Cor Hurkens

Cor Hurkens is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e). His expertise spans operations research, combinatorial optimization, algorithm design, and applied mathematical modeling.

• Research Focus: Worst-case analysis of combinatorial algorithms, complexity of combinatorial problems, polyhedral theory, and local search approximation methods.
• Educational Contributions: Supervision of industrial projects and master projects, with a strong emphasis on mathematical modeling in the curriculum.

Publications Analysis: His work addresses optimization problems in diverse domains, including Traveling Salesman Problem heuristics, path packing algorithms, optical router revenue maximization, and classification tree learning via column generation.

Grants: Supported by the NWO Gravitation project NETWORKS (Grant Number 024.002.003).