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Fields Institute Workshop on Smart Cities, Energy, and Sustainability

  • 1.  Fields Institute Workshop on Smart Cities, Energy, and Sustainability

    Posted 04-03-2023 10:22

    We would like to invite you to attend the Workshop on Smart Cities, Energy and Sustainability at the Fields Institute in Toronto on Friday May 5, 2023. The purpose of this workshop is to spur discussions and knowledge sharing around the use of data science, operations research, and artificial intelligence for tackling societal challenges in domains spanning energy, urban mobility, transportation, and the broader sharing economy. The program includes cutting-edge research presentations by the following distinguished speakers and several opportunities to network and interact with participants. 

    • John Birge, Hobart W. Williams Distinguished Service Professor of Operations Management, Booth School of Business, University of Chicago

    • Ming Hu, Distinguished Professor of Business Operations and Analytics, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto

    • Carolina Osorio, SCALE AI Research Chair in Artificial Intelligence for Urban Mobility and Logistics and Associate Professor, HEC Montreal; Staff Research Scientist, Google Research

    • John Richardson, CEO of Ethelo

    • Adam Wierman, Professor of Computing and Mathematical Sciences and Director of the Information Science and Technology Initiative, California Institute of Technology


    For more information and to register, please visit the workshop website:
    http://www.fields.utoronto.ca/activities/22-23/smart-cities 


    Feel free to contact the workshop organizers (
    Bissan Ghaddar, Selva Nadarajah, and Joe Naoum-Sawaya) if you have any questions.



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    Selva Nadarajah
    Associate Professor
    University of Illinois at Chicago
    selvan.people.uic.edu
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