Overview
Held each fall, the annual meeting brings together over 6,000 people to the world's largest operations research and analytics conference. It features more than 800 sessions and presentations, opportunities to meet with leading companies, universities and other exhibitors, an onsite career fair connecting top talent with over 100 organizations at the forefront of O.R. and analytics application, and other networking and educational events. The theme for the INFORMS Annual Meeting this year is “Smarter Decisions for a Better World” which encapsulates the core ethos of the organization and the mission it strives to achieve.
Sponsorship Details
Amazon organizing committee
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INFORMS President Elect & Keynote Panel Moderator -
INFORMS Program Co-Chair & Keynote Panel Speaker -
INFORMS TutORial Session Co-Chair -
INFORMS Community Session Co-Chair -
INFORMS Community Cluster Chair
Keynotes & Colloquiums
INFORMS 2025 Doctoral Student Colloquium (DSC)
October 25, 8:00 AM - 5:45 PM EDT
Website: Link
Presentations:
"Industry Job Search and Early Career Advice", 11:30 - 12:30pm, presented by Yigit M. Arisoy, Kiran Chahar, James Hungerford, Andreea Popescu
"Academia or Industry?", 1:45 - 2:45pm, presented by Ken Fordyce, Philip Kaminsky, and Ioana Mazare
Room: TBA
Presentations:
"Industry Job Search and Early Career Advice", 11:30 - 12:30pm, presented by Yigit M. Arisoy, Kiran Chahar, James Hungerford, Andreea Popescu
"Academia or Industry?", 1:45 - 2:45pm, presented by Ken Fordyce, Philip Kaminsky, and Ioana Mazare
Room: TBA
OR/MS in an Ever-Evolving Environment: Perspectives from INFORMS Fellows
October 27, 5:45 PM - 6:45 PM EDT
INFORMS Keynote Fellows Panel
Website: Link
Room: Bldg A Lvl 4 A411
The INFORMS Fellows represent a set of community leaders from a broad swath of INFORMS members. Come hear from some of these leaders in our field about what they view as the current and future of OR/MS. We have gathered four INFORMS Fellows with broad range of experience and knowledge for a panel discussion.
Topics may include:
1. AI in teaching, publishing
2. Connections between industry/academia
3. Reduced access to federal funding
4. The most interesting research directions in…optimization, stochastics?
5. What tools will be the most useful for students in supply chain, health care, finance, service systems?
Website: Link
Room: Bldg A Lvl 4 A411
The INFORMS Fellows represent a set of community leaders from a broad swath of INFORMS members. Come hear from some of these leaders in our field about what they view as the current and future of OR/MS. We have gathered four INFORMS Fellows with broad range of experience and knowledge for a panel discussion.
Topics may include:
1. AI in teaching, publishing
2. Connections between industry/academia
3. Reduced access to federal funding
4. The most interesting research directions in…optimization, stochastics?
5. What tools will be the most useful for students in supply chain, health care, finance, service systems?
Sessions
The 20th INFORMS Workshop on Data Mining and Decision Analytics
October 25, 7:00 AM - 5:00 PM EDT
Website: Link
Presentations: "Industry Panel Session", 2:30 - 3:00pm, presented by Lili Zhang, Yigit Arisoy, and Saman Alani-Azar
Room: Bldg B Room B314
Presentations: "Industry Panel Session", 2:30 - 3:00pm, presented by Lili Zhang, Yigit Arisoy, and Saman Alani-Azar
Room: Bldg B Room B314
Labor Planning and UTR Process Optimization
October 26, 8:00 AM - 9:15 AM EDT
Website: Link
Session Chair: Elcin Cetinkaya
Presentations:
"Optimizing the allocation of outbound work to constrained resources in Amazon Fulfillment Centers", 8:00 - 8:15am, presented by Kevin Bunn
"Prior day labor planning in Amazon Fulfillment Center", 8:15 - 8:30am, presented by Yingqiu Zhang and Andy Johnson
"Optimizing order picking for Amazon Robotics Fulfillment Centers", 8:30 - 8:45am, presented by Ignacio Neira
"Robust and interpretable outbound resource plans", 8:45 - 9:00am, presented by Aaron Herman
