I had the pleasure of participating in the poster session at the MIP Europe Workshop 2026 in Rome and presenting our recent work on “Bilevel Optimization with a Piecewise-Linear Follower” (jointly with Henri Lefebvre, Oleg A. Prokopyev and Martin Schmidt). You can already find all our numerical results here. Stay tuned for the paper!

Simon Stevens is a PhD candidate in Martin Schmidt’s research team at Trier University. His research interests include (decision-dependent) robust optimization and bilevel optimization. He is also a research and teaching assistant at Trier University.
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Talk at the EUROYoung Workshop 2026 in Lugano
Today, I presented our new work (jointly with Henri Lefebvre, Oleg A. Prokopyev and Martin Schmidt) on “Bilevel Optimization with a Piecewise-Linear Follower” for the first time at the EUROYoung Workshop 2026 in Lugano. You can already check out all the numerical results contained in our computational study here. The preprint will follow shortly. Stay tuned!
Talk at IFORS 2026 in Vienna
Today, I had the great pleasure of presenting our work on "A Branch-and-Cut Approach for Decision-Dependent Robust Optimization Problems" at the IFORS 2026 conference in Vienna. I really enjoyed the discussions and the exchange of ideas (both research-related and not) that took place during the week.