Agenda

Friday, September 26, 2025
8AM - 7PM PST

• 8:00 AM - 8:45 AM

  Registration & Check-in
• 8:45 AM - 8:50 AM

  Official Welcome/greeting to the INFORMS Conference + Informal instructions

  Host: Quico Spaen

• 9:05 AM - 9:08 AM

  UC Berkeley Welcome Address

  Host: Dr. Alper Atamturk

• 9:08 AM - 9:10 AM

  Introduction to the Keynote

  Host: Dhanashree Lele

• 9:10 AM - 9:55 AM

  Conference Keynote

  Neural Operators for AI+Science: Pushing the Frontiers of Scientific Discovery
  

  Dr. Anima Anandkumar, Bren Professor CalTech

• 9:55 AM - 10:05 AM

  ICCRC info session

  Host: Vinod Cheriyan

• 9:55 AM - 10:05 AM

  Small Refreshment Break
• 10:05 AM - 10:40 AM

  Featured Talk 1

  Trustworthy Data Agents on an Efficient Inference Platform

  Dr. Anupam Datta, Principal Scientist Snowflake

• 10:40 AM - 11:25 AM

  Featured Talk 2

  How to collaborate with an AI assistant to structure complex decision models with influence diagrams

  Dr. Max Henrion, Lumina Decision Systems

• 11:25 AM - 11:35 AM

  Break
• 11:35 AM - 12:15 PM

  Technical Panel Discussion

  The Future of AI & OR Convergence: How AI and OR Together Redefine Decision-Making

  Panel Moderators: Dhanashree Lele, Vinod Cheriyan

  Panelists:

  • Subramanian Iyer
  • Yu Zhang (Assistant Professor, UC Santa Cruz)
  • Aravind Govindarajan (Director of Data Science, Target)
  • Carlos Zetina (FICO)
• 12:15 PM - 12:50 PM

  Lunch Break
• 12:50 PM - 1:20 PM

  Optional Speed networking for students + practitioners
• 1:30 PM - 2:10 PM

  Business panel discussion

  The Future of Work: How AI/OR Integration Will Reshape Roles and Skills?

  Panel Moderator: Vivek Pandit

  Panelists:

  • Keith Dierkx (Principal at Princeton Consultants)
  • Rajat Verma (Sr Staff PM, ServiceNow)
  • Tingting Lin (Lead PM, SAP)
• 2:15 PM - 2:30 PM

  Lightning Talk 1

  Hexaly: A super-fast, super-scalable optimization solver

  Host: Tony Qin

  Fred Gardi (CEO, Hexaly)

• 2:35 PM - 2:50 PM

  Lightning Talk 2

  Introducing a novel decision space learning framework for efficiently solving mixed-integer linear programs (MILPs)

  Host: Tony Qin

  Yadong (Jeff) Zhang (PhD student, Vanderbilt University)

• 2:55 PM - 3:10 PM

  Lightning Talk 3

  Decomposing the Mix: A Bayesian Distillation Framework for Audience-Level Media Mix Models and Budget Optimization

  Host: Tony Qin

  David Nnamdi (Sr Data Scientist, Intuit)

• 3:15 PM - 3:30 PM

  Lightning Talk 4

  Attribution models that integrate deep learning architectures with optimization principles

  Host: Tony Qin

  Dmitrii Timoshenko (Applied Scientist, AWS)

• 3:35 PM - 3:50 PM

  Lightning Talk 5

  The Current Impact of GPUs and Quantum Computers on Mathematical Optimization

  Host: Tony Qin

  Dr. Ed Klotz, Gurobi Optimization

• 3:50 PM - 4:00 PM

  Break for Refreshments
• 4:00 PM - 4:40 PM

  Fireside Chat

  What Executives Really Want from AI & OR

  Hosts: Shubhangi Deshpande, Quico Spaen

  Panelist: Dr. Phil Kaminsky, Senior Principal Scientist Amazon

• 4:40 PM - 5:00 PM

  Closing Address
• 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM

  Networking + Happy Hour

  At Alumni House Patio