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Two of our papers got accepted as posters for the 33rd Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), taking place Dec 8th-14th, 2019, in Vancouver: Distributionally Optimistic Optimization Approach to Nonparametric Likelihood Approximation and Calculating Optimistic Likelihoods Using (Geodesically) Convex Optimization. Both papers were written by Viet Anh Nguyen, Soroosh Shafieezadeh-Abadeh and Daniel Kuhn from EPFL as well as Man-Chung… Read more »

At the The 15th International Conference on Stochastic Programming in Trondheim, Wolfram has been elected into the governing board of the Stochastic Programming Society. The Stochastic Programming Society promotes the development and application of stochastic programming theory, models, methods, analysis, software tools and standards, and encourages the exchange of information among practitioners and scholars in the area… Read more »

Wolfram joined the Scientific Committee of the 15th tri-annual International Conference on Stochastic Programming (ICSP) taking place July 29 – August 2, 2019 in Trondheim, Norway.

Our paper K-Adaptability in Two-Stage Mixed-Integer Robust Optimization has been accepted for publication at Mathematical Programming Computation. A draft version of the paper can be found here.

Our paper The Distributionally Robust Chance Constrained Vehicle Routing Problem has been accepted for publication at Operations Research. A draft version of the paper can be found here.

Wolfram gave an invited seminar on Distributionally Robust Vehicle Routing at TU Eindhoven on Jun 20th, 2019.

Three of our group members have secured faculty positions in this year’s hiring season: Clint starts as an Assistant Professor at the School of Data Science, City University of Hong Kong; Zhi starts as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Management Sciences, City University of Hong Kong, and Man Chung starts as an Assistant… Read more »

Wolfram has been selected as winner of this year’s President’s Awards for Outstanding Early Career Research. More information about the awards can be found here.

Esma won the prestigious Imperial College Student Academic Choice Award in the category “Best Graduate Teaching Assistant”. The award is university-wide and given out to one person per year only. Well done, Esma!

Wolfram gave an invited seminar on Distributionally Robust Vehicle Routing at Erasmus University Rotterdam on Mar 22nd, 2019.