2024 Ross B. Corotis Lecture: Pascal Van Hentenryck

Description

Pascal Van Hentenryck, chair and professor in Georgia Institute of Technology's H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, will give the Ross B. Corotis Lecture titled "AI Engineering for Societal Impact." The lecture is hosted by the Department of Civil and Systems Engineering.

Abstract:

The fusion of artificial intelligence with optimization and control has the potential to deliver outcomes that are beyond the realm of these technologies when applied independently on complex engineering applications. This talk reviews the theoretical foundations underlying this fusion, including the concepts of primal and dual optimization proxies, predict then optimize, self-supervised learning, and deep multi-stage policies. The presentation also highlights these methodological developments in sustainable supply chains, electrical power systems with massive shares of distributed energy resources, and transportation systems that may transform accessibility to jobs, education, and health care.

About Pascal Van Hentenryck:

Pascal Van Hentenryck is the A. Russell Chandler III chair and professor at Georgia Tech., the director of the NSF Artificial Intelligence Institute for Advances in Optimization, and the director of Tech-AI, the AI hub at Georgia Tech. Van Hentenryck's research focuses on artificial intelligence for engineering and science and, in particular, energy, supply chains and manufacturing, transportation, and health care. Earlier in his career, Van Hentenryck designed and implemented several widely used optimization systems, including the constraint-programming language CHIP (the foundation of modern constraint-programming systems) and the modeling language OPL (now an IBM product).