Matheus Jun Ota

Matheus Jun Ota

PhD in Combinatorics and Optimization

C&O@UWaterloo

About Me

My research is mainly about Combinatorial Optimization and Operations Research. I enjoy both investigating the theoretical and structural properties, as implementing efficient and practical algorithms. I have the privilege of being supervised by Professor Ricardo Fukasawa.

Download my resume. You can access my master’s dissertation here.

Interests
  • Combinatorial Optimization
  • Operations Research
  • Integer Programming
  • Approximation Algorithms
Education
  • PhD in Combinatorics in Optimization, current

    University of Waterloo

  • MS in Computer Science, 2020

    University of Campinas

  • BEng in Computer Engineering, 2018

    University of Campinas

Experience

 
 
 
 
 
PhD in Combinatorics and Optimization
Jan 2021 – Present Waterloo-CA
I work with professor Ricardo Fukasawa on Integer Programming techniques.
 
 
 
 
 
Student Researcher
Sep 2022 – Dec 2022 Cambridge-US
Worked in the Operations Research team.
 
 
 
 
 
Software Engineering Intern
Jan 2020 – Apr 2020 London-UK
Worked at Facebook AR/VR division using C++ and OpenGL.
 
 
 
 
 
Software Developer
Aug 2017 – Oct 2018 Campinas-BR
Back-End Developer. Working with Java and using technologies like Apache Camel, Active MQ, MariaDB, Spring Boot, Docker and Git/SVN.
 
 
 
 
 
Undergraduate Student Researcher
May 2016 – Jun 2016 Denver-US
Together with professor Nathan Sturtevant, developed a Puzzle Generator for the game “The Witness”. The generator was made using techniques based on Procedural Content Generation. The work was published in AIIDE'18.