"Computer vision integrated warehouse emulation for bulk package flow", 9:00 - 9:15am, presented by Sumant Joshi and Chin-Yuan Tseng
Room: Bldg A Lvl 4 A403
Session Chair: Elcin Cetinkaya
Presentations:
"Optimizing the allocation of outbound work to constrained resources in Amazon Fulfillment Centers", 8:00 - 8:15am, presented by Kevin Bunn
"Prior day labor planning in Amazon Fulfillment Center", 8:15 - 8:30am, presented by Yingqiu Zhang and Andy Johnson
"Optimizing order picking for Amazon Robotics Fulfillment Centers", 8:30 - 8:45am, presented by Ignacio Neira
"Robust and interpretable outbound resource plans", 8:45 - 9:00am, presented by Aaron Herman
"Computer vision integrated warehouse emulation for bulk package flow", 9:00 - 9:15am, presented by Sumant Joshi and Chin-Yuan Tseng
Room: Bldg A Lvl 4 A403
Reliable and Resilient Facility Logistics
October 26, 8:00 AM - 9:15 AM EDT
Website: Link
Session Chair: Ritesh Ojha
Presentation:
"Robust outbound load planning with volume splitting for parcel carriers", 8:45 - 9:00am, presented by Ritesh Ojha
Room: Bldg A Lvl 4 A411
Session Chair: Ritesh Ojha
Presentation:
"Robust outbound load planning with volume splitting for parcel carriers", 8:45 - 9:00am, presented by Ritesh Ojha
Room: Bldg A Lvl 4 A411
Market Design, Sustainability, and the Environment
October 26, 8:00 AM - 9:45 AM EDT
Website: Link
Presentations:
"Impact of the maintenance in power plants and data-driven optimal maintenance scheduling", 9:00 - 9:15am, presented by Abdullah Coskun
Room: Bldg B Lvl 3 B315
Presentations:
"Impact of the maintenance in power plants and data-driven optimal maintenance scheduling", 9:00 - 9:15am, presented by Abdullah Coskun
Room: Bldg B Lvl 3 B315
Inventory Management at Amazon
October 26, 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM EDT
Website: Link
Session Chair: Chun Ye
Presentations:
"Managing inventory flows in a multi-echelon network - A simulation study", 11:00 - 11:18am, presented by Zihao Li
"Inventory placement planning - Overcoming the limitations of product grouping", 11:18 - 11:36am, presented by Ishan Bansal
"Optimizing inventory placement in speed-sensitive fulfillment networks with consumer substitution behavior", 11:36 - 11:54am, presented by Katja Meuche, Cristiana Lara, Louis Faugere, and Benoit Montreuil
"Inventory placement optimization with value function approximations", 11:54 - 12:12pm, presented by Chun Ye
Room: Bldg A Lvl 4 A403
Session Chair: Chun Ye
Presentations:
"Managing inventory flows in a multi-echelon network - A simulation study", 11:00 - 11:18am, presented by Zihao Li
"Inventory placement planning - Overcoming the limitations of product grouping", 11:18 - 11:36am, presented by Ishan Bansal
"Optimizing inventory placement in speed-sensitive fulfillment networks with consumer substitution behavior", 11:36 - 11:54am, presented by Katja Meuche, Cristiana Lara, Louis Faugere, and Benoit Montreuil
"Inventory placement optimization with value function approximations", 11:54 - 12:12pm, presented by Chun Ye
Room: Bldg A Lvl 4 A403
Optimization and Analytics for Decision-Making in Healthcare
October 26, 1:15 PM - 2:30 PM EDT
Website: Link
Presentations:
"Inventory optimization for pharmaceutical fulfillment networks: A predictive and prescriptive analysis at Amazon Pharmacy", 1:33 - 1:45pm, presented by Yinsheng Wang, Alexandre Alves, Pierre Bhoorasingh, Cristobal Pais, Xin Tang, and Shan Liu
Room: Bldg B Lvl 3 B303
Presentations:
"Inventory optimization for pharmaceutical fulfillment networks: A predictive and prescriptive analysis at Amazon Pharmacy", 1:33 - 1:45pm, presented by Yinsheng Wang, Alexandre Alves, Pierre Bhoorasingh, Cristobal Pais, Xin Tang, and Shan Liu
Room: Bldg B Lvl 3 B303
Inbound Supply Chain Planning and Execution
October 26, 1:15 PM - 2:30 PM EDT
Website: Link
Session Chair: Daniel Ulch
Presentations:
"Amazon distribution centers picking optimization", 1:15 - 1:40pm, presented by Prem Kumar Viswanathan and Shuocheng Guo
