University of Toronto | Mechanical and Industrial Engineering | Medical Operations Research Laboratory

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My CV

Mario Ventresca

Postdoctoral Fellow
Medical Operations Research Laboratory
Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
University of Toronto

Education

PhD, Systems Design Engineering, University of Waterloo, 2005-2009.
MSc, Computing and Information Science, University of Guelph, 2005.
BSc, Computer Science (Intelligent Systems), Brock University, 2003.

Positions Held

Adjunt Professor, Department of Computer Science, Brock University, 2011-present.
Research Associate, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, 2009-2011.

Research Interests

My primary research lies in the design, analysis and creative utilization of approximation algorithms for NP-hard optimization problems, with an emphasis on complex networks and computational synthesis. This work both expands on existing research trends while also establishing totally new areas of study. Major applications of current interest include pandemic disease mitigation and computer automated inference of complex systems. I also have a secondary research interest in applied machine learning and statistics for health/disease informatics problems.