Talks

YouTube

2025

• [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

2020

• [Dagstuhl CS Seminars] Invited Researcher
  Data-Driven Combinatorial Optimization, Dagstuhl Research Seminars (cancelled due to COVID), October 2020, Schloss Dagstuhl, Germany

• [INFORMS] Conference Talk
  Seq2Pat: Sequence-to-Pattern Generation In Large-Scale Sequence Databases, INFORMS Session on Machine Learning and Discrete Optimization, Virtual, November 2020, Marryland, USA

• [TechWeek] Invited Panelist
  Verinin Bollugunda Yolculuk, Istanbul Technology Week, in Turkish, Virtual, November 2020, Istanbul, Turkey

2019

• [ICLP] Invited Tutorial
  Constraint Programming for Resource Management, The 35th International Conference on Logic Programming, ICLP 2019, September 2019, New Mexico, USA

• [Harvard] Invited Talk & Panelist
  Scaling Data & AI in the Global Enterprise, Harvard Business Analytics Immersion Program, May 2019, Boston, USA

• [ECMF] Conference Talk
  Bayesian Deep Learning Based Exploration-Exploitation for Personalized Recommendations, 4th Eastern Conference on Mathematical Finance (ECMF), October 2019, Boston, USA

• [BenSum] Invited Speaker
  Machine Learning & the Future of Customer Engagement, Fidelity Plan Sponsors Benefit Summit (BenSum), May 2019, Scottsdale, USA

2018

• [Dagstuhl CS Seminars] Invited Researcher
  Planning and Operations Research, Dagstuhl Seminars, February 2018, Schloss Dagstuhl, Germany,

• [ACP Summer School] Lecturer
  Constraint-based Solutions for Resource Allocation Problems, The 14th Summer School of the Association for Constraint Programming (ACP), June 2018, Wyoming, USA

• [INFORMS] Conference Talk
  Instance-Specific Algorithm Configuration, INFORMS Boston Chapter, April 2018, Boston, USA

• [Fidelity] Invited Talk
  A Day in the Life of a Data Scientist, Fidelity General Management Apprenticeship Program, September 2018, North Carolina, USA