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Past Seminars

Past Seminars

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2022

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Specialization/ Area of Resarch	Title
2022-01-21	Joohyun Kim	Department of Operations Research and Engineering Management, Southern Methodist University		Optimization of Consumer-Producer Storage in Renewable Energy Markets: A Mean Field Approach
2022-01-19	Hanzhang Qin	Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems, MIT		A New Approach for Vehicle Routing with Stochastic Demand: Combining Route Assignment with Process Flexibility
2022-01-17	Paola Martin	McCombs School of Business, University of Texas at Austin		Trade Credit and Sales Data Visibility
2022-01-11	Yue Hu	Graduate School of Business, Columbia Business School		Prediction-Driven Surge Planning with Application in the Emergency Department

2021

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Specialization/ Area of Resarch	Title
2021-05-14	Ruxian Wang	Carey Business School, Johns Hopkins University		Hybrid Search and Choice Framework: Modeling, Optimization and Estimation
2021-05-11	Sirisha Rambhatla	Department of Computer Science, University of Southern California		Provably Learning from Data: New Algorithms and Models for Matrix and Tensor Decompositions
2021-05-05	Takanori Fujiwara	Department of Computer Science, University of California		Comparative Analysis with Intelligent Visual Interfaces
2021-05-04	Lei Cao	Data Systems and AI Lab, MIT		Seminar cancelled
2021-04-30	Chen Ma	School of Computer Science, McGill University		Towards Effective Recommendation: Auxiliary Data and Personalized Hyper-parameter Learning
2021-04-12	Alison Olechowski	Troost Institute for Leadership Education in Engineering, University Toronto		The Future of Design of Physical Products: Studies of Collaborative Virtual Engineering Teams
2021-2-22	Francois Lafond	Smith School for Enterprise and the Environment University of Oxford		Can stimulating demand drive costs down? World War II as a natural experiment

2020

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Specialization/ Area of Resarch	Title
2020-12-14	Dr. Atalay Atasu	Georgia Institute of Technology, Scheller College of Business	Operations Research	Leasing, Modularity and Circular Economy
2020-11-09	Dr. Dilip Soman	Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto	Behavioural Economics	Scaling Choice Architecture Interventions

2019

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Specialization/Area of Research	Title
2019-11-25	Ilbin Lee	University of Alberta	Operations Research	Is Separately Modeling Subpopulations Beneficial for Sequential Decision-Making?
2019-10-28	Stefan Nickel	Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)	Operations Research	The Day After Optimal: Operations Research for Modern Logistics
2019-10-21	Maxwell Ramstead	McGill University	Philosophy, Neuroscience, Psychiatry	Active Inference Across Scales: From the Brain to the Body and Culture
2019-10-11	Daria Terkhov	Department of Mechanical, Industrial and Aerospace Engineering; Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science, Concordia University	Operations Research	Inverse Optimization, Machine Learning, and the Operations Research Challenge (Torch)
2019-09-30	Kyle Booth	Mechanical & Industrial Engineering, University of Toronto	Operations Research	Exact Methods for Solving Electric Vehicle Routing Problems
2019-09-23	Dr. Dror Hermel	Sun Life	Operations Research	Can Coupons Counteract Strategic Consumer Behavior?
2019-09-16	Dr. Sean Zhou	Chinese University of Hong Kong	Operations Research	Multilocation Newsvendor Problem: Centralization and Inventory Pooling
2019-05-21	Dr. Régis Chenavaz	KEDGE Business School	Economics	When Does Eco-Efficiency Rebound or Backfire? An Analytical Model
2019-05-13	Dr. Shota Ichihashi	The Bank of Canada	Economics	Online Privacy and Information Disclosure by Consumers
2019-03-14	Dr. Merve Bodur	Mechanical & Industrial Engineering, University of Toronto	Operations research	Two-stage (Dual) Linear Decision Rules for Multi-stage Stochastic (Integer) Programming

2018

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Area	Title
2018-11-26	Dr. Yiqiang Q. Zhao	School of Mathematics and Statistics, Carleton University	Operations Research	Optimal Trading Under the Mean-Quadratic Criterion
2018-11-19	Dr. Armann Ingolfsson	Alberta School of Business	Operations research	Comparison of Fluid Approximations for Service Systems with State-Dependent Service Rates and Return Probabilities
2018-10-29	Dr. Jingui Xie	School of Management, University of Science and Technology of China	Operations research	The Analytics of Bed Shortages: Coherent Metric, Prediction and Optimization
2018-10-19	Dr. Mahdi Roghanizad	Adjunct professor at Ivey Business School	Information systems/Organizational behaviour	Predicting Cooperativeness: The Medium is the Message
2018-06-19	Dr. Oleg Prokopyev	University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA	Industrial Engineering	Sequential Interdiction with Incomplete Information and Learning
2018-06-11	Dr. Pinar Keskinocak	Georgia tech, H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial Engineering, Atlanta, Georgia	Industrial and Systems Engineering	Quantitative Models Embedded in Decision-Support Tools for Healthcare Applications
2018-05-28	Dr. Evrim Didem Gunes	Koc University, Istanbul, Turkey	Operations Research	Modelling the use of Patient Activation Measure (PAM) in Chronic Care Management
2018-05-14	Dr. Kathleen M. Carly	Carnegie Mellon University	Computer Science/Organisational Behaviour	Wisdom & Ignorance: Managing and Manipulation Groups through Heedful Interaction
2018-04-17	Dr. Jose Oliveira	University of Porto, Industrial Engineering and Management Department, Portugal	Operations Research	Waste Minimization: The Contribution of Cutting and Packing Problems for a More Competitive and Environmentally Friendly Industry
2018-03-26	Dr. Jonathan Y. Li	University of Ottawa	Operations Research	Optimization for Measuring Risk in Stochastic Programs
2018-03-12	Dr. Sebastien Lahaie	Google	Operations Research/Computational Economics	Testing Incentive Compatibility in Display Ad Auctions