Congratulations to Wenbo Chen for winning the Thesis Pitch Competition in the ML and manufacturing category. His thesis on "Confidence-Aware Graph Neural Networks for Learning Reliability Assessment Commitments" was recognized at the IISE Annual Conference & Expo.

Chen is a fourth-year ML Ph.D. student at Georgia Tech's H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISyE) and works as an AI4OPT graduate research assistant under the guidance of Pascal Van Hentenryck, the AI4OPT Director.