Ashkan Safari

About Myself

Ashkan has recently completed his PhD in Operations Research at Maastricht University, under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Tjark Vredeveld and Dr. Lars Rohwedder. His research focuses on the rigorous analysis of heuristic algorithms for combinatorial optimization problems, with applications in scheduling, routing, and related areas of Operations Research. Before his doctoral studies, Ashkan obtained a Master’s degree in Computer Science (2021) and a Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology Engineering (2018) from the Institute for Advanced Studies in Basic Sciences (IASBS), where he worked under the supervision of Dr. Mansoor Davoodi Monfared. His academic background combines Theoretical Computer Science, Operations Research, and applied algorithm design.

Education

2021 - 2025

Ph.D. Candidate

Project: Rigorous Analysis of Local Search

Project Domain: Mathematics/Computer Science

Maastricht University

Maastricht, The Netherlands

Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Tjark Vredeveld and Dr. Lars Rohwedder

2018 - 2021

M.Sc. in Computer Science

Institute for Advanced Studies in Basic Sciences (IASBS)

Zanjan, Iran

Supervisor: Dr. Mansoor Davoodi Monfared

2014 - 2018

B.Sc. in Information Technology Engineering

Institute for Advanced Studies in Basic Sciences (IASBS)

Zanjan, Iran

Supervisor: Dr. Mansoor Davoodi Monfared

Publications

- L. Rohwedder, A. Safari, and T. Vredeveld, A k-swap local search for makespan scheduling, Computers & Operations Research (2025): 107168.

- L. Rohwedder, A. Safari, and T. Vredeveld, Smoothed Analysis of the k-Swap Neighborhood for Makespan Scheduling, Operations Research Letters (2025): 107244.

- M. Davoodi, and A. Safari, Path Planning in a Weighted Planar Subdivision Under the Manhattan Metric, Graphs and Combinatorics 40.1 (2024): 16.

- M. Davoodi, H. Enamzadeh, and A. Safari, Path Planning in a Weighted Planar Subdivision Under the Manhattan Metric, In Canadian Conference on Computational Geometry, University of Saskatchewan, August 5-7, 2020.