Summary
Rodrigo Linfati is an Associate Professor of Industrial Engineering at the Universidad del Bío-Bío with 16 years of academic and research experience in operations research and combinatorial optimization. He holds a PhD from the Università di Bologna and combines deep expertise in exact methods (branch-and-cut, branch-and-price) with practical mastery of heuristics and metaheuristics (TS, SA, VNS, GA, ACO). His applied work targets scheduling, supply chain and logistics problems in sectors like forestry, sawmilling and mining, translating theoretical advances into industry-relevant solutions. Since joining the university in 2012 he has progressed through teaching and research ranks, supervising applied optimization projects that bridge academia and regional industry. Colleagues value him for pairing rigorous mathematical modeling with pragmatic algorithm design tailored to real-world constraints.
16 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering - MEng, Industrial Engineering, Master of Engineering - MEng, Industrial Engineering at Universidad de Concepción
University of Bologna
Spanish, English, Italian