Thiago Serra (@thserra.bsky.social)

In case you missed @CalvinTsay's tweet, we have just released a survey along with @gmunoz_m and Joey Huchette on polyhedral theory in deep learning: arxiv.org/abs/2305.00241 This thread covers the main points, why we did this, and why you should care about it. Read along! #orms

The 2024 ICS Distinguished Service Award was presented to Robin Lougee

The 2024 ICS Harvey J Greenberg Research Award was presented to Selvaprabu Nadarajah (University of Illinois Chicago) and Andre Cire (University of Toronto) for their paper "Self-adapting network relaxations for weakly coupled Markov decision processes"

The 2024 ICS Student Paper Award winner is Shuvomoy Das Gupta (MIT) for the paper "Branch-and-Bound Performance Estimation Programming: A Unified Methodology for Constructing Optimal Optimization Methods," co-authored with Bart P.G. Van Parys, and Ernest K. Ryu

The 2024 ICS Student Paper Award committee identified two runner-ups for the Award: Jie Wang (Georgia Tech) and Jiachang Liu (Duke University)

The 2022 ICS prize was awarded to Krishnakumar Balasubramanian (UC Davis), Shixiang Chen (USTC), Jiaxiang Li (Uni of Minnesota), Shiqian Ma (Rice), Anthony Man-Cho So (CUHK), and Tong Zhang (UIUC)

Many people I hadn’t met before stopped me at #INFORMS2024 to tell me they either have or plan to assign some of my teaching materials to their students (games and/or YouTube videos). That fills my heart with joy! Thank you! ❤️ Let me know what your students thought, please! I was also asked to create games on other topics. I’ll try my best!

@Karmel_Shehadeh @lehigh_ise @INFORMS Those little hands 😍

Delighted to share that our paper “Sparse PCA With Multiple Components”(w/ Jean Pauphilet) has been awarded first place in the 2024 INFORMS DMDA workshop paper competition-theoretical track. Thanks to the organizers for a fun event!

Are you attending the @INFORMS Annual Meeting and also thinking about pursuing a PhD? Come talk with me about the PhD program at @TippieAnalytics 😁 For more information: tippie.uiowa.edu/phd/phd-busine… If you are not attending the meeting, do reach out online! #informs2024 #orms

@gabepgomes INFORMS?

hello Seattle! arrived earlier than expected, reach out if you’d like to talk some science, AI, and everything in between.

@nandofioretto Coming from AA, not a surprise…

Great experience with AA today (this was my actual seat assignment on a fully booked plane) 😅

@kyrib She looks so much like you!

@thserra Whenever I actually catch her with her eyes open she just looks so precious 🥹

New family member has been added! Sleep deprivation hits differently in your 30’s but well worth it for this little bean ❤️

New research: U.S. presidential election could be swayed by as few as 50,000 voters strategically relocating less than 100 miles. Our study explores how small, coordinated movements can boost a candidate's chance by up to 8%. Read more in "The Sensitivity of the U.S. Presidential Election to Coordinated Voter Relocation:" arxiv.org/abs/2410.00697 #Election2024 #PoliticalScience @nytimes @washingtonpost @FiveThirtyEight @BrookingsInst @CSPAN @TheAtlantic @MSNBC @ABC @CNN @CNNPolitics @TheDailyShow @LastWeekTonight @FoxNews @realDailyWire @joerogan @jonstewart @maddow @iamjohnoliver @RBReich @elonmusk @NateSilver538 @billmaher @benshapiro @RealCandaceO @TuckerCarlson @seanhannity @krassenstein @EdKrassen @AndrewYang @ggreenwald @MattWalshBlog @RobertKennedyJr @andre_a_cire @lozano_mono @CarlosCardonha @whistlesWooo

@anncampbelliowa @engamirahijazi @AI4OPT Amira herself. She picked me up, we stopped by her favorite coffee shop, and she brought me to their office.

@thserra @engamirahijazi @AI4OPT What was the airport pickup? So curious

I prosecuted sexual assault cases in Texas. I prosecuted these cases for 17 years. I never prosecuted an undocumented immigrant for rape. I prosecuted multiple Christian pastors for rape. As a descendant of a holocaust survivor, I have to speak up against this hate.

Pardon the brag but SO excited to see our paper at the top of @newsycombinator (for like 15 mins). Usually only 15 people read our papers 😅 @obastani @Alpsungu @HaosenGe Ozge Rei @WhartonAIAI

Excited to release Part I of Optimizing with Column Generation. Not a draft. Two years of hard work led to 300 pages covering CG principles in depth. Check …imizingWithColumnGeneration.github.io Your feedback will help us with the forthcoming Part II on advanced techniques!

As the new semester begins, we are thrilled to welcome four new faculty members (from left to right)--@thserra, @feng_mai, @luo_or and Mengxiao Zhang. Their expertise in various areas of machine learning further strengthens our research and teaching in artificial intelligence!