Plenary Speakers (A-Z)

Ulrike Leopold-Wildburger

University of Graz, Austria
SOME RESULTS FROM BEHAVIOURAL ECONOMICS

Abstract available soon.

Full professor, emeritus

Member of the European Academy of Sciences/Academia Europea/London

Editor in Chief: Central European Journal of Operations Research.

Department of Operations and Information Systems, University of Graz/Austria

Studies in mathematics, philosophy and logic, University of Graz/Austria and University of Oslo,

Habilitation for Operations Research and Mathematical Economics under Wolfgang EICHHORN/KIT, Reinhard SELTEN, Nobel Laureate in Economics 1994, and John HARSANYI, Nobel Laureate in Economics 1994.

1988/89 Full Professor at the department of Operations Research, University of Zurich, Switzerland,

2001-2003 dean of studies, faculty of Economics and Social Sciences, Univ. of Graz/Austria

Visiting Professor at: University of Vienna; Grande École, Nancy; University of St. Gallen; Concordia College, Moorhead, USA; University of Kopenhagen Harvard University (visiting fellow), permanent visiting professor University of Kalmar, Sweden; Europ. University Institute, Fiesole, Italy.

Several Grants by Austrian Science Foundation and research Fellowships on Data Analysis.

Several National and International Awards,

* Since 2011 Member of the European Academy of Sciences/Academia Europea,

* 2021 European Distinguished Service Award by EURO,

* Since 2000 EURO Working Group: E- Cube: European Experimental Economics,

Since 2000 Editor in Chief: Central European Journal of Operations Research,

Research Council Member, European University Institute, Florence,

Approx.: 220 scientific presentations worldwide, invited lectures, semi plenary and plenary lectures, and keynote talks;

More than 200 scientific publications, mainly in scientific journals, 27 monographs.

David Simchi-Levi

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, US
Reinventing Operations Management’s Research and Practice with Data Science

In this talk we show how data-driven research fosters the development of new engineering and scientific methods that explain, predict, and change behavior. We report on a few projects with online and brick-and-mortar retailers where we combine machine learning, optimization and econometrics techniques to improve business performance.

David Simchi-Levi is a Professor of Engineering Systems at MIT and serves as the head of the MIT Data Science Lab. He is considered one of the premier thought leaders in supply chain management and business analytics.

Professor Simchi-Levi is the former Editor-in-Chief of Management Science (2018-2023), one of the two flagship journals of INFORMS. He served as the Editor-in-Chief for Operations Research (2006-2012), the other flagship journal of INFORMS and for Naval Research Logistics (2003-2005).

In 2023, he was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering. In 2020, he was awarded the prestigious INFORMS Impact Prize for playing a leading role in developing and disseminating a new highly impactful paradigm for the identification and mitigation of risks in global supply chains.

He is an INFORMS Fellow and MSOM Distinguished Fellow and the recipient of the 2020 INFORMS Koopman Award given to an outstanding publication in military operations research; Ford Motor Company 2015 Engineering Excellence Award; 2014 INFORMS Daniel H. Wagner Prize for Excellence in Operations Research Practice; 2014 INFORMS Revenue Management and Pricing Section Practice Award; and 2009 INFORMS Revenue Management and Pricing Section Prize.

He was the founder of LogicTools which provided software solutions and professional services for supply chain optimization. LogicTools became part of IBM in 2009. In 2012 he co-founded OPS Rules, an operations analytics consulting company. The company became part of Accenture in 2016. In 2014, he co-founded Opalytics, a cloud analytics platform company focusing on operations and supply chain decisions. The company became part of the Accenture Applied Intelligence in 2018.

Kalyan Talluri

Imperial College London, UK

Abstract available soon.

Kalyan Talluri is a Professor of Operations Management in the Department of Management. He obtained his PhD in Operations Research from MIT, a Masters in Industrial Engineering from Purdue University and a B.Tech in Mechanical Engineering from Osmania University, Hyderabad. He had previously taught at Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University and the Dept. of Economics at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona. He also worked at US Airways for three years prior to that. He has held visiting positions at the Indian School of Business, New York University, INSEAD and Dartmouth College.

Professor Talluri’s research interests are in network and service design, data analytics, transportation, revenue management and pricing.

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