The workshop "Data and Decisions" is organized by the Department of Systems and Industrial Engineering of the University of Arizona and will be held on the campus of the University of Arizona in Tucson, AZ. The workshop is invitation-only and will precede the 2018 INFORMS Annual Meeting in Phoenix, AZ. The goal of the workshop is to serve as a forum to prominent researchers in the broad area of data analytics and decision sciences, foster new research ideas and directions, and provide an opportunity for interaction and collaboration.

Workshop topics

Data analytics
Large-scale optimization
Optimization under uncertainty and incomplete information
Risk-averse optimization
Robust and distributionally robust optimization
Learning-enabled optimization
Machine learning

Organizing Committee

Jianqiang Cheng (University of Arizona)
Danielle Embry (University of Arizona)
Neng Fan (University of Arizona)
Pavlo Krokhmal (University of Arizona), Committee Chair
Jian Liu (University of Arizona)
Matthias Poloczek (University of Arizona)
Suvrajeet Sen (University of Southern California)
Young-Jun Son (University of Arizona)
Qiang Zhou (University of Arizona)