"Inbound inventory allocation in a tiered fulfillment network with storage distribution centers", 1:40 - 2:05pm, presented by Tolga Cezik, Di Wu, Stephen Graves, Daniel Chen, and Jason Acimovic
"When to split: Optimizing container breaking and inventory distribution decisions in an inbound supply chain", 2:05 - 2:30pm, presented by Daniel Ulch and Marcus Poggi
Room: Bldg A Lvl 4 A403
Session Chair: Daniel Ulch
Presentations:
"Amazon distribution centers picking optimization", 1:15 - 1:40pm, presented by Prem Kumar Viswanathan and Shuocheng Guo
"Inbound inventory allocation in a tiered fulfillment network with storage distribution centers", 1:40 - 2:05pm, presented by Tolga Cezik, Di Wu, Stephen Graves, Daniel Chen, and Jason Acimovic
"When to split: Optimizing container breaking and inventory distribution decisions in an inbound supply chain", 2:05 - 2:30pm, presented by Daniel Ulch and Marcus Poggi
Room: Bldg A Lvl 4 A403
Optimal Sourcing at Amazon
October 26, 1:15 PM - 2:30 PM EDT
Website: Link
Session Chair: Ozge Sahin
Presentations:
"Just-in-time-aware long lead buying policy", 1:15 - 1:30pm, presented by Muhong Zhang, Yuguang Wu, Xiuli Chao, and Huseyin Topaloglu
"Title TBD", 1:30 - 1:45pm, presented by Thiago Mosqueiro
"Multi-period optimization models for distribution center inventory management under uncertainty", 1:45 - 2:00pm, presented by Caner Taskin and Alp Muharremoglu
"Structure-informed deep reinforcement learning for inventory management", 2:00 - 2:15pm, presented by Alvaro Maggiar
"Pareto Frontier profiling for order assignment optimization at Amazon", 2:15 - 2:30pm, presented by Neo Huang, Sherief Reda, Jikai Zou, and Andrea Qualizza
Room: Bldg A Lvl 4 A402
Session Chair: Ozge Sahin
Presentations:
"Just-in-time-aware long lead buying policy", 1:15 - 1:30pm, presented by Muhong Zhang, Yuguang Wu, Xiuli Chao, and Huseyin Topaloglu
"Title TBD", 1:30 - 1:45pm, presented by Thiago Mosqueiro
"Multi-period optimization models for distribution center inventory management under uncertainty", 1:45 - 2:00pm, presented by Caner Taskin and Alp Muharremoglu
"Structure-informed deep reinforcement learning for inventory management", 2:00 - 2:15pm, presented by Alvaro Maggiar
"Pareto Frontier profiling for order assignment optimization at Amazon", 2:15 - 2:30pm, presented by Neo Huang, Sherief Reda, Jikai Zou, and Andrea Qualizza
Room: Bldg A Lvl 4 A402
Innovations in Fulfillment and Logistics Operations
October 26, 2:45 PM - 4:00 PM EDT
Website: Link
Session Chair: Opu Islam
Presentations:
"Optimizing pick operations through distributed inventory assignment in fulfillment centers", 2:45 - 3:00pm, presented by Opu Islam, Michael Caldara, and Mouhacine Benosman
"Scheduling jobs for print on demand", 3:00 - 3:15pm, presented by Alfredo Nantes, Prem Viswanathan, and Yaoguang Zhai
"Optimizing delivery speed through shipping incentives", 3:15 - 3:30pm, presented by Prasanna Venkatesh Ramadas, Bhaskar Vooradi, and Krishna Pendyala
Room: Bldg A Lvl 4 A402
Session Chair: Opu Islam
Presentations:
"Optimizing pick operations through distributed inventory assignment in fulfillment centers", 2:45 - 3:00pm, presented by Opu Islam, Michael Caldara, and Mouhacine Benosman
"Scheduling jobs for print on demand", 3:00 - 3:15pm, presented by Alfredo Nantes, Prem Viswanathan, and Yaoguang Zhai
"Optimizing delivery speed through shipping incentives", 3:15 - 3:30pm, presented by Prasanna Venkatesh Ramadas, Bhaskar Vooradi, and Krishna Pendyala
Room: Bldg A Lvl 4 A402
TSL Data-driven Research Challenge (Award Session 1)
October 26, 2:45 PM - 4:00 PM EDT
Website: Link
Presentations:
"Data-driven optimization for meal delivery: A reinforcement learning approach for order-courier assignment and routing at Meituan", 2:45 - 3:03pm, presented by Ramon Auad, Tomas Lagos, and Felipe Lagos
Room: Bldg A Lvl 4 A407
Presentations:
"Data-driven optimization for meal delivery: A reinforcement learning approach for order-courier assignment and routing at Meituan", 2:45 - 3:03pm, presented by Ramon Auad, Tomas Lagos, and Felipe Lagos
