{"686906":{"#nid":"686906","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Pascal Van Hentenryck Delivers Keynote on AI for Engineering Optimization at AI Festival in Austria Capital","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EPascal Van Hentenryck, A. Russell Chandler III Chair and Professor in the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISyE) at Georgia Tech, director of Tech AI, and director of NSF AI4OPT, was a keynote speaker at AI Festival 2025, held December 1\u20133 at TU Wien Informatics in Vienna, Austria.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe three-day international festival convened leading researchers, industry experts, and members of the public to explore how artificial intelligence is shaping science, technology, and society. Through keynote talks, panels, and interactive sessions, the event fostered dialogue around emerging AI research, real-world applications, and societal impact.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EVan Hentenryck delivered a keynote on \u201cAI for Engineering Optimization\u201d during Day 1: Research, which focused on recent advances in foundational and applied AI. His talk highlighted how AI and optimization methods can be integrated to address complex engineering challenges, with implications for domains such as energy systems, mobility, and large-scale decision-making.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EThe session was chaired by Nysret Musliu of TU Wien and the Cluster of Excellence Bilateral AI (BilAI).\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe research-focused first day of the festival featured discussions on topics including neurosymbolic AI, large language models, explainable AI, AI in science, and automated problem solving and decision-making. Van Hentenryck\u2019s keynote contributed to these conversations by emphasizing the role of AI-driven optimization in advancing engineering design and operational efficiency.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EAI Festival 2025 was co-organized by TU Wien, the Center for Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (CAIML), BilAI\u2014funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF)\u2014the Vienna Science and Technology Fund (WWTF), and TU Austria. The event underscored the importance of international collaboration across academia and industry in advancing responsible and impactful AI research.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EVan Hentenryck\u2019s participation reflects Georgia Tech\u2019s leadership in artificial intelligence, as well as the missions of Tech AI and AI4OPT to advance AI-enabled optimization and decision-making for complex, real-world systems.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPascal Van Hentenryck, Georgia Tech professor and director of \u003Cstrong\u003ETech AI\u003C\/strong\u003E and \u003Cstrong\u003EAI4OPT\u003C\/strong\u003E, delivered a keynote on \u003Cstrong\u003E\u201cAI for Engineering Optimization\u201d\u003C\/strong\u003E at \u003Cstrong\u003EAI Festival 2025\u003C\/strong\u003E at TU Wien. The international event convened researchers and industry leaders to explore advances in artificial intelligence. His participation highlights GT\u2019s leadership in AI-enabled optimization and decision-making.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Pascal Van Hentenryck, director of Tech AI and AI4OPT, delivered a keynote on AI for Engineering Optimization at AI Festival 2025 at TU Wien."}],"uid":"36348","created_gmt":"2025-12-16 17:15:56","changed_gmt":"2025-12-16 17:17:45","author":"Breon Martin","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","location":"Vienna, Austria","dateline":{"date":"2025-12-10T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2025-12-10T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"678858":{"id":"678858","type":"image","title":"Pascal-in-Austria-AI-Festival-2025.png","body":null,"created":"1765905382","gmt_created":"2025-12-16 17:16:22","changed":"1765905382","gmt_changed":"2025-12-16 17:16:22","alt":"Pascal-in-Austria-AI-Festival-2025","file":{"fid":"262948","name":"Pascal-in-Austria-AI-Festival-2025.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2025\/12\/16\/Pascal-in-Austria-AI-Festival-2025.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2025\/12\/16\/Pascal-in-Austria-AI-Festival-2025.png","mime":"image\/png","size":3516971,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2025\/12\/16\/Pascal-in-Austria-AI-Festival-2025.png?itok=cgK_niOr"}}},"media_ids":["678858"],"groups":[{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"},{"id":"1188","name":"Research Horizons"},{"id":"660368","name":"Tech AI (Artificial Intelligence)"}],"categories":[{"id":"194606","name":"Artificial Intelligence"}],"keywords":[{"id":"192863","name":"go-ai"},{"id":"187915","name":"go-researchnews"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"193655","name":"Artificial Intelligence at Georgia Tech"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}