AI4OPT Director Pascal Van Hentenryck was invited to participate in the Day 2 keynote at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s two-day workshop, Integration of Artificial Intelligence in the Electricity System, joining leading experts shaping how AI can be responsibly integrated into the nation’s power systems.

As electricity systems become more complex, the workshop addressed critical questions around reliability, cybersecurity, governance, workforce readiness, and human oversight. Van Hentenryck brought AI4OPT’s expertise in AI-powered optimization to the conversation, highlighting how AI can learn from optimization problems that grid operators repeatedly solve to support faster, more effective decision-making.

His invitation as a keynote speaker underscores AI4OPT’s role in advancing AI and optimization research with direct relevance to critical infrastructure and the future of the electricity system. 

Click here to watch the panel discussion.