Zhaosong Lu is a Professor in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the University of Minnesota.

Title: First-Order Methods for Bilevel Optimization

Abstract: Bilevel optimization, also known as two-level optimization, is an important branch within mathematical optimization. It has found applications across various domains, including economics, logistics, supply chain,  transportation, engineering design, and machine learning. In this talk, we will present first-order methods...

Juan Ortner is an Associate Professor of Economics at Boston University.

Kristen Altenburger is a staff research scientist at Meta.

Title: Social Networks for Product Innovation

Abstract: Technological innovations have fundamentally transformed information flow and social behavior. As society’s digital platforms continue to promote instantaneous connectivity, network science can help advance machine learning and causal inference methods aimed at driving product innovation. This talk will first provide an overview of network science in machine learning applications...

R. Vijay Krishna is an Associate Professor of Economics at Florida State University.

Join us to hear from Fábio Moraes da Costa from the Tippie College of Business, University of Iowa & Fucape Business School - Vitória, Brazil, who will present "The effects of decoupling financial and tax reporting on earnings quality."

Abstract: A subset of E.U. countries that switched to IFRS for financial reporting in 2005 retained Local GAAP for the parent’s books which serves as the starting point for tax reporting, effectively decoupling financial and tax reporting. We find that for...

Chao Wang is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the University of Iowa. He will present "Statistical Transfer Learning for Modeling, Monitoring, and Prognosis."

Abstract: Transfer learning focuses on building relationship among different tasks so that shared information can be transferred from related source tasks to the target task. Various statistical models have been developed/applied to build such relationship and facilitate the transfer...