Margarida Carvalho

News

• Recruitment MSc/PhD Fall 2025: Supervision Requests.
• Join the Bilevel Optimization Society!
• Save the date: Workshop: Combinatorial Optimization and Data Science - May 2025.
• I am happy to have received the Teaching Excellence Award and Mathematical Programming 2023 Meritorious Service Award.
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• Lecture in Bilevel Programming: IWOBIP 2024.
• Overview talk 2023: Extending the wonders of integer programming to solve games.
• Excellent article: "Women Just Wanna Have OR: Young Researchers Interview Expert Researchers".
• I held the FRQ–IVADO Research Chair in Data Science for Combinatorial Game Theory.
• I was awarded the EURO Doctoral Dissertation Award 2018. See Press.

Teaching

IFT 6504 Mathematical Programming.

IFT 3151 Computer Science Internship.

IFT 1575 Operational Research Models.

IFT 1065 Discrete Mathematics in Computer Science.

Short Bio

I have a bachelor's and master's degree in mathematics. In 2016, I completed the PhD in computer science at the University of Porto (Portugal), for which I was awarded the 2018 EURO Doctoral Dissertation Award. In 2017, I came to Canada as an IVADO Postdoctoral Fellow at Polytechnique Montréal. One year after, I became an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Operations Research at the University of Montreal, and I held the FRQ–IVADO Research Chair in Data Science for Combinatorial Game Theory. I am currently an Associate Professor. I am also an associate editor of INFORMS Journal on Computing, OR Spectrum and Dynamic Games and Applications.

My research lies at the intersection of integer programming and algorithmic game theory. I am working on extending integer programming and other optimization methodologies to compute equilibria in socio-economic games. In addition to methodological research, my work also focuses on applications in the fields of health, sustainable development and education, including kidney exchange programs, electric vehicle adoption and school choice.