GenAI and/or Optimization: Present and Future 

featuring Ishai Menache from Microsoft

March 27, 2025 
12pm ET | Complimentary Lunch (first 75 attendees)
1-2pm ET | Seminar
Callaway Manufacturing Research Building (Auditorium 101)
 

SESSION OVERVIEW

Ishai Menache will describe how LLMs and optimization techniques are leveraged in Microsoft’s cloud supply chain to improve efficiency, provide insights to planners, and answer "what-if" questions. More broadly, Menache will discuss ongoing research and future directions in the intersection of operations research and AI.

SESSION SPEAKER

Ishai Menache is a Partner Researcher & Manager of the Machine Learning and Optimization group at Microsoft Research. With a PhD in Electrical Engineering from the Technion and postdoctoral experience at MIT, he has been with Microsoft since 2011. His research focuses on developing large-scale optimization frameworks that leverage machine learning and Generative AI technologies to improve supply chain operations.

SESSION LOCATION

Callaway Manufacturing Research Center (MARC)
Main Auditorium (1st Floor)
Georgia Institute of Technology
813 Ferst Drive NW
Atlanta, GA 30332

GPS Coordinates: 33.777873, -84.401353

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Please note that we will be serving a free box lunch from 12-1pm (for the first 75 attendees) outside of the auditorium before the lecture at 1pm ET.

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