Innovative research from guest lecturers
High-profile researchers from within the business analytics field have been invited to present at Tippie to an audience of faculty, PhD students, and researchers from around the University of Iowa. Join us for an upcoming guest speaker as part of our series.
Seminars
Spring 2026
Spring 2026
| Date | Speaker |
|---|---|
| 2/6/2026 | Jonathan Eckstein Rutgers University Professor, Management Science and Information Systems |
| 2/13/2026 | Mochen Yang University of Minnesota Associate Professor, Information and Decision Sciences |
| 2/20/2026 | Boxiang Wang University of Iowa Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies, Statistics and Actuarial Science |
| 2/27/2026 | Yunzong Xu University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Associate Professor, Industrial and Enterprise Systems Engineering |
| 3/6/2026 | Matthias Winkenbach Massachusetts Institute of Technology Director of Research and Principal Research Scientist |
Fall 2025
Fall 2025
| Date | Speaker |
|---|---|
| 9/12/2025 | Yuan Liao University of Iowa Professor, Economics |
| 9/19/2025 | Ilya Ryzhov University of Maryland Professor, Decision Sciences |
| 10/10/2025 | Joseph Paat University of British Columbia Associate Professor, Operations and Logistics |
Spring 2025
Spring 2025
| DATE | SPEAKER |
|---|---|
| 1/24/2025 | Beryl Chen University of TOPIC: Optimal Policies for Dynamic Pricing and Inventory Control with Nonparametric Censored Demands |
| 2/28/2025 | Fatma Kilinc Karzan University of TOPIC: Mistake, Manipulation, and Margin Guarantees in Online Strategic Classification |
| 3/28/2025 | Matthieu Dahan University of TOPIC: Strategic Coordination of Imperfect Detection Resources in Network Inspection Games |
| 4/11/2025 | Christian Kroer University of TOPIC: Competitive Equilibrium for Chores: from Dual Eisenberg-Gale to a Fast, Greedy, LP-based Algorithm |
Fall 2024
Fall 2024
| DATE | SPEAKER |
|---|---|
| 9/13/2024 | Weiran Wang University of Iowa Assistant Professor, Computer Science |
| 9/20/2024 | Muchao Ye University of Iowa Assistant Professor, Computer Science |
| 11/8/2024 | Mark Beradi University of TOPIC: Interpretable Machine Learning for Clinical Voice Analysis |
| 11/22/2024 | Andy Luse University of TOPIC: The Impact of Corporate Russian Withdrawal Announcements: The Dueling Forces of Online Social Activism, Organizational Reputation Management, and Investor Reaction |
Spring 2024
Spring 2024
| DATE | SPEAKER |
|---|---|
| 3/29/2024 | Mehrdad Moharrami University of Iowa TOPIC: A Policy Gradient Algorithm for the Risk-Sensitive Exponential Cost MDP |
| 4/9/2024 | Chao Wang University of Iowa TOPIC: Statistical Transfer Learning for Modeling, Monitoring, and Prognosis |
| 4/12/2024 | Kristen Altenburger Meta TOPIC: Social Networks for Product Innovation |
| 4/19/2024 | Zhaosong Lu University of Minnesota TOPIC: First-Order Methods for Bilevel Optimization |
Fall 2023
Fall 2023
| DATE | SPEAKER |
|---|---|
| 9/29/2023 | Benjamin Grimmer Johns Hopkins University Assistant Professor, Department of Applied Math and Statistics |
| 12/8/2023 | Marcia Fampa Federal University of Rio de Janeiro Professor, Systems and Computer Engineering |
Fall 2022
Fall 2022
| DATE | SPEAKER |
|---|---|
| August 26 | Stephen Wright University of Wisconsin-Madison TOPIC: Optimization Theory and Practice |
| September 9 | David Woodruff University of California-Davis Graduate School Management TOPIC: Computational Issues in Stochastic Programming for Management Problems |
| September 16 | Jingyuan Yang George Mason University TOPIC: Acqui-hiring or Acqui-quitting: Data-Driven Post-M&A Turnover Prediction via a Dual-fit Model |