Room: Bldg A Lvl 4 A407
Last Mile Planning and Operations
October 26, 4:15 PM - 5:30 PM EDT
Website: Link
Session Chair: Chengliang Zhang
Presentations:
"Labor capacity planning in last-mile operations", 4:15 - 4:33pm, presented by Chengliang Zhang and Luying Sun
"Robotic solution to improve transportation utilization", 4:33 - 4:51pm, presented by Zhikun Gao, Andrew Bruce, and Jochen Koenemann
"Sequential testing for operations experiments and resource ramp up", 4:51 - 5:09pm, presented by Brayan Ortiz
"Closing the gap between scheduling and execution of under the roof processes", 5:09 - 5:27pm, presented by Nikolaos Lappas
Room: Bldg A Lvl 4 A403
Session Chair: Chengliang Zhang
Presentations:
"Labor capacity planning in last-mile operations", 4:15 - 4:33pm, presented by Chengliang Zhang and Luying Sun
"Robotic solution to improve transportation utilization", 4:33 - 4:51pm, presented by Zhikun Gao, Andrew Bruce, and Jochen Koenemann
"Sequential testing for operations experiments and resource ramp up", 4:51 - 5:09pm, presented by Brayan Ortiz
"Closing the gap between scheduling and execution of under the roof processes", 5:09 - 5:27pm, presented by Nikolaos Lappas
Room: Bldg A Lvl 4 A403
Thriving in Industry: Leveraging AI and Analytics for Career Success
October 26, 4:15 PM - 5:30 PM EDT
Website: Link
Panelists: Jia Liu, Shixiang Woody Zhu, Yigit Arisoy, Shan Ba, Ryan Lekivetz, Liu Richard, and Xin Ma
Room: Bldg A Lvl 3 A302
Panelists: Jia Liu, Shixiang Woody Zhu, Yigit Arisoy, Shan Ba, Ryan Lekivetz, Liu Richard, and Xin Ma
Room: Bldg A Lvl 3 A302
Edelman Finalist Reprise
October 27, 8:00 AM - 9:15 AM EDT
Website: Link
Presentations:
"Regionalize and scale: Amazon network design for faster and cheaper delivery", 8:35 - 9:10am, presented by Cristiana Lara, Ling Zhang, and Shahbaaz Mubeen
Room: Bldg A Lvl 4 A402
Presentations:
"Regionalize and scale: Amazon network design for faster and cheaper delivery", 8:35 - 9:10am, presented by Cristiana Lara, Ling Zhang, and Shahbaaz Mubeen
Room: Bldg A Lvl 4 A402
Re-Inventing Labor Planning at Amazon
October 27, 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM EDT
Website: Link
Session Chair: Martin Savelsbergh
Presentations:
"Associate capacity forecasting", 11:00 - 11:15am, presented by Selin Tosun and Jeronimo Callejas
"Optimizing capacity: Workforce regionalization", 11:15 - 11:30am, presented by Hadi Panahi, Jeronimo Callejas, and Rachel Rutkowski
"Optimizing labor use and availability on the day of operations", 11:30 - 11:45am, presented by Nayeon Kim, Ramon Auad, and Zeynep Sargut
"Conceptualizing labor planning as a dynamic process: Developing a versatile qualitative dataset to support Large Language Models", 11:45 - 12:00pm, presented by Alana Scholl
"Large Language Models for model exploitability: A use-case in labor planning", 12:00 - 12:15pm, presented by Anis Ben Said, Roman Levkin, Thomas Fillebeen, David Dong, and Brian Salisbury
Room: Bldg A Lvl 4 A407
Session Chair: Martin Savelsbergh
Presentations:
"Associate capacity forecasting", 11:00 - 11:15am, presented by Selin Tosun and Jeronimo Callejas
"Optimizing capacity: Workforce regionalization", 11:15 - 11:30am, presented by Hadi Panahi, Jeronimo Callejas, and Rachel Rutkowski
"Optimizing labor use and availability on the day of operations", 11:30 - 11:45am, presented by Nayeon Kim, Ramon Auad, and Zeynep Sargut
"Conceptualizing labor planning as a dynamic process: Developing a versatile qualitative dataset to support Large Language Models", 11:45 - 12:00pm, presented by Alana Scholl
"Large Language Models for model exploitability: A use-case in labor planning", 12:00 - 12:15pm, presented by Anis Ben Said, Roman Levkin, Thomas Fillebeen, David Dong, and Brian Salisbury
Room: Bldg A Lvl 4 A407
Site Capacity Management & Optimization
October 27, 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM EDT
Website: Link
Session Chair: Francisco Castillo Zunino
Presentations:
