

CANCELLED / Jong-Shi Pang, a professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering at University of Southern California, will give a talk on the topic: "Heaviside Composite Optimization: Continuous meets Discrete"


Emma Frejinger, a professor in the Department of Computer Science and Operations Research at Université de Montréal, will present "A Model-Free Approach for Solving Choice-Based Competitive Facility Location Problems Using Simulation and Submodularity"


Lei Ying, professor at the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department of the University of Michigan will give talk on the topic: "Are CMDPs Fundamentally Harder than MDPs?"


Neil Walton, a Professor in Operations Management at Durham University Business School, will present “Exponential Concentration of Stochastic Approximation with Non-vanishing Gradient.”


Ayalvadi Ganesh, an Associate Professor at the School of Mathematics at University of Bristol, will give talk on topic: "Multi-Agent Multi-Armed Bandits"


Rui Gao, an Assistant Professor in the Department of Information, Risk, and Operations Management at the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin, will present "Optimal Robust Policy for Feature-Based Decision-Making."


Pascal Poupart, a Professor in the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science at the University of Waterloo (Canada), will present "Inverse Constraint learning for Autonomous Driving and Robotics."


Mohsen Bayati, professor in Operations, Information, and Technology at the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University and an Amazon Scholar, will present "A General Method for Experimentation Under Network Interference."


Akshay Krishnamurthym, principal research manager at Microsoft Research in New York City,


Anqi Wu to present on topic "Improving Variational Inference for Complex Probabilistic Modeling."


Mohit Prabhushankar to present on topic "Towards Robust Neural Networks: Explainability, Uncertainty, and Intervenability."


Jehum Cho, a Ph.D. candidate at the Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), UCLouvain, under the supervision of Anthony Papavasiliou will present on Exact Mixed-Integer Programming for Multi-Area Reserve Sizing.


Wim Nuijten presents on The Eindhoven Artificial Intelligence Systems Institute, Supply Chain Optimization, and Football during seminar series.


Jiaming Xu, associate professor at the Fuqua School of Business at Duke, presents during AI4OPT Tutorial Lectures


Thiago Serra, Bucknell University


Devavrat Shah of Massachusetts Institute of Technology will discuss the topic:On Counterfactual Inference With Unobserved Confounding via Exponential Family.


Eytan Modiano, MIT, will discuss topic: An Algorithm for Crowdsourcing With Hard and Easy Tasks.


Sanjay Shakkottai, University of Texas at Austin


Garud Iyengar, an operations professor, at Industrial Engineering and Operations Research at Columbia University will give talk on the topic: Scalable Computation of Causal Bounds


Rayadurgam Srikant, UIUC - University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign