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We are searching for a student assistant (m/f/d) starting April 1, 2024 or earlier. The workload would be between 8 and 12 hours weekly. In the project "digital logistics", we support innovative logistics concepts by developing data-driven optimization methods. To achieve high user acceptance,…

The article "Bilevel optimization for feature selection in the data-driven newsvendor problem" by Breno Serrano, Stefan Minner, Maximilian Schiffer, and Thibaut Vidal was accepted for publication in European Journal of Operational Research. The article can be found here.

We are searching for a Working Student (m/f/d) starting April 1, 2024 or earlier. The workload would be between 8 and 12 hours weekly. This position is an excellent opportunity to contribute to an innovative project focusing on the analysis and optimization of global transportation and logistics.…

The article "Deep reinforcement learning for demand fulfillment in online retail" by Yihua Wang and Stefan Minner was accepted for publication in International Journal of Production Economics. The article can be found here.

Donghao Zhu, former research associate at the chair of Logistics and Supply Chain Management and part of the research training group "Advanced Optimization in a Networked Economy", successfully defended his doctoral thesis with the title "On-Demand Service Platform Design". In his dissertation, he…

We're very happy to welcome Patrick Helm (B.Sc.) , Dipl.-Ing. Till Nikolaus Krieger (M.Sc.) and Nicolas Kuttruff (M.Sc.) as new colleagues in our team! Patrick Helm researches Inventory Management using Stochastic Optimization, Markov Decision Processes, and Reinforcement Learning. He has…

Stefan Minner joined the Editorial Board of the Informs journal Operations Research. He is now an Associate Editor. For more information, see here.