Talk Title: Provably Good Region Partitioning for On-Time Last-Mile Delivery Abstract: People expect faster delivery of goods ranging from groceries to medicines. Managing on-time delivery systems is challenging because of the underlying uncertainties and combinatorial nature of the routing decision. In practice, the efficiency of such systems also hinges on the driver's familiarity with the…

Talk Title Benefits of Randomization in First Order Algorithms for Min-Max Optimization Abstract Modern data science applications require solving high dimensional optimization problems with large number of data points. Min-max optimization provides a unified framework for many problems in this context ranging from empirical risk minimization and distributionally robust optimization in machine learning to medical…

Talk Title Optimal Rationing of Pooled Resources with Individual Service-Level Constraints Abstract Resource pooling is a fundamental concept in supply chain management for reducing and hedging uncertainty. An important problem in resource pooling is to decide (1) the capacity level of pooled resources in anticipation of random demand of multiple customers and (2) how the…