| September 23 | Miguel Lejeune George Washington University TOPIC: Drone-Network Design Queueing MINLP Model for Time-Sensitive Medical Events Bio and abstract |
| October 7 | PhD Practice Talk |
| October 19 | Galit Shmueli National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan TOPIC: Leveraging covariates in randomized experiments guided by causal diagrams Bio and abstract |
| October 28 | Robert Bray Northwestern University TOPIC: Logarithmic Regret in Multisecretary and Online Linear Programming Problems with Continuous Valuations |
| November 4 | Abhay Mishra Iowa State University |
| November 30 | Annabelle Feng Purdue University TOPIC: Operational Data Analytics for Newsvendors Bio and abstract |
Spring and Summer 2022
Spring and Summer 2022
| DATE | SPEAKER |
|---|---|
| March 25 11:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. S401 PBB |
Danial Davarnia Iowa State University TOPIC: Solving mixed integer programs via decision diagrams (pdf) |
| April 1 11:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. Zoom |
Kristin Bennett Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute TOPIC: AI for Health Equity (pdf) |
| April 8 10:00-11:00 a.m. S121 PBB |
Rahul Mazumder MIT TOPIC: Sparse Learning at Scale: Convex, Mixed Integer Programming, and Statistical Perspectives (pdf) |
| April 15 10:00-11:00 a.m. S121 PBB |
Negar Soheili University of Illinois Chicago TOPIC: On the Projection and Rescaling Algorithm (pdf) |
| April 22 11:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. Zoom |
Paola Scaparra University of Kent TOPIC: How can analytics support the Sustainable Development Goals? A real-life example in Vietnam (pdf) |
| May 6 11:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. S121 PBB |
Anindita Bandyopadhyay and Brianna Mueller TOPIC: First Year PhD Presentation |
| July 13 11:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. S121 PBB |
Liana van der Hagen Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University TOPIC: Machine Learning-Based Feasibility Checks for Dynamic Time Slot Management (pdf) |
Fall 2021
Fall 2021
| DATE | SPEAKER |
|---|---|
| September 24 11:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. |
Emma Frejinger Université de Montréal TOPIC: Periodic Demand Estimation for Large-Scale Tactical Planning (pdf) |
| October 1 11:00 a.m.-11:55 a.m. |
Abhijeet Ghoshal University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign TOPIC: Preserving Degree Distributions When Sampling from Networks (pdf) |
| October 29 11:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. |
Hong Guo University of Notre Dame TOPIC: Measuring algorithmic interpretability: A human-learning-based framework and the corresponding cognitive complexity score (pdf) |
| November 12 11:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. |
Thiago Serra Bucknell University TOPIC: What Makes Neural Networks So Expressive, and What Could Make Them Smaller? Some Answers Based on Polyhedral Theory and Mixed-Integer Linear Programming (pdf) |
Spring 2021
Spring 2021
| DATE | SPEAKER |
|---|---|
| February 5 11:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. |
Dr. Linwei Xin University of Chicago TOPIC: Multi-Item Online Order Fulfillment in a Two-Layer Network |
| February 12 - March 19 | Thought Leaders: Tippie Seminar Series Join us for six talks by top researchers in business analytics |
| April 2 11:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. |
Dr. Guodong (Gordon) Gao University of Maryland TOPIC: Friend or Foe? How Artificial Intelligence Affects Human Performance in Medical Chart Coding |
