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Prof. Mor Armony

Prof. Mor ArmonyProfessor, New York UniversityTalk: Pooling Queues with Work-Averse ServersAbstract:Contrary to the classical theory of operations management, recent case studies in healthcare, call centers, and retail indicate that pooling queues may not necessarily result in less expected work in process. In this paper, we propose that this phenomenon may arise when servers are work averse an...

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Prof. Siddhartha Banerjee

Prof. Siddhartha BanerjeeAssistant Professor, Cornell UniversityTalk: Optimization and Market Design in Shared Vehicle SystemsAbstract:Shared vehicle systems, such as those for bike-sharing (e.g., Citi Bike in NYC, Velib in Paris), car-sharing (e.g., car2go, Zipcar) and ridesharing (Uber, Lyft, etc.) are fast becoming essential components of the urban transit infrastructure. The technology behi...

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Prof. Xi Chen

Prof. Xi ChenAssistant professor, New York UniversityTalk: Sequential Analysis for Crowd Labeling and RankingAbstract:This talk proposes new sequential analysis models and methods motivated by crowdsourcing applications. We consider both crowdsourced binary labeling tasks and ranking tasks, where the requestor needs to decide which worker (or which pair of objects) for labeling and when to stop...

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Prof. Adam Elmachtoub

Prof. Adam ElmachtoubAssistant Professor, Columbia UniversityTalk: The value of opaque productsAbstract:A product is said to be opaque if one or more of its attributes are not revealed until after the product has been sold. Opaque products have historically been used in the travel industry where airline and hotel brands might be hidden to the customer, in exchange for a discount. More recently,...

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Prof. Dongdong Ge

Prof. Dongdong GeProfessor, Shanghai University of Finance and EconomicsTalk:Challenges and Opportunities for OR/OM in the A.I. eraAbstract:This talk shares the speaker's experience, confusion and efforts to answer the recent challenges in teaching and research arising from OR/ OM fields due to the coming A.I. era. We try to explain from our observation what happened and what is happening in re...

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Prof. David Goldber

Prof. David GoldbergAssistant Professor, Georgia TechTalk: Simple and explicit bounds for multi-server queues with universal 1/(1 - rho) (and better) scalingAbstract:The First-Come-First-Serve multi-server queue is a fundamental building block of many models in operations management and operations research. In 1962, John Kingman proved a simple and explicit bound for the steady-state number of ...

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Prof. Henry Lam

Prof. Henry LamAssistant Professor, University of MichiganTalk: Pooling Queues with Work-Averse ServersAbstract:We discuss a statistical framework to integrate data into optimization under uncertain constraints, via the use of suitably constructed robust optimization (RO) that provides inner approximation to a benchmark chance-constrained problem. The framework is based on learning a prediction...

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Prof. J. George Shanthikumar

J. George Shanthikumar Professor, Purdue University Title: Applications of Joint Stochastic Orders in Arrangement and Allocation

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Prof. Jeannette Song

    Prof. Jeannette SongProfessor, Duke UniversityTalk:Long Term Partnership for Achieving Efficient Capacity AllocationAbstract:We consider a manufacturer and a group of independent buyers who partner to share a scarce but expensive-to-build capacity over a finite horizon under privately informed demand conditions. At the beginning of the time horizon, the manufacturer must invest in building...

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Prof. Van-Anh Truong

Prof. Van-Anh TruongAssistant Professor, Columbia UniversityTalk: Dynamic Optimization of Mobile Push Advertising CampaignsAbstract:We study a novel resource-allocation problem faced by Alibaba Group. In this problem, mobile “push messages” must be sent over the course of a day to hundreds of millions of users. Each message can be sent to any number of users, and yields a reward when it gener...

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Prof. Yehua Wei

Prof. Yehua WeiAssistant Professor, Boston CollegeTalk: Process Flexibility for Multi-Period Production SystemsAbstract:In this talk, I will present some new theories we developed for process flexibility in a multi-period make-to-order production (MTO) system. First, we propose and formalize a notion of ``effective chaining" termed the Generalized Chaining Gap (GCG), which can be viewed as a na...

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Prof. Kuang Xu

Prof. Kuang XuAssistant Professor, Stanford UniversityTalk: On the Capacity of Information Processing SystemsAbstract:We propose and analyze a family of information processing systems, where a finite set of experts or servers are employed to extract information about a stream of incoming jobs. Each job is associated with a hidden label drawn from some prior distribution. An inspection by an exp...

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