Wolfram will serve on the 2026 INFORMS Computing Society Prize Committee.
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Factored MDPs
Wolfram was giving a talk on Factored MDPs at the Banff Workshop on Contextual Stochastic Optimization on Wed, Feb 25th, 2026.
Data-Driven and Robust MDPs
Wolfram gave a keynote talk on Data-Driven and Robust Markov Decision Processes at the 10th AIROYoung Workshop and Ph.D. School organized in Padova (Italy) on 9–13 February 2026.
It’s All in the Mix: Wasserstein Classification and Regression with Mixed Features
Our paper It’s All in the Mix: Wasserstein Classification and Regression with Mixed Features, authored by Reza, Aras and Wolfram, has been accepted at Manufacturing & Service Operations Management.
A Note on Piecewise Affine Decision Rules for Robust, Stochastic, and Data-Driven Optimization
Our paper A Note on Piecewise Affine Decision Rules for Robust, Stochastic, and Data-Driven Optimization, co-authored with Simon Thomä (RWTH Aachen) and Max Schiffer (TU Munich), has been accepted at Operations Research.
Dantzig Dissertation Award Finalist
Aras’ PhD thesis has been selected as one of four finalists for the Dantzig Dissertation Award. Very well done, Aras!
Congratulations Dr Zhengchao!
Dr Zhengchao Wang passed his viva! His thesis, “Decision Making under Uncertainty: Randomization,Online Learning, and Applications”, studies robust optimisation, optimal randomisation, and multi-armed bandit problems with applications to assortment optimisation and non-profit campaigning. Very well done, Dr Zhengchao! Zhengchao will stay with our group for (unfortunately only) a short while as a post-doctoral researcher while… Read more »
Congratulations Dr Aras!
Dr Aras Selvi passed his viva! His thesis, “Models and Algorithms for Safeguarded Data-Driven Decision Making”, studies optimal ethical decision-making (most notably, differential privacy and optimal and fair housing), robust machine learning (Wasserstein mixed-feature models and ambiguity sets constructed from intersections of Wasserstein balls), as well as novel techniques to tackle convex maximisation problems. Very well… Read more »
Recent Trends in Vehicle Routing under Uncertainty
Wolfram gave a keynote talk on Recent Trends in Vehicle Routing under Uncertainty at the 9th meeting of the EURO working group on Vehicle Routing and Logistics optimization (VeRoLog) organized in Trento (Italy) on 16-19 June 2025. More details can be found here.
Factored Markov Decision Processes
Wolfram gave a talk on Factored Markov Decision Processes at the Antai College of Economics and Management, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, on June 4, 2025 (online).