"An unconstrained very short term forecast for the Amazon Fulfillment Network", 11:00 - 11:25am, presented by Filippo Fedeli, Thomas Ovestad, Giorgio Polla, Nicholas Richardson, Inaki Estella Aguerri
"Site capacity optimization: Defining operational capacity frontiers", 11:25 - 11:50am, presented by Francisco Castillo Zunino, Matias Siebert, Filippo Fedeli, Inaki Estella Aguerri, and Dajun Yue
"Comprehensive capacity optimization of the Amazon Transportation Network", 11:50 - 12:15pm, presented by Marc Christian Bataillou Almagro
Room: Bldg A Lvl 4 A403
Session Chair: Francisco Castillo Zunino
Presentations:
"An unconstrained very short term forecast for the Amazon Fulfillment Network", 11:00 - 11:25am, presented by Filippo Fedeli, Thomas Ovestad, Giorgio Polla, Nicholas Richardson, Inaki Estella Aguerri
"Site capacity optimization: Defining operational capacity frontiers", 11:25 - 11:50am, presented by Francisco Castillo Zunino, Matias Siebert, Filippo Fedeli, Inaki Estella Aguerri, and Dajun Yue
"Comprehensive capacity optimization of the Amazon Transportation Network", 11:50 - 12:15pm, presented by Marc Christian Bataillou Almagro
Room: Bldg A Lvl 4 A403
Re-Inventing Labor Planning at Amazon
October 27, 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM EDT
Website: Link
Session Chair: Martin Savelsbergh
Presentations:
"Associate capacity forecasting", 11:00 - 11:15am, presented by Selin Tosun and Jeronimo Callejas
"Optimizing capacity: Workforce regionalization", 11:15 - 11:30am, presented by Hadi Panahi, Jeronimo Callejas, and Rachel Rutkowski
"Optimizing labor use and availability on the day of operations", 11:30 - 11:45am, presented by Nayeon Kim, Ramon Auad, and Zeynep Sargut
"Conceptualizing labor planning as a dynamic process: Developing a versatile qualitative dataset to support Large Language Models", 11:45 - 12:00pm, presented by Alana Scholl
"Large Language Models for model exploitability: A use-case in labor planning", 12:00 - 12:15pm, presented by Anis Ben Said, Roman Levkin, Thomas Fillebeen, David Dong, and Brian Salisbury
Room: Bldg A Lvl 4 A407
Session Chair: Martin Savelsbergh
Presentations:
"Associate capacity forecasting", 11:00 - 11:15am, presented by Selin Tosun and Jeronimo Callejas
"Optimizing capacity: Workforce regionalization", 11:15 - 11:30am, presented by Hadi Panahi, Jeronimo Callejas, and Rachel Rutkowski
"Optimizing labor use and availability on the day of operations", 11:30 - 11:45am, presented by Nayeon Kim, Ramon Auad, and Zeynep Sargut
"Conceptualizing labor planning as a dynamic process: Developing a versatile qualitative dataset to support Large Language Models", 11:45 - 12:00pm, presented by Alana Scholl
"Large Language Models for model exploitability: A use-case in labor planning", 12:00 - 12:15pm, presented by Anis Ben Said, Roman Levkin, Thomas Fillebeen, David Dong, and Brian Salisbury
Room: Bldg A Lvl 4 A407
Supply Chain Optimization at Amazon
October 27, 1:15 PM - 2:30 PM EDT
Website: Link
Session Chair: Garrett van Ryzin
Presentations:
"Vendor collaboration using consensus planning", 1:15 - 1:33pm, presented by Garrett van Ryzin
"Controlling Cube Per Package under capacity-demand mismatch", 1:33 - 1:51pm, presented by Harprinderjot Singh, Yufei Wang, and Arun Jotshi
"Multiple Response Agents: Fast, feasible, approximate primal recovery for dual optimization methods", 1:51 - 2:09pm, presented by Tetiana Parshakova, Yicheng Bai, Garrett van Ryzin, and Stephen Boyd
"Multi-objective optimization in assortment planning for speed deliveries", 2:09 - 2:27pm, presented by Ozan Candogan, Lijuan Bitoun, Jonathan Jonker, and Nanjing Jian
Room: Bldg A Lvl 4 A402
Session Chair: Garrett van Ryzin
Presentations:
"Vendor collaboration using consensus planning", 1:15 - 1:33pm, presented by Garrett van Ryzin
"Controlling Cube Per Package under capacity-demand mismatch", 1:33 - 1:51pm, presented by Harprinderjot Singh, Yufei Wang, and Arun Jotshi
"Multiple Response Agents: Fast, feasible, approximate primal recovery for dual optimization methods", 1:51 - 2:09pm, presented by Tetiana Parshakova, Yicheng Bai, Garrett van Ryzin, and Stephen Boyd
