Operations Research and Machine Learning have applications in a wide variety of industries such as supply chain, healthcare, transportation, manufacturing etc. OR and ML touch many aspects of an airline passenger’s journey from start to end. In this presentation, we are going to peak behind the curtain and talk about some of these applications to see how OR and ML improve passenger experience and increase airline efficiencies.

Dr. Deepak Agrawal is a Sr. Operations Research Consultant at American Airlines, where has been working for 4 years. Dr. Agrawal has a PhD in Industrial Engineering from Penn State, was a Graduate Research Intern at Geinsinger, and has bachelor's and master's degrees  from  the prestigious IIT (Indian Institute of Technology).