Department of Computer, Control and Management Engineering

She received her Master degree in Electronic Engineering summa cum laude in 1990 and her Ph.D. degree in Operations Research in 1995 from the Sapienza University of Roma. She has been a professor in the School of since 2000 and a faculty member at DIS since 1996. 
Palagi’s research focus is mainly on continuous optimization. Among the main research interest:

• Algorithm for the solution of special class of Semidefinite Programming Problems (SDP);
• Decomposition methods for constrained problems arising in training Support Vector Machines;
• Solution Techniques for Standard Quadratic Problems (StQP);
• Algorithms for the solution of quadratrically constrained problems
• Local algorithm for general nonlinear programming Problems (NLP);
• Continuous differentiable Merit functions
• Global convergent for general nonlinear programming Problems (NLP).

More recent research topics are Mixed intenger Nonlinear Problems (MINLP) and definition ofBranch and Bound schemes using SDP bound for MaxCut.
She teaches basic courses on Operations Research and Optimization for BS and advaced course for MS programs. She also organizes and teaches courses in PhD programs.