Author: UTORG

We are hosting a workshop by Wix representatives on creating an online portfolio website. What will be covered:

• • • How to plan an academic/industry-oriented website
    • How to use the Wix platform for building your website
    • Explore professional design features
      You will discover the basics in creating a Wix website as well as features to take your portfolio to the next level.

A one-year FREE Wix premium plan + domain will be offered to all attendees! (Attendance is necessary for receiving the coupon.)

Date and time: March 9th, 2022 at 12-1pm EST
You will receive a Zoom link the day of the event.

Please register here by March 8th, 2022.

We are excited to host Ian Zhu, a Ph.D. candidate at University of Toronto. Join us for an engaging tutorial on Inverse Optimization, a highly sought-after topic of interest among operational researchers in recent years.

When: Friday Feb 18 @ 1:10pm – 2:00 pm Link: https://utoronto.zoom.us/j/83794834163

Abstract: In recent years, there has been an explosion of interest in the mathematics and applications of inverse optimization. This tutorial will introduce the topic using several motivating examples drawn from transportation, finance and healthcare. A basic inverse optimization formulation will be presented along with techniques for solving the problem. The tutorial will conclude by highlighting current research trends and exciting avenues for future research. Bio-sketch: Ian is a fourth-year Ph.D. candidate in Industrial Engineering at the University of Toronto. His research interests lie at the intersection of analytics, economics and optimization. He is currently working on developing new algorithms for inverse and robust optimization problems. In his spare time, he enjoys reading, being active, and once enjoyed traveling (when that was still possible).

 

The University of Toronto Operations Research Group (UTORG) is hosting a Meet & Greet with Prof. Archis Ghate, from Industrial & Systems Engineering Department at University of Washington, following his talk titled ‘Robust Markov Decision Processes with Data-Driven, Distance-Based Ambiguity Sets‘. We hope to see you there!

Please note that the Meet & Greet will follow immediately after the talk which will be held on October 21th, 12:10 – 1:00 PM EST. For more information regarding the talk, please visit here.

When: October 21th @ 12:10 – 1:00 PM EST Register here!

Bio-sketch: Archis Ghate is a Professor and Associate Chair in the Department of Industrial & Systems Engineering at the University of Washington in Seattle. He joined the University of Washington as an Assistant Professor in 2006 after receiving a PhD in Industrial and Operations Engineering from the University of Michigan in 2006, and an MS in Management Science and Engineering from Stanford in 2003. He completed his undergraduate education at the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India, in 2001. Archis is a recipient of the NSF CAREER award, and of the award for Excellence in Teaching Operations Research from the Institute of Industrial Engineers. Archis has served on the editorial boards of several journals. He served as the General Chair of the INFORMS 2019 Annual Meeting, and as a Program Co-Chair of the 2021 IISE Annual Conference.

 

The University of Toronto Operations Research Group (UTORG) is hosting a Meet & Greet with Dr. Elias Khalil, from MIE Department at UofT, following his talk titled ‘Deep Reinforcement Learning for Online Combinatorial Optimization: The Case of Bipartite Matching‘. We hope to see you there!

Please note that the Meet & Greet will follow immediately after the talk which will be held on October 7th, 12:10 – 1:00 PM EST. For more information regarding the talk, please visit here.

When: October 7th @ 12:10 – 1:00 PM EST Register here!

Bio-sketch: Elias B. Khalil is the Scale AI Research Chair in Data-Driven Algorithms for Modern Supply Chains, an Assistant Professor of Industrial Engineering at the University of Toronto, and a Faculty Affiliate of the Vector Institute. Prior to that, he was the IVADO Postdoctoral Scholar at Polytechnique Montréal. Elias obtained his Ph.D. from the College of Computing at Georgia Tech where he was an IBM Ph.D. Fellow in 2016. His research interests are in the integration of machine learning and discrete optimization to enable fast and optimal decision-making for supply chain planning and healthcare resource management.

 

We are excited to host Cheng Guo, a Ph.D. candidate at University of Toronto. Join us for an exceptional talk on Cheng’s recent experience in job market. She will provide information regarding job market timeline and application package as well as resources for academic job seekers. Additionally, she will give us some useful clues for a successful academic job interview and tips for negotiating new job offers.

When: Friday July 16 @ 1:00pm – 2:00 pm Link: https://utoronto.zoom.us/j/83794834163

Bio-sketch: Cheng Guo is a fourth-year Ph.D. student advised by Prof. Merve Bodur in the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at University of Toronto. In Fall 2021, she will start as an Assistant Professor in the School of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences at Clemson University. She received her B.A. in Economics and B.S. in Mathematics from Wuhan University, China and M.S. in Operations Research from Columbia University. Her research interests are in the intersection of optimization and economics, with a focus on integer/stochastic programming modeling, energy markets, and decomposition methods.