Kanstantsin Pashkovich

Kanstantsin Pashkovich is an Assistant Professor at the University of Waterloo's Department of Combinatorics & Optimization. Previously, he held roles as an Assistant Professor at the University of Ottawa and a Research Assistant Professor at the University of Waterloo. His academic journey includes postdoctoral positions at institutions such as the Simons Institute, Université Libre de Bruxelles, and Università degli Studi di Padova. He earned his PhD from Otto-von-Guericke Universität and a Diploma from Belarusian State University.

His research focuses on combinatorial optimization, polytopes, slack ideals, and extended formulations. He has collaborated extensively with researchers like Volker Kaibel, Michele Conforti, and Laura Sanità. Key contributions include work on psd-minimal polytopes and computational methods for slack matrices.

Pashkovich has taught numerous courses at both the University of Waterloo and University of Ottawa, including 'Introduction to Optimization,' 'Computational Discrete Optimization,' and specialized topics such as 'Extended Formulations and Hierarchies.' His teaching spans from 2015 to the present, emphasizing discrete mathematics and optimization.

His research has led to significant computational studies, such as those detailed in his paper on four-dimensional polytopes' positive semidefinite rank. Collaborative efforts involve developing parametrizations and algebraic techniques to analyze polytope properties.