Talks

YouTube

2025

• [Foundational Models @ Stanford] Invited Seminar
  Forge: Foundational Optimization Representations from Graph Embeddings, November, Stanford, USA

• [Online Learning @ USC] Invited Seminar
  Bandit-based Adaptive Large-Neighborhood Search, November, University of Southern California, USA

• [Amazon GenAI Research Center] Invited Seminar
  Gala: Global LLM Agents for Modelling Co-Pilots, November, Amazon AWS Generative AI Research Center, USA, NeurIPS’25

• [Replicability @ INFORMS] Organizer
  Replicable Research, October, Atlanta, INFORMS, USA

• [Online Learning @ IJCAI] Best Paper Nominee
  Balans: Bandit-based Adaptive Large-Neighborhood Search, August, Montreal, Canada, [IJCAI’25]

• [Generative AI @ CORS] Plenary Talk
  Decision Making in the Era of Large-Language Models, June, Alberta, Canada, [CORS’25]

• [Open Source AI @ TechWeek] Invited Panelist
  Business Impact with Open-Source AI, June, New York City

• [Generative AI @ INFORMS] Invited Talk
  Toward Modelling Assistants: An Overview of Ner4Opt and Text2Zinc, March, Toronto, Canada, [ICS’25], [YouTube]

• [Explainable AI @ AAAI] Innovative Applications
  BoolXAI: Explainable AI using Expressive Boolean Formulas, February, Philadelphia

• [Decision Science @ AAAI] Invited Talk
  Advancing Decision Science: Lessons Learned from Machine Learning Community, February, Philadelphia

• [Text2Zinc @ AAAI] Invited Talk
  Text2Zinc: A Cross-Domain Dataset for LLM Assistants, February, Philadelphia

• [Ner4Opt @ Koc University] Invited Talk
  Toward LLM Modelling Assistants, January 2025, Istanbul, Turkey

2024

• [AI Accelerator Institute] Invited Panelist
  Building in Highly Regulated Environments, October 2024, Boston, USA

• [Academia vs. Industry] Invited Panelist
  Boomerang Faculty: Returning to Academia from Industry, April 2024, Providence, USA

• [Evolution of AI Paradigms] AAAI Educational Videos
  From Classical AI to Modern and Generative AI: The Evolution of AI Paradigms, March 2024
  Winner of the 2024 AAAI Educational AI Videos [Brown CS News]

• [AI4OR @ AAAI] Keynote Speaker
  LLMs for Optimization Modelling, February 2024, Vancouver, Canada, [slides]

• [Innovative Applications @ AAAI] Conference Talk
  Mab2Rec: Building Higher Order Abstractions from the Components of Recommender Systems, February 2024, Vancouver, Canada

2023

• [Recommender Systems @ CNRS] Research Seminar
  Recommendations in Digital Channels, November 2023, Toulouse, France

• [Optimization @ École Polytechnique] Research Seminar
  Multi-level Optimization to Boost Experimentation in Digital Channels, November 2023, Paris, France

• [Multi-Armed Bandits @ Sophia Antipolis] Research Seminar
  Mab2Rec: Multi-Armed Bandit based Recommender Systems, November 2023, Nice, France

• [Generative AI @ UCONN] Invited Talk + Panelist
  From Classical AI to Modern and Generative AI: Challenges and Opportunities for the Enterprise, November 2023, USA

• [Named Entity Recognition @ CPAIOR] Conference Talk
  Ner4Opt: Named Entity Recognition for Optimization Modeling from Natural Language, May 2023, France

• [Fidelity Global AI Forum] Invited Talk
  How to Succeed in Strategic Industry Partnerships?, April 2023, USA

• [Bridge Program @ AAAI] Tutorial
  Bridging Constraints and Machine Learning, Februrary 2023, USA [paper]

2022

• [Comet ML] Invited Panelist
  The Era of Hyper-Personalization, November 2022, USA

• [Bucknell University] Invited Talk
  Multi-Objective Optimization in Recommender Systems, [slides], November 2022, USA [video]

• [Dagstuhl CS Seminars] Invited Researcher
  Data-Driven Combinatorial Optimization, Dagsthul, October 2022, Germany [report]

• [Imperial College] Research Seminar
  Declarative Approaches in Optimization, Data Learning, May 2022, UK

• [NVIDIA GTC] Featured Talk
  Multi-Objective Optimization [slides], NVIDIA GTC, March 2022, USA

2021

• [UPenn] Guest Lecture
  Optimization in Practice, Dept. of Computer Science, Univ. of Pennsylvania, November 2021, Pennsylvania, USA

• [All Things Open] Invited Talk
  Building Recommender Systems: A Case Study with Open Source Software, All Things Open, October 2021, North Carolina, USA [YouTube]

• [IJCAI] Conference Talk
  Active Learning meets Optimized Item Selection, Data Sience Meets Optimization @ IJCAI, August 2021, Montreal, Canada

• [Research Triangle Park] Meetup Talk
  Building Recommender Systems: A Case Study with Open Source Software, All Things Open, June 2021, North Carolina, USA [YouTube]

• [AAAI] Conference Talk
  Representing the unification of text featurization using a context-free grammar, Virtual, February 2021, USA