"Multi-objective optimization in assortment planning for speed deliveries", 2:09 - 2:27pm, presented by Ozan Candogan, Lijuan Bitoun, Jonathan Jonker, and Nanjing Jian
Room: Bldg A Lvl 4 A402
Emerging Applications of Optimization
October 27, 1:15 PM - 2:30 PM EDT
Website: Link
Session Chair: Taghi Khaniyev
Presentations:
"Optimizing over Graph Neural Networks with an application to optimal brain tumor resection", 1:30 - 1:45pm, presented by Kaan Cakiroglu, Taghi Khaniyev, Ozlem Karsu, and Sahin Hanalioglu
"Personalized brain parcellation via optimizing topological symmetry", 1:45 - 2:00pm, presented by Taghi Khaniyev, Ugur Sorar, Egemen Gok, Efecan Cekic, Kaan Cakiroglu, and Sahin Hanalioglu
"A metamodel-based general-purpose calibration tool for simulation models", 2:15 - 2:30pm, presented by Elif Sena Isik, Taghi Khaniyev, Turgay Ayer, Jagpreet Chhatwal, and Ismail Fatih Yildirim
Room: Bldg B Lvl 2 B201
Session Chair: Taghi Khaniyev
Presentations:
"Optimizing over Graph Neural Networks with an application to optimal brain tumor resection", 1:30 - 1:45pm, presented by Kaan Cakiroglu, Taghi Khaniyev, Ozlem Karsu, and Sahin Hanalioglu
"Personalized brain parcellation via optimizing topological symmetry", 1:45 - 2:00pm, presented by Taghi Khaniyev, Ugur Sorar, Egemen Gok, Efecan Cekic, Kaan Cakiroglu, and Sahin Hanalioglu
"A metamodel-based general-purpose calibration tool for simulation models", 2:15 - 2:30pm, presented by Elif Sena Isik, Taghi Khaniyev, Turgay Ayer, Jagpreet Chhatwal, and Ismail Fatih Yildirim
Room: Bldg B Lvl 2 B201
Open Energy Modeling
October 27, 1:15 PM - 2:30 PM EDT
Website: Link
Presentations:
"PyPSA on the cloud: Easy on-demand scaling for open energy models", 1:27 - 1:39pm, presented by Satheesh Maheswaran and Soham Garg
Room: Bldg B Lvl 2 B203
Presentations:
"PyPSA on the cloud: Easy on-demand scaling for open energy models", 1:27 - 1:39pm, presented by Satheesh Maheswaran and Soham Garg
Room: Bldg B Lvl 2 B203
Forecasting and Optimization Methods and Models for Last Mile Operations
October 27, 4:15 PM - 5:30 PM EDT
Website: Link
Session Chair: Yaniv Mordecai
Presentations:
"ForeScaling: Time series forecast scaling strategies for mega-models", 4:15 - 4:27pm, presented by Yaniv Mordecai
"Large-scale hierarchical forecast reconciliation", 4:27 - 4:39pm, presented by Chinmoy Mohapatra, Abhilasha Katariya, and Yaniv Mordecai
"AI Agentic work flows", 4:39 - 4:51pm, presented by Arkajyoti Misra
"Jurisdiction models", 4:51 - 5:03pm, presented by Dipal Gupta
"Exploring the AI frontier in optimization research", 5:03 - 5:15pm, presented by Michael Wagner and Rohit Malshe
"Optimization models explained - Optix", 5:15 - 5:27pm, presented by Gokce Kahvecioglu, Jin Ye, and Ling Zhang
Room: Bldg A Lvl 4 A402
Session Chair: Yaniv Mordecai
Presentations:
"ForeScaling: Time series forecast scaling strategies for mega-models", 4:15 - 4:27pm, presented by Yaniv Mordecai
"Large-scale hierarchical forecast reconciliation", 4:27 - 4:39pm, presented by Chinmoy Mohapatra, Abhilasha Katariya, and Yaniv Mordecai
"AI Agentic work flows", 4:39 - 4:51pm, presented by Arkajyoti Misra
"Jurisdiction models", 4:51 - 5:03pm, presented by Dipal Gupta
"Exploring the AI frontier in optimization research", 5:03 - 5:15pm, presented by Michael Wagner and Rohit Malshe
"Optimization models explained - Optix", 5:15 - 5:27pm, presented by Gokce Kahvecioglu, Jin Ye, and Ling Zhang
Room: Bldg A Lvl 4 A402
Market Design, Platforms, and Matching Markets
October 27, 4:15 PM - 5:30 PM EDT
Website: Link
Presentations:
"Personalization vs. marketplace diversity: How recommendation algorithms shape pricing, participation, and consumer search", 4:51 - 5:09pm, presented by Anil Omer Saritac, Nur Kaynar, and Ozge Sahin
Room: Bldg B Lvl 3 B311
Presentations:
"Personalization vs. marketplace diversity: How recommendation algorithms shape pricing, participation, and consumer search", 4:51 - 5:09pm, presented by Anil Omer Saritac, Nur Kaynar, and Ozge Sahin
