Proud of Denisa Arsene for presenting us and our work at the Complex Networks conference last week. She had a lot of engagement during her presentation, and made a ton of cool new science friends from all over the world 🤓 🌟

Key contribution: SANA (simulated annealing for network anonymisation), an algorithm that makes small alterations to social networks to protect the people in the network from de-anonymization attacks.

Motivation: Facilitating data sharing between social scientists while preserving the privacy of the people who were part of those studies.

More info, including preprint and poster (with ALT): https://latower.github.io/posts/2025/11/sana/

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My student did a Science!

One week from now, Denisa Arsene will present the her BSc thesis research at the 14th International Conference on Complex Networks and their Applications, held in Binghamton, New York, USA!

More details and preprint: https://latower.github.io/posts/2025/11/sana/

I'm super proud of her, and I'm super happy that I got to do this project with her and two of my former colleagues from Leiden University: Rachel de Jong and Frank Takes!

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Only a few days left to apply!

If you are interested in logic, decision-making, reasoning under uncertainty and statistics, apply by the end of this month for an opportunity to work with me, dr. Sicco Verwer and dr. Fabian Mies at Delft University of Technology!

Application deadline: 31 August 2025

https://careers.tudelft.nl/job/Delft-PhD-Position-Symbolic-AI-and-Reasoning-Under-Uncertainty-2628-CD/824585702/

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One month left to apply!

If you are looking for a PhD position and are interested in working on probabilistic inference, sensitivity analysis, and decision-making, this might be the job for you! We are looking for candidates with a strong background in Computer Science, and ideally also in Mathematics.

Please apply by 31 August. We're looking forward to reading your application!

https://careers.tudelft.nl/job/Delft-PhD-Position-Symbolic-AI-and-Reasoning-Under-Uncertainty-2628-CD/824585702/

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Hi everyone,

I feel like a re-introduction is long overdue!

My name is Anna, and I'm an assistant professor of Algorithmics at the Delft University of Technology, specialising in combinatorial optimisation, symbolic AI, constraint programming, propositional model counting, operations research and reasoning under uncertainty.

I'm a nerd, a feminist and a traveller, not always in that order.

In my spare time I like to hike and go geocaching. I try to go swing dancing a few times a week. I am a Trekkie. I want to learn how to draw. I am an Indomie and Obsidian enthusiast. Based in the Netherlands, I miss Belgium, Canada and Singapore.

Since a job in academia somehow always is personal, I have chosen to mix professional interactions with the more personal ones on this platform. At least for now. Obviously, my opinions do not necessarily reflect those of my employer yadiyadiyada.

Hope to keep interacting with you all!

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Congrats to ir. Roy Katz for successfully defending his MSc thesis: "Adding Ejection Chain to Nurse Rostering Simulated Annealing Solver"!

https://latower.github.io/posts/2025/06/roy-defends/

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I am hiring!

I have a fully funded PhD position available for someone with an interest in logic and statistics, at Delft University of Technology (Netherlands).

Application deadline: 31 August 2025

https://careers.tudelft.nl/job/Delft-PhD-Position-Symbolic-AI-and-Reasoning-Under-Uncertainty-2628-CD/824585702/

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My colleagues at TU Delft are seeking to hire a postdoc to work on Applied Planning and Scheduling under Uncertainty, with applications in modelling supply chain scenarios for offshore wind farm installation: https://careers.tudelft.nl/job/Delft-Postdoc-in-Applied-Planning-and-Scheduling-under-Uncertainty-2628-CD/814890902/

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Excited to be presenting "Solving the Identifying Code Set Problem with Grouped Independent Support" at 11:45 in Almaty 6007 (CSO Constraint Programming session) today at IJCAI!

If you cannot make it to my presentation, no worries! You can check out the slides or my poster, or come talk to me during the poster session at the end of the day 🤓

paper: https://www.ijcai.org/proceedings/2023/0219.pdf

slides: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/latower/latower.github.io/master/files/slides/LatEtAl23-handout.pdf

poster: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/latower/latower.github.io/master/files/posters/LatEtAl23.pdf

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