More than 3,000 people converged on Lyngby Campus to participate in the 33rd European Conference on Operational Research (EURO 2024) at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU). The conference took place from June 30, 2024, to July 3, 2024.

A highlight of the event included a talk by AI4OPT Director Pascal Van Hentenryck on the fusion of learning and optimization for engineering applications.

Abstract

The fusion of machine learning and optimization has the potential to deliver outcomes for engineering applications that the two technologies cannot achieve independently. Van Hentenryck's talk illustrated this potential with the concept of an optimization proxy that can produce, in real time, feasible and near-optimal solutions to classes of optimization problems. The talk reviewed the theoretical foundations underlying optimization proxies and demonstrated its practical applications in power systems, supply chains, and mobility.

About Pascal Van Hentenryck

Pascal Van Hentenryck is an A. Russell Chandler III Chair and Professor in the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Georgia Tech. Prior to this appointment, he was a professor of Computer Science at Brown University for about 20 years. He also led the optimization research group (about 70 people) at National ICT Australia (NICTA) until its merger with CSIRO and was the Seth Bonder Collegiate Professor of Engineering at the University of Michigan. Van Hentenryck is also an Honorary Professor at the Australian National University.

For more information, visit the EURO 2024 website.

See the full list of keynote speakers.