Room: Bldg B Lvl 3 B311
GPU Acceleration of Optimization Algorithms I
October 27, 4:15 PM - 5:30 PM EDT
GPU Acceleration of Optimization Algorithms II
October 28, 8:00 AM - 9:15 AM EDT
Amazon Last Mile Planning
October 28, 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM EDT
Website: Link
Session Chair: Liron Yedidsion
Presentations:
"Just-in-Time-Aware Long Lead Buying Policy", 11:00 - 11:15am, presented by Yuguang Wu
"Prize collecting traveling salesmen problem, and application of KDTrees for fast computation", 11:15 - 11:30am, presented by Rohit Malshe and Michael Wagner
"Optimizing channel allocation in last mile delivery network", 11:30 - 11:45am, presented by Gokce Kahvecioglu and Jin Ye
"Fleet Allocation and Balancing of branded vehicles, electric vehicles and rentals", 11:45 - 12:00pm, presented by Ram Thiruveedhi, Abhilasha Katariya, Xiaodong Lan, Hugh Medal, and Animesh Biyani
"Multi-period newsvendor for capacity planning", 12:00 - 12:15pm, presented by Liron Yedidsion and Chinmoy Mohapatra
Room: Bldg A Lvl 4 A402
Session Chair: Liron Yedidsion
Presentations:
"Just-in-Time-Aware Long Lead Buying Policy", 11:00 - 11:15am, presented by Yuguang Wu
"Prize collecting traveling salesmen problem, and application of KDTrees for fast computation", 11:15 - 11:30am, presented by Rohit Malshe and Michael Wagner
"Optimizing channel allocation in last mile delivery network", 11:30 - 11:45am, presented by Gokce Kahvecioglu and Jin Ye
"Fleet Allocation and Balancing of branded vehicles, electric vehicles and rentals", 11:45 - 12:00pm, presented by Ram Thiruveedhi, Abhilasha Katariya, Xiaodong Lan, Hugh Medal, and Animesh Biyani
"Multi-period newsvendor for capacity planning", 12:00 - 12:15pm, presented by Liron Yedidsion and Chinmoy Mohapatra
Room: Bldg A Lvl 4 A402
Emerging Topics in Platform Operations and Retail
October 28, 1:15 PM - 2:30 PM EDT
Website: Link
Presentations:
"Assortment optimization, price competition and fairness", 2:15 - 2:30pm, presented by Wentao Lu, Ozge Sahin, and Ruxian Wang
Room: Bldg B Lvl 3 B311
Presentations:
"Assortment optimization, price competition and fairness", 2:15 - 2:30pm, presented by Wentao Lu, Ozge Sahin, and Ruxian Wang
Room: Bldg B Lvl 3 B311
Advanced Analytics
October 28, 2:45 PM - 4:00 PM EDT
Website: Link
Presentations:
"Parametric workload distribution for balanced optimization: Theory and application", 3:39 - 3:48pm, presented by Abhay Singh Bhadoriya
Room: Bldg A Lvl 4 A409
Presentations:
"Parametric workload distribution for balanced optimization: Theory and application", 3:39 - 3:48pm, presented by Abhay Singh Bhadoriya
Room: Bldg A Lvl 4 A409
Coordinated Planning in Complex Transport Networks
October 28, 2:45 PM - 4:00 PM EDT
Website: Link
Presentations:
"Dynamic fleet allocation for last-mile delivery networks", 3:48 - 3:57pm, presented by Bhargav Ganguly, John Phelix, Andre Snoeck, Jin Ye, and Daniel Merchan
Room: Bldg A Lvl 3 A314
Presentations:
"Dynamic fleet allocation for last-mile delivery networks", 3:48 - 3:57pm, presented by Bhargav Ganguly, John Phelix, Andre Snoeck, Jin Ye, and Daniel Merchan
Room: Bldg A Lvl 3 A314
Supply Chain Applications of Large-Scale Discrete Optimization
October 28, 4:15 PM - 5:30 PM EDT
Website: Link
Session Chairs: Madison Van Dyk and Cristiana Lara
Presentations:
"Algorithms for hub location with network connectivity constraints", 4:15 - 4:30pm, presented by Ozgun Elci
"The single-vehicle routing problem with precedence constraints", 4:30 - 4:45pm, presented by Qie He, Michael Rice, and Renato Werneck
"Large-scale resource allocation: A column generation multi-device GPU based algorithm", 4:45 - 5:00pm, presented by Marcus Poggi, Qi Chen, Ozlem Bilginer, Granville Paules, and Zsolt Csizmadia
"GPU acceleration of first order methods for large scale resource assignment - Benchmark platform and results", 5:00 - 5:15pm, presented by Qi Chen, Ozlem Bilginer, Marcus Poggi, Zsolt Csizmadia, and Granville Paules
Room: Bldg B Lvl 2 B213
