{"id":11,"date":"2021-01-19T20:35:32","date_gmt":"2021-01-19T20:35:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ise.ufl.edu\/kazachkov\/?page_id=11"},"modified":"2025-07-09T15:00:02","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T20:00:02","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/kazachkov\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Aleksandr M. Kazachkov"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/kazachkov\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/585\/2021\/10\/uf_2021-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Profile Picture of Aleksandr Kazachkov\" class=\"wp-image-65\" srcset=\"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/kazachkov\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/585\/2021\/10\/uf_2021-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/kazachkov\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/585\/2021\/10\/uf_2021-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/kazachkov\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/585\/2021\/10\/uf_2021.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>Assistant Professor &amp; <strong>Assistant Director of the Center for Applied Optimization<\/strong><br> Department of Industrial &amp; Systems Engineering at the University of Florida<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Assistant Director<\/strong>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ise.ufl.edu\/cao\/\">Center for Applied Optimization (CAO)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"mailto:akazachkov@ufl.edu\">akazachkov@ufl.edu<\/a><br><strong>Office:<\/strong>&nbsp;401B Weil Hall<br><strong>Phone:&nbsp;<\/strong>+1.352.273.4902<br><strong>Fax:<\/strong>&nbsp;+1.352.392.3537<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/akazachk.github.io\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/akazachk.github.io\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Personal Website<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em><em>Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon University, 2018<\/em><br><br><br><br><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:10px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Aleksandr M. Kazachkov is an assistant professor in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering and an assistant director of the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/go.ufl.edu\/cao\">Center for Applied Optimization<\/a>&nbsp;at the University of Florida. His research is in discrete optimization and computational economics, with prior work focusing on cutting plane algorithms, fair allocation of scarce resources, and fair mechanism design for healthcare, humanitarian, and sports settings. He received his Ph.D. in the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/aco.math.cmu.edu\/\">Algorithms, Combinatorics, and Optimization<\/a>&nbsp;program through the Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University, under&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cmu.edu\/news\/stories\/archives\/2019\/march\/egon-balas-obituary.html\">Egon Balas<\/a>, and following that was a postdoctoral researcher at Polytechnique Montr\u00e9al under&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/cerc-datascience.polymtl.ca\/\">Andrea Lodi<\/a>. For his research, he has received a GERAD Postdoctoral Fellowship, the 2018 INFORMS Computing Society Student Paper Award, the 2014 MIP Workshop Best Poster Prize, and the 2016 EXPLORE Workshop at AAMAS Most Visionary Paper Award.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>More information can be found at&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/akazachk.github.io\/\">https:\/\/akazachk.github.io<\/a>&nbsp;or for prospective students at&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/akazachk.github.io\/#students\">https:\/\/akazachk.github.io\/#students<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Aleksandr Kazachkov UF ISE Faculty Bio\" width=\"1640\" height=\"923\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-O94wQRKJ84?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Assistant Professor &amp; Assistant Director of the Center for Applied Optimization Department of Industrial &amp; Systems Engineering at the University of Florida Assistant Director,\u00a0Center for Applied Optimization (CAO) akazachkov@ufl.eduOffice:&nbsp;401B Weil HallPhone:&nbsp;+1.352.273.4902Fax:&nbsp;+1.352.392.3537 Personal Website Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon University, 2018 Aleksandr M. 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