2024 Ross B. Corotis Lecture
Pascal Van Hentenryck
A. Russell Chandler III Chair and Professor
H. Milton Steward School of Industrial and Systems Engineering
Georgia Tech
AI Engineering for Societal Impact
Wednesday, November 6, 2024
5:30-6:30 p.m.
Space Telescope Science Institute, John Bahcall Auditorium
Reception to Follow (by RSVP only)
AI Engineering for Societal Impact
The fusion of AI 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 (AI4OPT), 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).