Sanae Lotfi, a graduate of the Master of research in applied mathematics, has received the Best Master’s Thesis Award of the Department of Mathematics and Industrial Engineering, Polytechnique Montréal.
Sanae Lotfi's thesis, "Stochastic first and second order optimization methods for machine learning", was co-directed by professors Andrea Lodi and Dominique Orban.
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Congradulation to Professors Sébastien Le Digabel, Charles Audet, Andrea Lodi and Dominique Orban! This grant totaling $781,500 is a partnership with Huawei Technologies and will focus on "Numerical Optimization and Machine Learning".
Andrea Lodi and Guy Desaulniers contacted to improve the distribution of molecular and serological tests for COVID-19 across Canada.
Seventeen GERAD professors appear in a ranking of research citations created in May 2020 and published on the Mendeley website, a search tool belonging to Elsevier, the Dutch scientific publisher.
Congratulations to the teams selected to lead new fundamental research projects!
Title: Machine learning algorithms in mixed-integer programming
Title: Confection de tournées de livraison dans un réseau urbain à l'aide de métaheuristiques et de méthodes de forage de données massives
Title: Optimal change point detection by error maximization
IVADO funding program for excellence scholarships – PhD
IVADO funding program for excellence scholarships – MSc
Title: Accelerating TSP solving by using cost-based solution densities of relaxations
Title: Predicting buses end-trip delay using different ML models in order to modelize planning effectiveness
Here are the winners who will each receive a half-fellowship of $25,000:
Congradulations to Margarida Carvalho who received the 2018 EURO Doctoral Dissertation Award for her thesis "Computation of equilibria on integer programming games". She was co-supervied by Professor Andrea Lodi from Polytechnique Montréal.
The purpose of the prize is to distinguish an outstanding doctoral dissertation in OR defended in the countries having an OR society that is a member of EURO.
Congratulations to Mathieu Tanneau, Ph.D. student at Polytechnique Montréal, who obtained the Doctoral research scholarship for foreign students from the FRQNT. The scholarship is $21,000/year.
Title: Learning activation functions in deep neural networks
Professor Andrea Lodi, Polytechnique Montréal, received the COAP 2016 best paper prize for the article "On handling indicator constraints in mixed integer programming", by P. Belotti, P. Bonami, M. Fischetti, A. Lodi, M. Monaci, A. Nogales-Gómez and D. Salvagnin.
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Title: A study on shape clustering and odor prediction
Giulia Zarpellon, a PhD student directed by Andrea Lodi, received an honorable mention for her poster presentation entitled "Learning a Classification of Mixed-Integer Quadratic Programming Problems" at the 2017 Mixed Integer Programming Workshop held in Montréal.
Two scholarships of $10 000 each respectively will be attributed to:
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Title: Large-scale assortment optimization
