About
Senior optimization. Bespoke. Swiss.
A senior team led by Dr. Tom Haering.
We are a consultancy with roots in operations research and decision intelligence, founded by Tom Haering after his PhD at EPFL. We keep the team deliberately lean — senior staff lead every engagement, and nothing gets handed off to a junior.
Dr. Haering completed his PhD in 2025 at EPFL's Transport and Mobility Laboratory under Prof. Michel Bierlaire, working at the intersection of discrete choice modeling, mixed-integer optimization, and decision-aided algorithms. His work has been published in OR Spectrum, Computers & Operations Research, and Transportation (Springer).
Before that, a Master's in Mathematics from ETH Zurich (Institute for Operations Research), with a thesis on portfolio optimization done in cooperation with swissQuant. Before that, an undergraduate background in mathematics and a fascination with building things in code that never went away.
He has supervised numerous master's and semester projects in optimization and transport modeling, taught decision-aid methodologies, and reviewed for international transportation journals. The point: when we say senior leadership, we mean it.
Education
PhD, EPFL · Transport & Mobility Laboratory (2025). MSc Mathematics, ETH Zürich · Institute for Operations Research.
Publications
Peer-reviewed in OR Spectrum, Computers & Operations Research, Transportation. 7+ technical reports and conference papers.
Teaching
EPFL teaching assistant in Decision-Aid Methodologies, Optimization, Mathematical Modeling of Behavior, and Discrete Choice.
Languages
English · German · French · Python · Gurobi · CP-SAT · Pyomo · OR-Tools · Biogeme.
Where
Headquartered between Lausanne and Zurich. Engagements globally, remote-first.
Style
We design around the actual decision. We deliver code that runs in production, not slides.