National Science Foundation II
By Amira Hijazi The National Science Foundation (NSF) provides several funding opportunities for ORMS people. In his talk, Dr. Jeryl L. Mumpower, presents some NSF programs that the ORMS community can benefit from: Decision, Risk, and Management Sciences: it supports research that explores fundamental issues in judgement and decision making, risk analysis, management science, and […]
Keynote: Personalized Policies: Theory and Application
By Aida Rahmattalabi With a world of data at our finger prints, there is a growing interest to utilize this data to train machine learning models that can automatically make predictions about future outcomes. These predictions are used by policymakers to solve various problems across society. One of the significant applications of machine learning concerns […]
A challenge to feed the world
As the 2019 INFORMS Annual Meeting draws to a close, I’m feeling particularly grateful for the wonderful conversations I’ve had with attendees during the past few days. I’m also thankful to have had the opportunity during today’s Ag cluster presentations to share my thoughts on an initiative that is near and dear to my heart: […]
Robust Optimization and Learning Under Uncertainty
By Aida Rahmattalabi Decision making in an uncertain world is a challenging problem both from modeling and optimization perspectives. In the session “Robust Optimization and Learning under Uncertainty,” some of these problems were discussed. The first talk was given by Han Yu, PhD student at the University of Southern California. In her talk, she introduced […]
Plenary: Planning Transportation Capacity at Amazon
By Violet Chen On Tuesday morning, a room full of participants joined Dr. Russell Allgor, Chief Scientist of WW Ops and AMZL at Amazon, to learn about how Amazon designs and operates its logistics network. Widely recognized for fast delivery and extensive product offerings, Amazon’s success is indispensable from an efficient, dynamic, and robust logistics […]
Operations/Economics Interface
By Violet Chen The Tuesday afternoon session on Operations and Economics Interface consisted of four talks; each integrates some economic concepts in operations questions. I am the first presenter of this session. My talk is based on a joint project with Dr. John Hooker titled “Combining Leximax Fairness and Utilitarianism in a Mathematical Programming Model.” […]
Improving the Allocation of Donor Organs: Treating to the Priority in Heart Transplantation
By Amira Hijazi Organ transplantation improves quality of life and saves around $300,000. The TA62 session held Tuesday morning involved different talks that share the same goal: improving the allocation of donor organs. Dr. Sait Tunc, Assistant Professor from Virginia Tech, started the session by presenting a queueing model to analyze the gaming decisions of […]
Recap of Tuesday’s General Member Meeting
Thank you to everyone who attended Tuesday night’s Member Meeting! As always, this event provided members and staff the opportunity to mingle and connect while hearing the latest news from INFORMS. The 2019 Annual Meeting has had a record-breaking attendance and it has been wonderful seeing so many new faces! Following opening remarks from the […]
Outstanding Mentors and Friends: 2019 INFORMS Volunteer Service Awards
Congratulations to Scott Nestler (Notre Dame Mendoza College of Business) and Stefan Karisch (Boeing) for receiving 2019 INFORMS Volunteer Service Awards! Both of these men are consummate analytics pros and are examples of what it means to be dedicated servant leaders, mentors, colleagues, and friends! I invite you to know them and other outstanding volunteers […]
Econometrics + Machine Learning
For me, the highlight of Tuesday was the keynote by Susan Athey “Learning Personalized Policies”. Susan is an incredibly versatile economist who is probably best known for merging two very different streams of research: causal inference in economics and machine learning in computer science. If you want a simple intro to this topic, this Science […]