Annual Ross B. Corotis Lecture: Pascal Van Hentenryck

Description

Pascal Van Hentenryck, chair and professor at Georgia Institute of Technology's H. Milton Steward School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, will give this year's Corotis Lecture titled "AI Engineering for Societal Impact." The lecture is hosted by the Department of Civil and Systems Engineering. Van Hentenryck is also director of the National Science Foundation Artificial Intelligence Institute for Advances in Optimization and the director of Tech-AI, the artificial intelligence hub at Georgia Tech.

A reception follows the lecture.

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.