Category: News
MARTA Reach in the Press
MARTA Reach has been running for about a month now, serving riders in three areas of the Atlanta metropolitan region. Here are some press release about the project.
HerWILL Datathon for Women of Color
Check the HerWILL datathon for All Women of Color in USA & Bangladesh to explore the world of data science. Supported by the South Big Data Innovation Hub and the NSF AI Institute AI4OPT
Computing in Engineering Forum
Pascal Van Hentenryck will deliver a keynote at the Computing in Engineering Forum at the University of Wisconsin in Madison in September 2022.
MARTA Reach: Metrolab Innovation of the Month
Check this GovTech article for more information on MARTA Reach. The pilot started on March 1st, 2022 in three zones in Atlanta, Georgia. See also the one-slide description.
Keynote at the INFORMS Optimization Society Conference
Check the 2022 INFORMS Optimization Society Conference. The theme is of the conference is “bridging data and decision making” and I will giving a plenary talk on “Machine Learning and Optimization for Engineering.
Best Paper Award in the IEEE Transactions on Power Systems
Check our paper
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- V. Dvorkin, Jr., F. Fioretto, P. Van Hentenryck, P. Pinson, and J. Kazempour, “Differentially private optimal power flow for distribution grids,” IEEE Trans. Power Syst., vol. 36, no. 3, pp. 2186–2196, May 2021, doi: 10.1109/TPWRS.2020.3031314.
It won a best paper award for the IEEE Transactions on Power Systems.
AI Institute for Advances in Optimization
A team led by Pascal Van Hentenryck, A. Russell Chandler III Chair and professor in Georgia Tech’s H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISyE), has been awarded a five-year, $20 million grant by the National Science Foundation (NSF) to fund the NSF Artificial Intelligence (AI) Institute for Advances in Optimization (AI4OPT). AI4OPT will focus on bringing together the fields of artificial intelligence and mathematical optimization to achieve research breakthroughs in automated decision making that could not be attained separately.
Seth Bonder Camp Expands Reach and Representation
Check out this article describing how the Seth Bonder camp is expanding its reach and representation, teaching high-school students in California and Puerto Rico and collaborating with Kids Teach Tech.
Undergraduate Prizes
Congratulations to Mark Lim and Tejas Santanam who won two undergraduate prizes this year. Both Mark and Tejas work in the socially-aware mobility group and are of course phenomenal.
- Tejas: ISyE Alpha Pi Mu Academic Excellence Award.
- Mark: IISE Outstanding Senior Award.