DEPARTMENT SEMINARS

Statistical and Computational Guarantee for Optimal Transport

by Dr Tianyi Lin

Assistant Professor

Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research (IEOR), Columbia University

20 May 2025

Faster Convergence and Acceleration for Diffusion-Based Generative Models

by Dr Gen Li

Assistant Professor

Department of Statistics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

29 April 2025

Provable Efficiency in Online Reinforcement Learning: Function Approximation and RLHF

by Dr Peng Zhao

Assistant Professor

School of Artificial Intelligence at Nanjing University

29 April 2025

Stochastic Approximation Schemes with Decision-Dependent Samples: The Case of Performative Prediction

by Dr Hoi-To Wai

Associate Professor

Department of Systems Engineering & Engineering Management, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

25 April 2025

Optimal Planning of Electric Ship Charging Station Using Noisy-Expensive Constrained Bayesian Optimization

by Dr Yuan Jun

Associate Professor, China Institute of FTZ Supply Chain

Shanghai Maritime University

3 April 2025

Managerial Endorsement of Employees’ Novel Ideas: Balancing Newness and Familiarity

by Dr Vijaya Venkataramani

Dean’s Professor of Leadership and Innovation

Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland

7 March 2025

Heaviside Composite Optimization: A New Paradigm in Optimization

by Dr Jong-Shi Pang

Distinguished Professor

Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, University of Southern California

20 February 2025

Enhancing Supply Chain Transparency: The Global Supply Chain Observatory & the UK-India Critical Minerals Initiative

by Ms Nie Wei & Ms Mariel Alem Fonseca

PhD Researchers

Industrial Resilience Research Group, Institute for Manufacturing, University of Cambridge

14 February 2025

Target-Following Online Resource Allocation Using Proxy Assignments

by Dr Chamsi Hssaine

Assistant Professor

Department of Data Sciences and Operations, University of Southern California’s Marshall School of Business

7 February 2025

Catastrophe Insurance: an Adaptive Robust Optimization Approach

by Dr Cynthia Zeng

Assistant Professor

NYU Stern School of Business, Abu Dhabi

6 February 2025