Workshop on AI for Optimisation and Decision Making 2025

20 February 2025

LBLT118, Laby Building, Victoria University of Wellington Kelburn Campus

Welcome to the Workshop on AI for Optimisation and Decision Making 2025! This Workshop aims to bring together researchers and stakeholders in New Zealand who are interested in AI and its applications to optimisation and decision making domains and provide opportunties to establish possible collaborations that will lead to benefits to New Zealand and the world.

The Workshop is organised by A/Prof. Yi Mei, sponsored by the New Zealand Royal Society Catalyst Leaders Fund and Center for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence, Victoria University of Wellington.


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Keynote Speaker

Prof. Guenther Raidl, TU Wien, Austria

Günther Raidl is Professor at the Institute of Logic and Computation, TU Wien, Austria, and member of the Algorithms and Complexity Group. He received his PhD in 1994 and completed his habilitation in Practical Computer Science in 2003 at TU Wien. In 2005 he received a professorship position for combinatorial optimization at TU Wien.

His research interests include algorithms and data structures in general and combinatorial optimization in particular, with a specific focus on metaheuristics, mathematical programming, intelligent search methods, and hybrid optimization approaches. His research work typically combines theory and practice for application areas such as scheduling, network design, transport optimization, logistics, and cutting and packing.

Günther Raidl is associate editor for the INFORMS Journal on Computing, the ACM Transactions on Evolutionary Learning and Optimization and at the editorial board of several journals including Algorithms, Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, and Metaheuristics. He is co-founder and steering committee member of the annual European Conference on Evolutionary Computation in Combinatorial Optimization (EvoCOP). Since 2016 he is also founding faculty member of the Vienna Graduate School on Computational Optimization.

Günther Raidl has co-authored a text book on hybrid metaheuristics and over 190 reviewed articles in scientific journals, books, and conference proceedings. Moreover, he has co-edited 13 books. More information can be found at http://www.ac.tuwien.ac.at/raidl.


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Program


9:00 - 9:30: Opening

9:30 - 10:30: Keynote speech by Prof. Guenther Raidl

10:30 - 11:00: Morning tea

11:00 - 11:40: Session 1

11:40 - 13:00: Lunch break

13:00 - 15:00: Session 2

15:00 - 15:30: Afternoon tea

15:30 - 16:30: Panel on opportunities for AI optimisation and decision making in NZ

16:30 - 17:00: Closing and networking


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Venue

The Workshop will be held in LBLT118, Level 1, Laby Building, Victoria University of Wellington.

Below is the workshop location shown in Google Map. It shows the Alan MacDiarmid Building, which is right next to the Laby Building.


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Registration

Please fill in this form for registration.

Please contact the Workshop organiser Yi Mei if you have any inquiries.


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