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Machine Learning and Supply Chain Management Workshop | December 13-14, 2021

Iacocca Conference Center, Lehigh University Mountaintop Campus 
All presentations were held in the Wood Dining Room, Iacocca Hall (2nd Floor)

Monday, December 13, 2021

Times shown are in US Eastern Standard Time (EST)

Time (EST)

Title

Presenter

LINK

8:15AM 

Breakfast and Registration

 

 

9:00AM

Opening Remarks

Dean Steve DeWeerth, Lehigh University

 

9:15AM

Same-Day Delivery with Fair Customer Service

Barrett Thomas, University of Iowa

Video

10:00AM

Predicting Human Discretion to Adjust Algorithmic Prescription: A Large-Scale Field Experiment In Warehouse Operations

Jiankun Sun, Imperial College London

Video

10:30AM

Break

 

 

10:45AM

Can Deep Reinforcement Learning Improve Inventory Management? Performance on Dual Sourcing, Lost Sales and Multi-Echelon Problems

Joren Gijsbrechts, Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Portugal

Video

11:30AM

Almost Matching Exactly for Observational Causal Inference

Cynthia Rudin, Duke University

Video

12:00

Lunch

 

 

1:15PM

Algorithmic Tools for US Congressional Districting: Fairness via Analytics

David B. Shmoys, Cornell University

Video

2:00PM

From Small to Large Data – How Can We Leverage Synthetic Data for ML in Operations & Supply Chain Management?

Richard Pibernik, Julius-Maximilians University of Wuerzburg, Germany

Video

2:45PM

Break

 

 

3:00 PM

Panel Discussion. "Here Today, Better Tomorrow" - Machine Learning in Practice & Supply Chain. Moderated by Jan van Mieghem, Northwestern University

Panelists: Barrett Thomas; Richard Pibernick, Mike Watson and Swati Gupta

Video

4:15PM

Break

 

 

4:30PM

How to Make Sure Machine Learning Has an Impact on Supply Chains

Polly Mitchell-Guthrie, Kinaxis

Video

5:15PM-6:30PM

 

Reception & Student Poster Session. Building C Lobby, Mountaintop Campus

Evening free following the reception. Dinner on your own

Poster Abstracts

 

 

Tuesday, December 14, 2021

Times shown are in US Eastern Standard Time (EST)

TimE (EST)

Title

Presenter

 Link

8:30AM 

Breakfast and Registration

 

 

9:00AM

A Practical End-to-End Inventory Management Model with Deep Learning

Zuo-Jun Max Shen, UC-Berkeley / University of Hong Kong

Video

9:30AM

Opportunities for Ethical ML and Supply Chains

Swati Gupta, Georgia Tech

Video

10:15AM

Break

 

 

10:30AM

Data-driven Stochastic Vehicle Routing Problem and Job Shop Using Reinforcement Learning

Martin Takac, Lehigh University / Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence, UAE

Video

11:00AM

Heuristics for Mixed-Integer Optimization Through a Machine Learning Lens

Andrea Lodi, Cornell Tech

Video

11:45AM

Lunch

 

 

1:00PM

Chips and Beer: Using Machine Learning to Optimize Inventory

Larry Snyder, Lehigh University

Video

1:45PM

AI/ML Applications for Industry: The Proven and Future Direction

Michael Watson, Coupa Software

Video

2:30PM

Closing Remarks

Larry Snyder & Jan van Mieghem