AI4OPT Seminar Series

Date: Thursday, May11, 2023

Time: Noon – 1:00 pm

Location: 9th floor Atrium in Coda Building (756 W Peachtree St NW, Atlanta, GA 30308)

Join Virtually: https://gatech.zoom.us/j/99381428980

Speaker: Wim Nuijten

The Eindhoven Artificial Intelligence Systems Institute, Supply Chain Optimization, and Football

Abstract: In this presentation Nuijten will firstly present the Eindhoven Artificial Intelligence Systems Institute (EAISI, pronounce “Easy”). EAISI is an institute at Eindhoven University of Technology where 300 academic staff and 600 PhD candidates do fundamental and applied research on the combination of and interaction between the domains of AI, OR, Engineering Systems, and Humans and Ethics. EAISI focuses on Cyber-Physical Systems where the physical, digital, and human worlds come together and aims to get to a better understanding, better designs, better models, and better decisions in the application areas of Health, Mobility, and Industry. After that he will go into his personal interests of using Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Operations Research (OR) to do Supply Chain Optimization and using AI and OR for analysis in football.

Bio: Wim Nuijten is the scientific director of the Eindhoven Artificial Intelligence Systems Institute (EAISI) at Eindhoven University of Technology and an AI and OR scientist and entrepreneur. He has two main scientific and industrial interests i) modeling real-life planning and scheduling problems and using AI, OR, and their combination to solve them and ii) using AI, OR, and their combination to do sports analysis like human pose estimation, cognitive performance training, and player and match analysis in football.

Dr. Nuijten has held leadership positions at ILOG (France), IBM (France/Netherlands), Quintiq (Netherlands), Dassault Systemes (Netherlands/France), Jheronimus Academy of Data Science (Netherlands), and More Optimal (Netherlands). Besides as Scientific Director of EAISI, he currently serves as Data Science Advisor for the Performance Analysis and Technology team at KNVB, advisor and/or co-founder of several AI start-ups, and Active Investor of Artistotle Technologies.

Lunch will be served at the seminar. So, please stop by 15 minutes before the seminar to pick up lunch.

To receive AI4OPT seminar announcements, please sign up to our mailing list. at https://lists.isye.gatech.edu/mailman/listinfo/ai4opt-seminars.

Past seminars can be found at https://www.ai4opt.org/seminars/past-seminars.