{"684131":{"#nid":"684131","#data":{"type":"news","title":"AI4OPT and Tech AI Director Pascal Van Hentenryck to Deliver Plenary Talk at INFORMS 2025 Annual Meeting","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe U. S. National Science Foundation AI Institute for Advances in Optimization (AI4OPT) is proud to announce that its director, Pascal Van Hentenryck, has been invited as a plenary speaker at the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/meetings.informs.org\/wordpress\/annual\/plenaries-keynotes\/?utm_campaign=5698922-2025%20Annual\u0026amp;utm_content=344397403\u0026amp;utm_medium=social\u0026amp;utm_source=linkedin\u0026amp;hss_channel=lcp-598009#phillips\u0022\u003E2025 INFORMS Annual Meeting\u003C\/a\u003E, one of the premier global gatherings for operations research and analytics professionals.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EVan Hentenryck\u2019s talk on Wednesday, October 29 from 11 a.m. ET to 12 p.m. ET, titled \u201cLearning to Optimize: Foundations and Industrial Impact,\u201d will explore how advances in machine learning can transform the way optimization problems are solved in complex, real-world systems.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch3\u003ELearning to Optimize in Practice\u003C\/h3\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn many industries, optimization problems must be solved repeatedly under changing conditions, from electrical power grids and manufacturing systems to transportation networks and global supply chains. The scale and volatility of these challenges have outpaced traditional optimization approaches.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EVan Hentenryck\u2019s plenary will present new methodologies for fusing machine learning with optimization, creating optimization proxies that produce near-optimal, feasible solutions at unprecedented speed. His talk will highlight how supervised learning and reinforcement learning can be combined with classical optimization to meet real-time industrial constraints while preserving theoretical rigor.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThese approaches are already demonstrating transformative impact across domains such as grid optimization, supply chain management, logistics, and mobility, showcasing the power of AI-driven optimization to solve society\u2019s most complex infrastructure challenges.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch3\u003EAbout Pascal Van Hentenryck\u003C\/h3\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPascal Van Hentenryck is the director of AI4OPT, the director of Tech AI (the AI Hub at Georgia Tech), and the A. Russell Chandler III Chair and Professor in Georgia Tech\u2019s H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech is proud to announce that AI4OPT and Tech AI Director Pascal Van Hentenryck has been invited as a plenary speaker at the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/meetings.informs.org\/wordpress\/annual\/plenaries-keynotes\/?utm_campaign=5698922-2025%20Annual\u0026amp;utm_content=344397403\u0026amp;utm_medium=social\u0026amp;utm_source=linkedin\u0026amp;hss_channel=lcp-598009#phillips\u0022\u003E2025 INFORMS Annual Meeting\u003C\/a\u003E, one of the premier global gatherings for operations research and analytics professionals.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Georgia Tech is proud to announce that AI4OPT and Tech AI Director Pascal Van Hentenryck has been invited as a plenary speaker at the 2025 INFORMS Annual Meeting"}],"uid":"36660","created_gmt":"2025-08-25 18:44:29","changed_gmt":"2025-08-25 18:45:16","author":"jbjorne3","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","location":"Atlanta, GA","dateline":{"date":"2025-08-25T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2025-08-25T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"677787":{"id":"677787","type":"image","title":"Pascal-Shoot-111524-04.jpg","body":null,"created":"1756147481","gmt_created":"2025-08-25 18:44:41","changed":"1756147481","gmt_changed":"2025-08-25 18:44:41","alt":"Pascal Van Hentenryck","file":{"fid":"261725","name":"Pascal-Shoot-111524-04.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2025\/08\/25\/Pascal-Shoot-111524-04.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2025\/08\/25\/Pascal-Shoot-111524-04.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":3460421,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2025\/08\/25\/Pascal-Shoot-111524-04.jpg?itok=45HTXAo8"}}},"media_ids":["677787"],"groups":[{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"},{"id":"1188","name":"Research Horizons"},{"id":"660368","name":"Tech AI (Artificial Intelligence)"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}