Bio
Alexander Ek is a Research Fellow in the Department of Econometrics and Business Statistics at Monash University, and an Associate Investigator at OPTIMA. In 2022, He received his PhD degree in computer science from Monash University. Most of his research centers around combinatorial optimisation, data-driven decision-making under uncertainty, election integrity and auditing, and combining statistics and optimisation.
Address
Postal
Alexander Ek
Department of Econometrics & Business Statistics
Monash University
Clayton VIC 3800
Australia
Office
Room 340, Level 3, Building 6
29 Ancora Imparo Way
Clayton VIC 3168
Australia
Email
Firstname.Lastname (at) monash.edu
Education
PhD in Computer Science Monash University, Australia
2022
Dissertation: High-Level Modelling and Solving for Online, Real-Time, and Multiagent Combinatorial Optimisation
MSc in Computer Science Uppsala University, Sweden
2018
BSc in Computer Science Uppsala University, Sweden
2016
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Professional Experience
Postdoctoral Research Fellow Monash University, Australia
Mar 2023–present
Associate Investigator OPTIMA ARC, Australia
Jul 2022–present
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
The University of Melbourne, Australia
Jul 2022–Mar 2023
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Honours and Awards
Best Paper Award 8th International Joint Conference on Electronic Voting
2023
Quality Conference Travel Fund Grant Monash University, Australia
2022
Doctoral Program Travel Grant The Association for Constraint Programming, France
2022
Graduate Research Completion Award Monash University, Australia
2022
Best Poster Award International School in AI and its Applications in Computer Science, Monash University, Australia
2021
Postgraduate Travel Grant Monash University, Australia
2019
Doctoral Program Travel Grant The Association for Constraint Programming, France
2019
Data61 Top-up Scholarship
CSIRO Data61, Australia
2018–2022
Faculty Co-Funded Monash Graduate Scholarship
Monash University, Australia
2018–2022
Faculty of IT International Postgraduate Research Scholarship
Monash University, Australia
2018–2022
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