I am an assistant professor in the Business Analytics section of the Amsterdam Business School at the University of Amsterdam. I am co-organizer of the Robust Optimization Webinar (ROW) and involved in several initiatives such as the Explainable Optimization website and the Dutch Optimization Platform.
My research interests cover the development of theory and algorithms for optimization and machine learning models and their applications. Most of my projects fall within the following areas and their intersections:
Robust
Optimization
Bilevel
Optimization
Machine
Learning
Explainable
Optimization
Integer
Optimization
Operations
Research
Oct. 2026
I will give a talk about K-Adaptability for Robust Integer Optimization on the Mixed Integer Programming European Workshop 2026 in Rome.
Sep. 2026
I am attending the International Conference on Operations Research (OR 2026) in Passau, Germany. Please reach out if you would like to chat over a coffee.
June 2026
I am attending SIAM Conference on Optimization (SIOPT) in Edinburgh. I present my joint work with Bart van Parys (CWI) on Globalized Adversarial Regret Optimization (GARO).
Apr. 2026
I will give one of the keynote talks at the International Network Optimization Conference (INOC) in Liège about Explainable Optimization.
Apr. 2026
I will talk at the BeNeLux Mathematical Congress about Mixed-Integer Optimization and (Explainable) Artificial Intelligence.
Feb. 2026
Our paper on counterfactual explanations for linear optimization problems is part of the EJOR Editors’ Choice Articles of January 2026.
Kurtz, J. | Mathematical Programming | 2026
Kurtz, J., Birbil, Ş. İ., & den Hertog, D. | European Journal of Operational Research, 329(1), 24-41 | 2025
Kurtz, J. | SIAM Journal on Optimization, 34(2), 2121-2149 | 2024
Dumouchelle, J., Julien, E., Kurtz, J., & Khalil, E. B. | In Proceedings of the 38th International Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (pp. 86688-86719). | 2024
Dumouchelle, J., Julien, E., Kurtz, J., & Khalil, E. B. | The Twelfth International Conference on Learning Representations | 2024
Goerigk, M., & Kurtz, J. | Computers & Operations Research, 151, 106087 | 2023
Buchheim, C., & Kurtz, J. | Mathematical Programming, 163(1), 1-23 | 2017
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