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Optimization Meets Politics: Mathematical Models and a Practical Case Study in Political Redistricting - Rahul Swamy, UIUC, 11/10/2023

Over the last century, Operations Research (O.R.) has transformed numerous public sector domains such as healthcare and defense. This talk dives into how O.R. models such as integer…

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Optimized Item Selection to Boost Exploration for Recommender Systems - Serdar Kadioglu, Fidelity, 11/11/2022

Recommender systems are the backbone of personalized services that provide tailored experiences to individual users. Still, data sparsity remains a common challenge, especially for new…

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Supply Chain Resilience Requires Robust Information - Polly Mitchell-Guthrie and Erik Pulido, Kinaxis, 03/04/2022

Polly Mitchell-Guthrie (VP of Industry Outreach and Thought Leadership at Kinaxis) and Erik Pulido (Associate Solution Consultant at Kinaxis) discuss key data science skills, the role of…

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Fairmandering Generating Fairness optimized Political Districts - Wes Gurnee, MIT, 11/11/2021

The American winner-take-all congressional district system empowers politicians to engineer electoral outcomes by manipulating district boundaries. To date, computational solutions mostly focus…

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Sports Scheduling: Optimization and Analytics - Michael Trick, Carnegie Mellon University, 10/28/2021

Sports scheduling has been transformed over the last fifteen year. Prior to then, most sports leagues used hand-crafted schedules that met few of the needs of the leagues. Better computational…

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Decisions as Code: Systems Thinking, Optimization, and Computer Science - Carolyn Mooney, nextmv, 10/19/2021

Carolyn is CEO of Nextmv, a decision science startup building a developer-friendly decision stack. Previously, she analyzed simulations at Lockheed (missiles) and Zoomer (pizzas), and also ran…

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Digital, Data, and Analytics Careers - Brian Coleman, Chelsea McCalla, and India Hatfield, GSK, 04/23/2021

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How Operations Research and Machine Learning are Reshaping the Aviation Industry - Deepak Agrawal, American Airlines, 04/16/2021

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…

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Data Science in Industry - Polly Mitchell-Guthrie and Erik Pulido, Kinaxis, 03/04/2021

Polly Mitchell-Guthrie (VP of Industry Outreach and Thought Leadership at Kinaxis) and Erik Pulido (Associate Solution Consultant at Kinaxis) discuss key data science skills, the role of analytics…

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Can Brands Claim Ignorance? Unauthorized Subcontracting in Apparel Supply Chains - Anna Sáez de Tejada Cuenca, IESE Business School, 10/07/2020

ABSTRACTUnauthorized subcontracting—when suppliers outsource part of their production to a third party without the retailer's consent—has been common practice in the apparel industry…

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