Thiago Serra (@thserra.bsky.social)

Assistant professor at @UIowa, formerly at @BucknellU, mathematical optimizer with #orms PhD from @CarnegieMellon, proud father of two

[Thiago Serra (@thserra.bsky.social) @thserra]

In case you missed @CalvinTsay's tweet, we have just released a survey along with @gmunoz_m and Joey Huchette on polyhedral theory in deep learning: https://t.co/W0Y2kdcIFe

This thread covers the main points, why we did this, and why you should care about it. Read along!

#orms

[INFORMS Comp Society @ICS_Informs]

The 2024 ICS Distinguished Service Award was presented to Robin Lougee

[INFORMS Comp Society @ICS_Informs]

The 2024 ICS Harvey J Greenberg Research Award was presented to Selvaprabu Nadarajah (University of Illinois Chicago) and Andre Cire (University of Toronto) for their paper "Self-adapting network relaxations for weakly coupled Markov decision processes"

[INFORMS Comp Society @ICS_Informs]

The 2024 ICS Student Paper Award winner is Shuvomoy Das Gupta (MIT) for the paper "Branch-and-Bound Performance Estimation Programming: A Unified Methodology for Constructing Optimal Optimization Methods," co-authored with Bart P.G. Van Parys, and Ernest K. Ryu

[INFORMS Comp Society @ICS_Informs]

The 2024 ICS Student Paper Award committee identified two runner-ups for the Award: Jie Wang (Georgia Tech) and Jiachang Liu (Duke University)

[INFORMS Comp Society @ICS_Informs]

The 2022 ICS prize was awarded to Krishnakumar Balasubramanian (UC Davis), Shixiang Chen (USTC), Jiaxiang Li (Uni of Minnesota), Shiqian Ma (Rice), Anthony Man-Cho So (CUHK), and Tong Zhang (UIUC)

[Tallys Yunes @thyunes]

Many people I hadn’t met before stopped me at #INFORMS2024 to tell me they either have or plan to assign some of my teaching materials to their students (games and/or YouTube videos). That fills my heart with joy! Thank you! ❤️ Let me know what your students thought, please!

I was also asked to create games on other topics. I’ll try my best!

[Thiago Serra (@thserra.bsky.social) @thserra]

@Karmel_Shehadeh @lehigh_ise @INFORMS Those little hands 😍

[Ryan Cory-Wright @RyanCoryWright]

Delighted to share that our paper “Sparse PCA With Multiple Components”(w/ Jean Pauphilet) has been awarded first place in the 2024 INFORMS DMDA workshop paper competition-theoretical track. Thanks to the organizers for a fun event!

[Thiago Serra (@thserra.bsky.social) @thserra]

Are you attending the @INFORMS Annual Meeting and also thinking about pursuing a PhD? Come talk with me about the PhD program at @TippieAnalytics 😁

For more information: https://t.co/tnKm403Nq8

If you are not attending the meeting, do reach out online!

#informs2024 #orms

[Thiago Serra (@thserra.bsky.social) @thserra]

@gabepgomes INFORMS?

[Thiago Serra (@thserra.bsky.social) @thserra]

@nandofioretto Coming from AA, not a surprise…

[Thiago Serra (@thserra.bsky.social) @thserra]

@kyrib She looks so much like you!

[Thiago Serra (@thserra.bsky.social) @thserra]

@kyrib Perfect staring 😍

[Tallys Yunes @thyunes]

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[Thiago Serra (@thserra.bsky.social) @thserra]

@anncampbelliowa @engamirahijazi @AI4OPT Amira herself. She picked me up, we stopped by her favorite coffee shop, and she brought me to their office.

[Sara Spector @Miriam2626]

I prosecuted sexual assault cases in Texas.
I prosecuted these cases for 17 years.
I never prosecuted an undocumented immigrant for rape.
I prosecuted multiple Christian pastors for rape.
As a descendant of a holocaust survivor, I have to speak up against this hate.

[Hamsa Bastani @hamsabastani]

Pardon the brag but SO excited to see our paper at the top of @newsycombinator (for like 15 mins). Usually only 15 people read our papers 😅

@obastani @Alpsungu @HaosenGe Ozge Rei @WhartonAIAI

[Eduardo Uchoa @ed_uchoa]

Excited to release Part I of Optimizing with Column Generation. Not a draft. Two years of hard work led to 300 pages covering CG principles in depth. Check https://t.co/njDTUaCJmf Your feedback will help us with the forthcoming Part II on advanced techniques!

[Tippie Analytics @TippieAnalytics]

As the new semester begins, we are thrilled to welcome four new faculty members (from left to right)--@thserra, @feng_mai, @luo_or and Mengxiao Zhang. Their expertise in various areas of machine learning further strengthens our research and teaching in artificial intelligence!