Attention 1st and 2nd-year Ph.D. students, applications for AI-SCORE 2026 are due on April 17 at 5pm EST! The event is happening May 18-22 in Chicago. Please find all the details and application form at our website: https://ai-score.github.io/
AI-SCORE is a dedicated school to (i) train Ph.D. students to be dually conversant in both OR and CS methodological traditions, and (ii) pose challenge problems that are positioned to excite researchers across the CS-OR spectrum.
We will kickstart with a plenary from David Shmoys (Cornell), and then have the following intensive modules:
- Contextual Optimization, led by Vishal Gupta (USC) and Kai Wang (GT). Plenary by Hamsa Bastani (U Penn).
- Generative AI for Science/Engineering, led by Ferdinando Fioretto (U Virginia) and Léonard Boussioux Boussioux (U Washington). Plenary by Carla Gomes (Cornell).
Organizers are Lavanya Marla (UIUC), Ferdinando Fioretto (U Virginia), Bistra Dilkina (USC), and Adam Elmachtoub (Columbia).
Advisor committee includes David Shmoys (Cornell), Michael Fu (U Maryland), and Sven Koenig (UC Irvine).
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Adam Elmachtoub
Dept. of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
Columbia University
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