About me
Salve! My name is Tommaso, I come from Italy (from Florence). In my free time, I love playing chess, learning about language and geography and dancing latin american dances.
I am a PhD student (Advisor: Nysret Musliu) in the Vienna Graduate School on Computational Optimization (VGSCO).
Contact Details
| Address: | TU Wien | |
| Favoritenstrasse 9, Office Room HE 0332 | ||
| 1040 Vienna | ||
| Austria | ||
| Phone: | (+43) 1 58801 192219 | |
| Email: | tommaso.mazzoli [at] tuwien.ac.at | |
| CV: | pdf (updated: 2023-10-17) |
Research Interests:
My area of study is Combinatorial Optimisation. Specifically, I'm currently working on hybridising exact and metaheuristics methods (fancy name = matheuristics) for the Bus Driver Scheduling Problem.
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Pronunciation of my name
Since I've been asked sometimes, I'll write about the pronunciation of my name.
I've pronounced my name with a voiced "s" [tom'mazo] for my entire life. After I moved to Vienna, I discovered that many Italians (especially from the south of Italy) pronounce my name with a voiceless "s" [tom'maso].
Apparently, this is a common phenomenon in regional Italian, similar to what happens with Standard German's /z/ (like in "seit" [zait]) vs Standard Austrian German's /s/ ("seit" [sait]), although there are exceptions.
By the way, I don't really care about the "correct" pronunciation. In fact, I'm amused and interested in listening to people from other parts of the world pronouncing my name in different ways :)