Register to attend the 2025 Douglas C. Montgomery Distinguished Lecture, April 18
Join us for this exciting lecture designed to advance the discussion of important topics in industrial engineering. Pascal Van Hentenryck, A. Russell Chandler III Chair and a professor of industrial and systems engineering at Georgia Tech, will address optimization learning, showing how this form of AI can be impactful in supply chain management, transportation systems and more.
About the lecture
AIforIE: Optimization learning for industrial engineering
The need for optimization is a theme that runs deeply through the study and development of artificial intelligence, especially in machine and reinforcement learning. In this lecture, Pascal Van Hentenryck will discuss his innovative work in optimization learning — the process of improving the performance of AI models — and its potential applications for industrial engineers.
This talk addresses how to speed up parametric optimization problems to meet real-time constraints present in many applications in energy systems, supply chains, logistics and transportation systems. It reviews the concept of optimization proxies that learn the input and output mappings of parametric optimization problems, computing near-optimal feasible solutions and providing quality guarantees. Van Hentenryck will also show how to “learn to optimize” highly complex optimization problems, merging optimization methodologies with supervised learning and reinforcement learning. The methodologies are highlighted using industrial problems in grid optimization, end-to-end supply chains and transportation systems.
About Pascal Van Hentenryck
Pascal Van Hentenryck is the director of Tech AI, which is the AI hub at Georgia Tech, the director of the National Science Foundation AI Institute for Advances in Optimization, or AI4OPT, and the A. Russell Chandler III Chair and a professor at Georgia Tech with appointments in the colleges of engineering and computing. He was a professor of computer science at Brown University for over 20 years and led the optimization research group at National ICT Australia. His current research focuses on AI for engineering, with applications in energy systems, supply chains, manufacturing, health care and mobility. Van Hentenryck is a pioneer of constraint programming, and he designed several innovative optimization systems that have been in commercial use for over 20 years. He is a fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence and the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences.
Douglas C. Montgomery Distinguished Lecture
Friday, April 18, 2025
3:30–4:30 p.m.
Artisan Courtyard at Brickyard (BYAC) 110, Tempe campus [map]