From 17 to 21 August 2026, members of our chair participated in the ISIR Conference in Budapest with three presentations: Patrick Helm presented “Hard Constraints, Smooth Gradients: Learning Feasible Policies in General Inventory Networks via Differentiable Projection,” Till Krieger presented… [weiterlesen]

The paper “Dispatch or Hold? An Inverse Optimization and Reinforcement Learning Approach for Multiobjective On-Demand Delivery” by Yihua Wang, Long He, Zhengling Qi, and Stefan Minner has been published in Transportation Science. The study develops an inverse optimization and reinforcement learning… [weiterlesen]

The INFORMS Transportation Science and Logistics Conference brought the TSL research community to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, USA. At the conference, Nicolas Kuttruff presented “Heterogeneous Fleet Routing under Environmental Budget Constraints”, co-authored with… [weiterlesen]

Tim Kröger received the GOR (Gesellschaft für Operations Research e.V.) Bachelor’s Thesis Award for the summer semester 2026 for his thesis “User-Centric Evaluation of GPT-4o-Mini for Solving the Price-Setting Newsvendor Problem,” supervised by Dr. Mahsa Abbaszadeh Nakhost and Prof. Dr. Stefan… [weiterlesen]

DENK PHARMA offers students the opportunity to gain practical experience in the supply chain management of an internationally operating pharmaceutical company. The internship includes supporting analyses of inventory levels and supplier performance, as well as contributing to projects aimed at… [weiterlesen]

During the M&SOM Conference, held at Harvard Business School from July 12 to 14, Till Krieger gave a talk on “Dynamic Assortment Optimization under Low, Non-Stationary, and Partially Observable Demand.” The research is co-authored by Patrick Helm and Stefan Minner. [weiterlesen]