Session Chairs: Madison Van Dyk and Cristiana Lara
Presentations:
"Algorithms for hub location with network connectivity constraints", 4:15 - 4:30pm, presented by Ozgun Elci
"The single-vehicle routing problem with precedence constraints", 4:30 - 4:45pm, presented by Qie He, Michael Rice, and Renato Werneck
"Large-scale resource allocation: A column generation multi-device GPU based algorithm", 4:45 - 5:00pm, presented by Marcus Poggi, Qi Chen, Ozlem Bilginer, Granville Paules, and Zsolt Csizmadia
"GPU acceleration of first order methods for large scale resource assignment - Benchmark platform and results", 5:00 - 5:15pm, presented by Qi Chen, Ozlem Bilginer, Marcus Poggi, Zsolt Csizmadia, and Granville Paules
Room: Bldg B Lvl 2 B213
Coordination in E-Commerce Supply Chains
October 29, 8:00 AM - 9:15 AM EDT
Sustainable Supply Chain Management
October 29, 8:00 AM - 9:15 AM EDT
Website: Link
Presentations:
"Analyzing the impact of sustainability drivers in Amazon's supply chain management: A DEMATEL approach", 8:09 - 8:18am, presented by Sayan Banerjee
Room: Bldg B Lvl 3 B304
Presentations:
"Analyzing the impact of sustainability drivers in Amazon's supply chain management: A DEMATEL approach", 8:09 - 8:18am, presented by Sayan Banerjee
Room: Bldg B Lvl 3 B304
Emerging Topics in Responsible and Sustainable Operations
October 29, 8:00 AM - 9:15 AM EDT
Website: Link
Presentations:
"Electric vehicle charging station access sharing and economics implication", 8:45 - 9:00am, presented by Yuan Ma, Roman Kapuscinski, and Ozge Sahin
Room: Bldg B Lvl 3 B312
Presentations:
"Electric vehicle charging station access sharing and economics implication", 8:45 - 9:00am, presented by Yuan Ma, Roman Kapuscinski, and Ozge Sahin
Room: Bldg B Lvl 3 B312
Location and Routing
October 29, 9:30 AM - 10:45 AM EDT
Website: Link
Presentations:
"Evaluating innovation adoption factors in Amazon's last mile delivery: A DEMATEL study", 9:48 - 9:57am, presented by Sayan Banerjee
"Charge planning for a dedicated electric delivery fleet", 10:24 - 10:33am, presented by Rami Sleiman, Andre Snoeck, and Arun Akkinepally
Room: Bldg A Lvl 4 A401
Presentations:
"Evaluating innovation adoption factors in Amazon's last mile delivery: A DEMATEL study", 9:48 - 9:57am, presented by Sayan Banerjee
"Charge planning for a dedicated electric delivery fleet", 10:24 - 10:33am, presented by Rami Sleiman, Andre Snoeck, and Arun Akkinepally
Room: Bldg A Lvl 4 A401
Transportation Systems
October 29, 9:30 AM - 10:45 AM EDT
Website: Link
Presentations:
"Transforming Amazon's last-mile delivery with optimization-based route allocation", 10:24 - 10:33am, presented by Ling Zhang, Gokce Kahvecioglu, and Jin Ye
Room: Bldg A Lvl 4 A411
Presentations:
"Transforming Amazon's last-mile delivery with optimization-based route allocation", 10:24 - 10:33am, presented by Ling Zhang, Gokce Kahvecioglu, and Jin Ye
Room: Bldg A Lvl 4 A411
Logistics and Distribution Networks
October 29, 9:30 AM - 10:45 AM EDT
Website: Link
Presentations:
"Optimization-based consolidation engine for last mile delivery", 10:06 - 10:15am, presented by Hao Zhou
"AwESM: Informing energy-aware last mile strategic network design", 10:15 - 10:24am, presented by Harry Birnbaum, Andre Snoeck, Nic Wayand, and Daniel Merchan
Room: Bldg A Lvl 4 A404
Presentations:
"Optimization-based consolidation engine for last mile delivery", 10:06 - 10:15am, presented by Hao Zhou
"AwESM: Informing energy-aware last mile strategic network design", 10:15 - 10:24am, presented by Harry Birnbaum, Andre Snoeck, Nic Wayand, and Daniel Merchan
Room: Bldg A Lvl 4 A404
AI in Financial and Technical Applications
October 29, 9:30 AM - 10:45 AM EDT
Website: Link
Presentations:
"INSPIRE: INtelligent Safety and Performance Interior Cabin Rating Engine", 10:24 - 10:33am, presented by Girik Malik and Jin Ye
Room: Bldg B Lvl 4 B403
Presentations:
"INSPIRE: INtelligent Safety and Performance Interior Cabin Rating Engine", 10:24 - 10:33am, presented by Girik Malik and Jin Ye
Room: Bldg B Lvl 4 B403
