Meet and Greet with Prof. Archis Ghate

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

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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.