| April 9 11:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. |
Business Analytics PhD Students TOPIC: First Year Presentations |
| April 16 11:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. |
Dr. Giacomo Nannicini IBM Research TOPIC: A Snapshot of Quantum Algorithms for Optimization |
| May 7 11:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. |
Dr. Amy Ward University of Chicago TOPIC: Matching Impatient and Heterogeneous Demand and Supply |
Fall 2020
Fall 2020
| DATE | SPEAKER |
|---|---|
| September 25 11:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. |
Dr. Justin Goodson St. Louis University TOPIC: Optimal Service Time Windows |
| October 30 11:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. |
Sara Reed TOPIC: Value of Autonomous Vehicles in Last-Mile Delivery on the Urban-Rural Continuum |
| November 6 11:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. |
Kurt Anstreicher University of Iowa TOPIC: Testing Copositivity via Mixed-Integer Linear Programming |
| November 20 11:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. |
Dr. Grani Hanasusanto University of Texas at Austin TOPIC: Finding Minimum Volume Circumscribing Ellipsoids Using Generalized Copositive Programming |
| December 4 11:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. |
Dr. Siqian Shen University of Michigan TOPIC: Multistage Distributionally Robust Mixed-Integer Programming with Decision-Dependent Ambiguity Sets |
| December 11 11:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. |
Dr. Cynthia Rudin Duke University TOPIC: Do Simpler Models Exist and How Can We Find Them? |
Fall 2019
Fall 2019
| DATE | SPEAKER |
|---|---|
| September 6 9:30-11:00 a.m. |
Marlin Ulmer |
| September 13 9:30-11:00 a.m. |
Laura Albert University of Wisconsin Madison |
| October 11 9:30-11:00 a.m. |
Subodha Kumar Temple University |
| October 25 9:30-11:00 a.m. |
Florian Potra University of Maryland, Baltimore County |
| November 1 9:30-11:00 a.m. |
Wenjun Zhou University of Tennessee Knoxville |
Spring 2019
Spring 2019
| DATE | SPEAKER |
|---|---|
| March 1 9:30-11:00 a.m. |
Xinshang Wang Alibaba Group DAMO Academy TOPIC: Inventory Balancing with Online Learning (pdf) |
| March 15 9:30-11:00 a.m. |
Charlotte Köhler Otto von Guericke University, Germany TOPIC: Dynamic Flexible Time Window Pricing |
| April 5 9:30-11:00 a.m. |
Kai Larsen University of Colorado-Boulder TOPIC: Employing Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning to Improve Psychometrics: Can we Develop a Distance Measure for Constructs in IS, Management, and Psychology? |
| April 19 9:30-11:00 a.m. |
Xiao Fang University of Delaware TOPIC: A Deep Learning Approach to Industry Classification |
| April 26 9:30-11:00 a.m. |
Johanna Amaya Leal Iowa State University TOPIC: Social Costs and Districting after Disaster |
Fall 2018
Fall 2018
| DATE | SPEAKER |
|---|---|
| September 14 9:30-11:00 a.m. |
Peter I. Frazier School of Operations Research and Information Engineering Cornell University TOPIC: Bayesian Optimization in the Tech Sector (pdf) |
|
October 12 |
Ahmed Abbasi McIntire School of Commerce University of Virginia TOPIC: Finding Needles in a Haystack: Deep Learning for Rare Adverse Event Detection |
| November 30 9:30-11:00 a.m. |
Jeff Linderoth Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering University of Wisconsin-Madison TOPIC: Perspectives on Integer Programming in Sparse Optimization (pdf) |
| December 7 10:00-11:20 a.m. |
