applications
- Optimization Methods and Software
- Journal of Scientific Computing
- Computers and Operations Research
- Mathematical Programming Computation
Internship at OZ Racing

2017-2018
I was a member of the University of Padua Formula SAE team in the Aerodynamic department