Seminar Series

ISE-613 / CSCI-613 Seminar in Operations Research and Artificial Intelligence

Catalogue Description. Current research, guest speakers in the field; review papers; guidance in preparing research proposals and special projects. Open only to those admitted to the ORAI certificate program. 

Learning Objectives. The ORAI Seminar series is a required component of the ORAI Interdisciplinary PhD program in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Operations Research (OR). The seminar will be held once a week during one semester each year. All students who are enrolled in the program will need to register for the seminar at least once. The seminar will involve a mix of:

1. Student presentations of cutting-edge papers at the interface of AI/OR

2. Presentations (often virtual) from leading researchers in interdisciplinary research in AI/OR

3. 5 workshops on each of the following topics:

   1. Team building

   2. Ethics in AI/OR

   3. Advanced training on human subjects (beyond just Citi training)

   4. Entrepreneurship

   5. Interdisciplinary research 

The seminar will complement in various ways the training that the students will receive in their courses by teaching them complementary skills. By the end of the course, students will be able to:

1. Describe cutting-edge research and open problems at the interface of AI and OR and using terminology and language from both fields

2. Be comfortable interacting with leading researchers in AI, OR, and their interface

3. Ethically and responsibly work in teams to engage in possible deployment and commercialization of technologies that integrate OR and AI to address problems that cannot currently be solved by any one discipline in isolation.

Such skills are an important part of their training and an important component of any NSF National Research Traineeship program such as the one that supports the creation of the ORAI program (see here: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2346058&HistoricalAwards=false)

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