2025 Douglas C. Montgomery Distinguished Lecture Series
with Dr. Pascal Van Hentenryck

Date: Friday, April 18, 2025
Time: 3:30 PM – 4:30 PM
(45-minute lecture, 15-minute Q+A)
Location: BYAC 110

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Reception to follow from 4:30p-6:30p at FOCH Cafe Bistro.

Join us for this exciting lecture designed to advance the discussion of important topics in industrial engineering. Dr. Pascal Van Hentenryck will address optimization learning, showing how this form of AI can be impactful in supply chain management, transportation systems and more.

 

About the lecture
AIforIE: Optimization learning for industrial engineering

The need for optimization is a theme that runs deep through the study and development of artificial intelligence, especially in machine and reinforcement learning. In this lecture, Dr. Pascal Van Hentenryck will discuss his innovative work in optimization learning —the process of improving the performance of AI models — and its potential applications for industrial engineers.

This talk addresses how to speed up parametric optimization problems to meet real-time constraints present in many applications in energy systems, supply chains, logistics and transportation systems. It reviews the concept of optimization proxies that learn the input/output mappings of parametric optimization problems, computing near-optimal feasible solutions and providing quality guarantees. Dr. Van Hentenryck will also show how to “learn to optimize” highly complex optimization problems, merging optimization methodologies with supervised learning and reinforcement learning. The methodologies are highlighted using industrial problems in grid optimization, end-to-end supply chains and transportation systems.

 

About Dr. Pascal Van Hentenryck

Pascal Van Hentenryck is the director of Tech AI (the AI Hub at Georgia Tech), the director of the National Science Foundation AI Institute for Advances in Optimization (AI4OPT), and the A. Russell Chandler III Chair and Professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology with appointments in the colleges of engineering and computing. He was a professor of Computer Science at Brown University for over 20 years and led the optimization research group at the National ICT Research in Australia. His current research focuses on AI for Engineering with applications in energy systems, supply chains, manufacturing, health care and mobility. Van Hentenryck is a pioneer of constraint programming, and he designed several innovative optimization systems that have been in commercial use for over 20 years. He is a fellow of AAAI and INFORMS.

 

About the series

Douglas C. Montgomery Distinguished Lecture Series is designed to periodically offer talks to raise the overall profile of industrial engineering and provide a forum for top experts to tackle the field’s growing opportunities and challenges.

Read about the 2023 lecture with Dr. Harriet B. Nembhard
Read about the 2024 lecture with Dr. G. Don Taylor

About Douglas C. Montgomery

Douglas C. Montgomery is a Regents Professor of Industrial Engineering and Statistics at the School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence at ASU’s Fulton Schools of Engineering. His research interests are in industrial statistics. He is an author of 16 books and more than 200 technical papers. He is a recipient of the Shewhart Medal, the Brumbaugh Award, the Hunter Award, the Shewell Award and the Ellis R. Ott Award. Montgomery is also a recipient of the George Box Medal from the European Network For Business and Industrial Statistics, or ENBIS.

Montgomery is a fellow of the American Statistical Association, the American Society for Quality Control, the Royal Statistical Society, the Institute of Industrial Engineers, and an elected member of the International Statistical Institute.