Advice From the Academic Job Search Panel
I attended the Academic Job Search Panel (MC94), moderated by Warren Hearnes, with panelists Karmel S. Shehadeh, Thiago Serra, Opher Baron, Kejia Hu, Priyank Arora, and Haifeng Wang. Many of the panelists had recently been on the job market. They had excellent insights on both skills needed for the academic job market and the personal […]
2019 Wagner Prize Winner Reprise – AI at Work
You may never have heard of DIDI, but they are a ride sharing company like Uber and Lyft operating around the world. They provide on the order of 10 Billion rides per year. One of the core algorithms used in this industry is the matching algorithm that assigns drivers to riders. A simple solution is […]
Rusty Tool Boxes vs Thor’s Hammer
While at the conference someone asked me how I determined the research questions which drove my current presentations. I think there are two ways to look at picking research questions. You start with the tool and you want to make it better. Sometimes you want to build the ultimate hammer aka Thor’s Hammer (for all […]
FAQ: Data analytics careers in Agriculture
During the past two days, my colleagues and I have had the great pleasure of connecting with many talented students and young professionals. These interactions make attending – and sponsoring – the INFORMS Annual Meeting incredibly rewarding. During the course of these conversations – with individuals representing diverse backgrounds, experiences and interests – I’ve found […]
Networking Reception
Any guesses which networking reception is the most popular here at the INFORMS? Many lined up to get in because the restaurant hit the capacity. Yes, it was Women in OR/MS reception. With this popularity of WORMS Networking Reception I believe its membership is going to skyrocket. Anyone can become WORMS member, it is open […]
Plenary: The Parametric Self-Dual Simplex Method – A Modern Perspective
By Amira Hijazi In his plenary talk, Dr. Robert J. Vanderbei, Professor of Operations Research and Financial Engineering at Princeton University, presents the parametric self-dual simplex method (PSD). With a room full of audience, Dr. Vanderbei starts his talk by defining the method and explaining how different it is from other variants of simplex method. […]
Healthcare Modeling and Optimization VIII
By Amira Hijazi Operations research and analytics are powerful tools that can be used to model, analyze, and improve almost every aspect of life. Today’s session, “Health Care Modeling and Optimization VIII,” included six talks with a goal of using O.R. and analytics to help improve healthcare: starting with Dr. Zlatana Nenova, with a focus […]
Law and Fairness in O.R.
By Aida Rahmattalabi There is a rising interest in understanding the issues surrounding fairness. The session “Law and Fairness in OR” hosted a series of great talks that focused on this topic. The talks approached the problem of fairness from different angles. In particular, Valerie Thomas introduced a broad overview of fairness and she provided […]
The National Science Foundation (NSF) I
By Violet Chen The National Science Foundation (NSF) is one of the major federal organizations granting funding for research projects conducted by the INFORMS community. On Monday afternoon, Dr. Rance Cleaveland, Division Director of Computing and Communication Foundations (CCF) at the NSF, gave an informative talk about the Computing and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) […]