Jannis Kurtz

• Feb. 2026
  Our paper on counterfactual explanations for linear optimization problems is part of the EJOR Editors’ Choice Articles of January 2026. 

• Feb. 2026
  I will present our work on explainable optimization online at the Dutch Optimization Platform, an initiative of our group to connect to optimizers in the industry. If you are working for a company and are interested to join, please contact Dick den Hertog. 

• Jan. 2026
  Season 7 of the Robust Optimization Webinar started on Friday, Jannuary 23, with our first speaker Vineet Goyal.

• Nov 2025
  I will give an invited keynote talk at the CWI Workshop on Learned methods for operations research on deep learning enhanced methods for robust and bilevel optimization.

• Oct 2025
  I presented our works on explainability for integer optimization problems at the EURO Online Seminar Series on Operations Research and Machine Learning.

• Sep. 2025
  Our Explainable Optimization webpage is online! If you want  your publication, event or software package to be added please contact us on www.exporg.org.

Bounding the Optimal Number of Policies for Robust K-Adaptability.

Kurtz, J.  |  Mathematical Programming  |  2026

Counterfactual explanations for linear optimization.

Kurtz, J., Birbil, Ş. İ., & den Hertog, D.   |  European Journal of Operational Research, 329(1), 24-41  |  2025

Approximation Guarantees for Min-Max-Min Robust Optimization and-Adaptability Under Objective Uncertainty.

Kurtz, J.  |  SIAM Journal on Optimization, 34(2), 2121-2149   |  2024

Neur2BiLO: Neural Bilevel Optimization.

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

Neur2RO: Neural two-stage robust optimization.

Dumouchelle, J., Julien, E., Kurtz, J., & Khalil, E. B.  |  The Twelfth International Conference on Learning Representations  |  2024

Data-driven robust optimization using deep neural networks.

Goerigk, M., & Kurtz, J.  |  Computers & Operations Research, 151, 106087  |  2023

Min–max–min robust combinatorial optimization.

Buchheim, C., & Kurtz, J.  |  Mathematical Programming, 163(1), 1-23  |  2017