Yasmine Beck is a postdoctoral researcher at ESSEC Business School, specializing in bilevel and robust optimization. Before joining ESSEC, she was a research and teaching assistant at Trier University, where she also completed her PhD with a dissertation titled "Mixed-Integer Optimization Techniques for Robust Bilevel Problems with Here-and-Now Followers". Her research focuses on mathematical modeling and developing solution algorithms for optimization problems at the second level of the polynomial hierarchy.
Research Interests
- Bilevel Optimization
- Robust Optimization
- Mixed-Integer Optimization
- Network Pricing
- Applications in Transportation
Education
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PhD in Mathematical Optimization, 2024
Trier University, Germany -
Master of Science in Applied Mathematics, 2020
Trier University, Germany -
Bachelor of Science in Business Mathematics, 2019
Trier University, Germany
Yasmine Beck is a postdoctoral researcher at ESSEC Business School, specializing in bilevel and robust optimization. Before joining ESSEC, she was a research and teaching assistant at Trier University, where she also completed her PhD with a dissertation titled "Mixed-Integer Optimization Techniques for Robust Bilevel Problems with Here-and-Now Followers". Her research focuses on mathematical modeling and developing solution algorithms for optimization problems at the second level of the polynomial hierarchy.
Research Interests
- Bilevel Optimization
- Robust Optimization
- Mixed-Integer Optimization
- Network Pricing
- Applications in Transportation
Education
-
PhD in Mathematical Optimization, 2024
Trier University, Germany -
Master of Science in Applied Mathematics, 2020
Trier University, Germany -
Bachelor of Science in Business Mathematics, 2019
Trier University, Germany
News
- July 10, 2025: It was my pleasure to talk about A Brief Introduction to Bilevel Optimization Under Uncertainty: Key Concepts and Some Recent Algorithmic Advances at the Séminaire Optimisation Mathématique Modèle Aléatoire et Statistique at the Institut de Mathématiques de Bordeaux today.
- June 25, 2025: I am extremely proud and honored to have received the EURO Doctoral Dissertation Award (EDDA) 2025 for my PhD thesis "Mixed-Integer Optimization Techniques for Robust Bilevel Problems with Here-and-Now Followers" at the EURO2025 conference in Leeds, UK. Moreover, I am grateful to have received the EURO Award for the Best EJOR Paper (EABEP) 2025 (Category Review) for "A Survey on Bilevel Optimization Under Uncertainty" (jointly with Ivana Ljubić and Martin Schmidt).
- June 24, 2025: Today, I gave a an overview talk about A Primer on Bilevel Optimization Under Uncertainty at the EURO2025 Conference in Leeds.
- June 23, 2025: Today, I gave a talk about Exact and Heuristic Methods for $\Gamma$-Robust Mixed-Integer Linear Min-Max Problems at the EURO2025 Conference in Leeds. Moreover, I presented the results of my dissertation Mixed-Integer Optimization Techniques for Robust Bilevel Problems with Here-and-Now Followers in a special session for the finalists of the EURO Doctoral Dissertation Award (EDDA) 2025.
- April 22, 2025: I am excited to share that I am nominated as one of the four finalist for the EURO Doctoral Dissertation Award (EDDA) 2025. I will present the results of my PhD thesis "Mixed-Integer Optimization Techniques for Robust Bilevel Problems with Here-and-Now Followers" at the EURO2025 conference in Leeds, UK.