Guanglin Xu Institute for Mathematics and Its Applications University of Minnesota TOPIC: Improved Decision Rule Approximations for Multi-Stage Robust Optimization (pdf) |
Spring 2018
Spring 2018
| DATE | SPEAKER |
|---|---|
|
April 27 |
Kyungchan Park, Yichen Ding, Vahid Eghbal Akhlaghi, and Jafar Namdar TOPIC: First Year PhD Presentation |
| May 5 | Jeffrey Hu George Institute of Technology |
Fall 2017
Fall 2017
| DATE | SPEAKER |
|---|---|
| September 29 2:30–3:20 p.m. C107 PBB |
Maytal Saar-Tsechansky McCombs School of Business The University of Texas at Austin TOPIC: "More for Less: Adaptive Labeling Payment for Online Labor Markets" |
| October 13 2:30–3:20 p.m. |
Madhu Reddy Northwestern University TOPIC: "Reflecting on 15 years of research at the intersection of Human-Computer Interaction and Medical Informatics: A sociotechnical perspective on collaboration" |
| October 18 1:30–3:20 p.m. W107 PBB |
INFORMS Practice Seminar Presenters: Michael Redmond, John Rios, Amin Vahedian, and Bhupesh Shetty |
| November 6 9:30-11:00 a.m. W307 PBB |
Patrick Fan Virginia Tech TOPIC: "Combining Machine Intelligence and Human Intelligence for Effective Pharmacovigilance: A Deep Learning-Based Multi-Source Feature Ensemble Approach" |
| December 1 9:30-11:00 a.m. W207 PBB |
Indranil Bardhan University of Texas at Dallas TOPIC: "Are Online Reviews of Physicians Reliable Indicators of Clinical Outcomes?" |
Summer 2017
Summer 2017
| DATE | SPEAKER |
|---|---|
| July 24 3:30–4:30 p.m. S121 PBB |
Yongjia Song Virginia Commonwealth University |
| August 3 3:30–4:30 p.m. S121 PBB |
Marlin Ulmer Carl-Friedrich Gauss Department Technische Universität Braunschweig |
Spring 2017
Spring 2017
| DATE | SPEAKER |
|---|---|
| January 20 10:30–11:30 a.m. W401 PBB |
Dashun Wang Northwestern University TOPIC: Understanding Success in Science and Technology (pdf) |
| February 24 2:30–3:20 p.m. |
Foster Provost Stern School of Business, New York University TOPIC: The Predictive Power of Massive Data about our Fine-Grained Behavior (pdf) |
| March 24 2:30–3:30 p.m. |
Susan M. Sanchez Naval Postgraduate School |
| April 7 2:30–3:30 p.m. |
Maytal Saar-Tsechansky McCombs School of Business The University of Texas at Austin |
| April 14 2:30–3:30 p.m. |
Garud Iyengar Industrial Engineering and Operations Research Columbia University TOPIC: Linear Convergence of Stochastic Frank Wolfe Variants (pdf) |
| May 4 2:30–3:30 p.m. |
1st-Year PhD Presentation |
| May 5 2:30–3:30 p.m. |
Olivia Sheng Department of Operations and Information Systems University of Utah |
| September 8 or September 15 2:30–3:30 p.m. |
Tom Van Woensel School of Industrial Engineering Eindhoven University of Technology |
| September 29 2:30–3:30 p.m. |
Maytal Saar-Tsechansky McCombs School of Business The University of Texas at Austin |
| October 13 2:30–3:30 p.m. |
Madhu Reddy Northwestern |
Fall 2016
Fall 2016
| DATE | SPEAKER |
|---|---|
| October 7 2:30–3:30 p.m. |
Prof. Tianbao Yang Department of Computer Science University of Iowa TOPIC: Improving the Generalization of Deep Learning (pdf) |
| October 21 2:30–3:30 p.m. |
Zhenzhen Yan National University of Singapore TOPIC: Disruption Risk Mitigation in Supply Chains: The Risk Exposure Index Revisited (pdf) |
| October 28 2:30–3:30 p.m. |
Prof. Sanvesh Srivastava Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science University of Iowa TOPIC: Scalable Bayes via Barycenter in Wasserstein Space (pdf) |
| November 4 10:30–11:30 a.m |
Prof. Aaron Clauset University of Colorado, Boulder TOPIC: The Ground Truth about Metadata and Community Detection in Networks (pdf) |
| November 11 2:30–3:30 p.m. |
PhD Students Business Analytics TOPIC: INFORMS talk practice session |