Students

PhD students

• Merel Schalkers, since 2021, second supervisor

• Nando Leijenhorst, On the computation of three and four-point bounds in discrete geometry and analytic number theory, 2025 (Currently at CNRS Toulouse)

• Willem de Muinck Keizer, On zonal Stiefel harmonics with applications in discrete geometry, 2025 (Currently at Koninklijke Marine, Den Helder)

Master students

• Noud Bonke, Optimal Regularization for Wafer Alignment in Lithography, at ASML, 2025, see also this note (Currently at Optiver)

• Jasper Mulder, Forecast-Driven Vehicle Routing for B2B Food Delivery using Neural Networks, at ORTEC, 2025 (Currently at Argon&Co)

• Vincent Wassenaar, Behavioural biometrics for PIN authentication, at Ubiqu, 2025 (Currently at Ubiqu)

• Siem van Benthem, Track and Truth Correlation in Military Simulations, at TNO, 2024 (Currently at TNO)

• Ian Luik, People Scheduling Service: an Employee Scheduling Algorithm based on Stochastic Workloads, at Picnic, 2023 (Currently at BCG)

• Tim Driebergen, QAOA Mixing Hamiltonians for MinVertexCover, 2023, joint supervision with Matthias Möller (Currently at ASML)

• Dominic Eelkema, Convergence of the mixing method: An iterative algorithm for solving diagonally constrained semidefinite programs, 2022 (Currently at ASML)

• Nando Leijenhorst, A solver for clustered low-rank SDPs arising from multivariate polynomial (matrix) programs, 2021 (Currently at CNRS Toulouse)

• Merel Schalkers, Learning based hardware-centric quantum circuit generation, 2021, joint supervision with Matthias Möller (Currently at ASN Bank)

• Maaike Vollebergh, Incorporating flexible track use in the SAT model of the Dutch railway timetabling problem, at NS, 2020 (Currently at VU)

• Roy van Houte, Quantum Coin Flipping, at TNO, 2020 (Currently at KLM)

Bachelor students

• Guus van der Donk, Facial reduction and finding the dimension of the optimal face, 2025

• Leon van der Waal, On the Dual of the Lovász Theta Prime Number for the Disjunctive Product of Graphs, 2023

• Chai Fillerup, Classical simulations of quantum prepare and measure communication processes, 2022, joint supervision with Johannes Borregaard

• Zoya Polshchykova, Gate Set Tomography on the Nitrogen-Vacancy Center, 2022, joint supervision with Johannes Borregaard

• Benjamin Oudejans, Variational Quantum Algorithms for Optimizing Probe States, 2021, joint supervision with Johannes Borregaard

• Olaf de Vries, Clebsch-Gordan Coefficients: A Quantum Mechanical and Mathematical Perspective, 2021

• Vincent Goverse, First-order methods to recover the measurement operators and states of bipartite quantum correlations, 2021

• Jan Bosma, Geometry and Reconstruction of Bipartite Quantum Correlations, 2020

• Kishan Kalicharan, The little Grothendieck problem over the orthogonal group, 2014