Workshops, Symposia, Summit Talks, & Panels

Workshop, Symposia, and Summit Talks

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12th Cargese-Porquerolles Workshop on Combinatorial Optimization focused on "Machine Learning & Discrete Optimization"

Porquerolles, France (Sept. 2023)

Learning optimal classification trees robust to distribution shifts

Mixed-Integer Programming (MIP) Workshop

University of Southern California (May 2023)

Integer optimization for machine learning in high-stakes domains

IPAM’s Workshop Artificial Intelligence and Discrete Optimization

IPAM Institute for Pure & Applied Mathematics, an NSF Math Institute at UCLA (Feb.-Mar. 2023)

Robustness, interpretability, and fairness in machine learning and resource allocation

Third Annual Responsible Machine Learning Virtual Summit, AI and Social Good

UC Santa Barbara Center for Responsible Machine Learning (CRML)

Department of Computer Science, College of Engineering  (Oct. 2021)

Data-driven decision-making for social impact

Virtual workshop on Artificial Intelligence/Operations Research

Sponsored by the Computing Community Consortium (CCC), the Institute for Operations Research and Management Science (INFORMS), 

and ACM SIGAI (Sep. 2021)

Designing efficient and equitable housing allocation policies from data collected in deployment

CAIS Symposium on Equity and AI, University of Southern California, LA (Apr. 2021)

Robust interventions in social services and conservation

Workshop on Optimization under Uncertainty, part of the thematic semester on "The Mathematics of Decision Making," 

Centre de Recherches Mathématiques (CRM), Montreal, QC (Sep. 2021)

Dealing with value disagreement in algorithmic systems via preference elicitation and aggregation

Interdisciplinary Workshop on "Algorithmic Ethics: Perspectives from Philosophy and Computer Science,"

University of Rochester (Online Workshop) (May 2020)

Two-stage robust optimization with decision-dependent information discovery

ICERM (Institute for Computational and Experimental Research in Mathematics) Workshop 

on Mathematical Optimization of Systems Impacted by Rare, High-Impact Random Events, Providence, RI (Jun. 2019)

Video. Video of my talk at ICERM Workshop on Mathematical Optimization of Systems Impacted by Rare, High-Impact Random Events, June 2019

Two-stage robust optimization with decision-dependent information discovery

Banff Workshop on "Models and Algorithms for Sequential Decision Problems under Uncertainty" (invited talk), Banff, AB (Jan. 2019)

Figure. Group photo at the Banff International Research Station, Jan. 2019

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Video. Video of my talk at BIRS Workshop on Sequential Decision Problems under Uncertainty

Artificial Intelligence for social good: the case of public health

Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Social Good

Microsoft Research India, Bangalore, IN (Oct. 2017)

Robust wait time estimation in resource allocation systems with application to kidney allocation

Workshop on Distributionally Robust Optimization

Banff International Research Station, Alberta, CN (Mar. 2018)

Figure. Group photo at the Banff International Research Station, March 2018

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Video.  Video of my talk at BIRS Workshop on Distributionally Robust Optimization

Robust wait time estimation in resource allocation systems with application to kidney allocation

Bay Area Optimization Meeting 2017 - From Data to Decisions, dedicated to Professor Roger J.-B. Wets on the occasion of his 80th birthday

University of California Davis, Davis, CA (May 2017)

Robust wait time estimation in resource allocation systems with application to kidney allocation

USC WiSE Research Symposium, Los Angeles, CA (Mar. 2017)

Robust wait time estimation in resource allocation systems with application to kidney allocation

SoCal OR/OM Day 2016, UC Irvine, Irvine, CA (May 2016)

Panels

Panelist for Tradeoffs of AI in Social Science with implications for Accuracy, Privacy, Equity

AAAI Workshop on AI for Behavior Change

AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, virtual (Feb. 2022)

Panelist for INFORMS Doctoral Student Colloquium "Job search" panel

INFORMS Annual Meeting (2019, 2020, 2021)

Panelist for Frontiers and potentials of AI techniques in social good domains

AI for Social Good Symposium organized by Carnegie Mellon University, virtual (Apr. 2020)

Figure. Presenting at the INFORMS New Facutly Colloquium "Interdisciplinary Research and Writing Collaborative Grants" panel at INFORMS 2019 Annual Meeting

Panelist for INFORMS New Faculty Colloquium "Interdisciplinary Research and Writing Collaborative Grants" panel 

INFORMS Annual Meeting (2019)