AI4OPT Members: We're just one week away from our Welcome Back Social. Join us on Friday, August 28, from 5-9 p.m. in the Coda 9th Floor Atrium for good food, great conversation, and the opportunity to reconnect with fellow members and students.

Check out the August issue of the #AI4OPT Newsletter. This issue highlights a busy summer of AI education, outreach, and research, including the Seth Bonder Camps, the Faculty Training Program, Panama’s National AI Strategy, and member spotlights. Read more: ai4opt.org/news/newslet...

AI4OPT Seminar Series: Xinliang Dai of Princeton’s ZERO Lab will present “Two Scalable Distributed Strategies for Nonlinear Optimization in Power Systems.” See approaches for scalable optimization of large, complex energy systems. Learn more: www.ai4opt.org/news-events/...

AI4OPT will support Georgia Tech's $18.1 million NSF-funded Programmable Cloud Laboratory Test Bed's vision by advancing its vision for smarter, more adaptive manufacturing. Read more: www.ai4opt.org/news-events/...

Another successful summer of AI learning is in the books! The 2026 Seth Bonder Camps marked the fifth year of AI4OPT’s expanded high school camp program, giving students hands-on experience with AI, data science and engineering. Read more: www.ai4opt.org/news-events/...

Join us this week, June 17–18 for the AI4OPT Faculty Training Program Conference at Georgia Tech. Explore how AI and optimization are transforming education, industry, and society through presentations. RSVP: www.ai4opt.org/news-events/...

Next in the AI4OPT Seminar Series: Rabab Haider, Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Michigan, will present “Fast Algorithms for Large-Scale Optimization in Renewable-Rich Power Systems.” More details: www.ai4opt.org/news-events/...

Thank you to Pierre Schaus for speaking at the AI4OPT Seminar Series last week and sharing insights on solving vehicle routing problems with constraint programming. We appreciate the engaging talk and discussion with our community.

Check out the latest #AI4OPT Newsletter (Feb 2026)! From global keynotes and major conference honors to real-world impact across energy, supply chains, and power systems we’re advancing AI + optimization. Read more: mailchi.mp/a0424f127143... #AI #Optimization #GeorgiaTech

The AI4OPT Seminar Series is back! Kicking off on March 4, 2026, with Pierre Schaus, professor at UCLouvain, discussing “Sequence Variables for Solving Vehicle Routing Problems with Constraint Programming.” Register: www.ai4opt.org/news-events/...

Members of AI4OPT and Tech AI at Georgia Tech welcomed the Consulate General of Belgium in Atlanta to Georgia Tech. The visit included faculty flash talks, an AI4OPT lab tour, and student poster presentations, and more. Link: www.ai4opt.org/news-events/...

AI4OPT researchers recently shared their work at CPAIOR 2025. Read the full article to learn more about their presentations and findings: www.ai4opt.org/news-events/...

Congratulations to AI4OPT researcher Asal Roudbari on earning a Best Poster Award at the recent Shriners–Georgia Tech event for her collaborative work with Shriners Children’s. www.ai4opt.org/news-events/...

Happy New Year from the AI4OPT Team! From our launch in 2021 to becoming a nationally recognized AI institute in 2026, we’re grateful to our partners, students, and collaborators for helping us turn vision into impact. Here’s to another year of innovation!

The November AI4OPT Newsletter is out! We’re celebrating four years of impact, breakthroughs in AI and optimization, and highlights from across research, industry, education, and policy. Read more: mailchi.mp/8c0ff3e57ebf... Subscribe: ai4opt.us3.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=...

Pascal Van Hentenryck shared insights in Australia on how AI and optimization are powering advances in energy, infrastructure, and beyond. The discussions highlighted global collaboration for responsible innovation. www.ai4opt.org/news-events/... #AI #Optimization #Energy

AI4OPT joined 170 students at HackGwinnett 5.0 for a full day of coding and innovation. Michael Butros shared how AI is tackling real-world optimization challenges. Read more: www.ai4opt.org/news-events/...

AI4OPT researchers shared cutting-edge work at #INFORMS2025 in Atlanta, advancing the fusion of AI and optimization across logistics, energy, and manufacturing. Read more about the team’s impact: www.ai4opt.org/news-events/...

Researchers from UTRGV and Georgia Tech’s AI4OPT met for the 2025 NSF ExpandAI ARISE Meeting to advance collaboration in AI research and education. Read more: www.ai4opt.org/news-events/...

At SAIL 2025, AI4OPT highlighted advances in AI and optimization through presentations by Jackelyn Bjorne and posters from graduate researchers Asal Roudbari and Arnaud Deza. Read more: www.ai4opt.org/news-events/... #AI #Optimization #AIResearch #AIInstitutes #AI4OPT #Collaboration

Cathy Wu of MIT presented at AI4OPT on how AI and optimization can reshape transportation design for a more efficient, sustainable future. Read the recap: www.ai4opt.org/news-events/...

Next week Pascal Van Hentenryck will give a plenary talk at INFORMS 2025 (Oct. 29 at 11 a.m. ET). His talk, “Learning to Optimize: Foundations and Industrial Impact,” will explore how machine-learning meets optimization in practice. Visit our event page for details: www.ai4opt.org/news-events/...

Royal Society of NSW and ACOLA are hosting the AI: The Hope and the Hype forum on Nov. 6 at Gov House, Sydney. @vanhentenryck.bsky.social, Dir. of @georgiatechai.bsky.social will speak on building trustworthy, impactful AI systems: royalsoc.org.au/events/rsnsw-and-learned-academies-forum-2025

RSNSW and Learned Academies Forum 2025. AI: The Hope and the Hype - The Royal Society of NSW

Date: Thursday, 6 November 2025, 8.30 am for 9.00 am – 5.00 pm AEDT Venue:  Government House, Sydney: in person by invitation, and live-streaming Entry: No charge Please click here […]

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From high school intern to aspiring engineer, Sebastian Velastegui is already using AI to make an impact. Through our internship program, he helped develop a large language model for GT’s website. Read more about his story here: www.ai4opt.org/news-events/... #StudentSpotlight #AI #STEM #Education

Join us on Friday, October 24 at noon for a seminar with Cathy Wu, Career Development Associate Professor at MIT, as she explores how artificial intelligence is reshaping the future of transportation systems. www.ai4opt.org/news-events/... #AI #TransportationInnovation #Optimization #Sustainability

AI4OPT and Tech AI recently partnered with THG Advisor to host an executive showcase highlighting how artificial intelligence is transforming healthcare, energy, manufacturing, and more. Read more about the event and its impact: www.ai4opt.org/news-events/...

Two Georgia Tech Ph.D. @ai4opt.bsky.social students created a student-run, faculty-graded, fully-accredited course that links math, engineering and machine learning. b.gatech.edu/42ml2yT

Georgia Tech AI4OPT students created a student-run, faculty-graded, fully-accredited course exploring the connections between optimization, control, and modern learning methods. Read more about this innovative student-led model: www.ai4opt.org/news-events/...

The September 2025 AI4OPT Newsletter is here! Catch up on the latest in AI and optimization: mailchi.mp/f66c212d4136... Stay informed, subscribe here: ai4opt.us3.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=... #ArtificialIntelligence #Optimization #Engineering #TechNews #ThoughtLeadership

Today, we celebrated our financial manager, Lisa Salter, and her career with Georgia Tech. We are deeply grateful for Lisa and wish her all the best as she begins her next adventure. Lisa is also featured in our AI4OPT Newsletter mailchi.mp/f66c212d4136...