Overview
Held each fall, the annual meeting brings together over 6,000 people to the world's largest operations research and analytics conference. It features more than 800 sessions and presentations, opportunities to meet with leading companies, universities and other exhibitors, an onsite career fair connecting top talent with over 100 organizations at the forefront of O.R. and analytics application, and other networking and educational events.
Sponsorship Details
Amazon committee
Sessions
Daniel H. Wagner Prize
November 1
Website: LINK
Presentations:
"Amazon optimizes charging and routing in last-mile electric delivery", 8:35-9:10am, presented by Arun Akkinepally, Andre Snoeck, Harry Birnbaum, Alexander Svozil, Daniel Merchan
Room: Moscone South-23 (Exhibit Level)
Large Scale Network Design at Amazon
November 1
Website: Link
Presentations:
Benders decomposition for large-scale hub network design, 11-11:25am, presented by Ozgun Elci
"Inventory management with distribution centers", 11:25-11:50am, presented by Xiaoyan Si
"End-to-end fulfillment network design", 11:50am-12:15pm, presented by Lea Kapelevich, Shanshan Zhang
Presentations:
Benders decomposition for large-scale hub network design, 11-11:25am, presented by Ozgun Elci
"Inventory management with distribution centers", 11:25-11:50am, presented by Xiaoyan Si
"End-to-end fulfillment network design", 11:50am-12:15pm, presented by Lea Kapelevich, Shanshan Zhang
Under the Roof Process Design and Optimization
November 1
Website: LINK
Session Chair: Nikolaos Lappas
Presentations:
"Capacity planning for sort centers (SC) sites: an optimization framework with AI-enabled decision support", 2:45-3pm, presented by Te Xu, Dennis Lee, Sharlene Chen, Matias Siebert
"A generative layout design framework using simulation-optimization", 3-3:15pm, presented by Zihao Li
"Optimizing chute-to-sort-point assignments in Amazon sort centers", 3:15-3:30pm, presented by Shutian Li, Mohsen Mohammadi, Zhongxiang Wang
"Optimal zone assignment for multi-item order picking in robotic fulfillment centers", 3:30-3:45pm, presented by SMA Bin Al Islam, Michael Caldara, Mouhacine Benosman
"Capacity-constrained optimization for AWS partner recommendations", 3:45-4pm, Elif Gokce, Brian Verkhovsky, Akshay Menon, Krystle DuBeau
Room: Marriott Marquis-Sierra F (5th Floor)
Session Chair: Nikolaos Lappas
Presentations:
"Capacity planning for sort centers (SC) sites: an optimization framework with AI-enabled decision support", 2:45-3pm, presented by Te Xu, Dennis Lee, Sharlene Chen, Matias Siebert
"A generative layout design framework using simulation-optimization", 3-3:15pm, presented by Zihao Li
"Optimizing chute-to-sort-point assignments in Amazon sort centers", 3:15-3:30pm, presented by Shutian Li, Mohsen Mohammadi, Zhongxiang Wang
"Optimal zone assignment for multi-item order picking in robotic fulfillment centers", 3:30-3:45pm, presented by SMA Bin Al Islam, Michael Caldara, Mouhacine Benosman
"Capacity-constrained optimization for AWS partner recommendations", 3:45-4pm, Elif Gokce, Brian Verkhovsky, Akshay Menon, Krystle DuBeau
Room: Marriott Marquis-Sierra F (5th Floor)
Planning the Amazon Supply Chain at Scale: Warehouses, Labor, and Network Optimization
November 1
Website: LINK
Session Chair: Yunan Liu
Presentations:
Bobak McCann
"Multi-echelon flow optimization for Amazon;s fulfillment network", 4:30-4:45pm, presented by Yifei Sun,Bobak McCann
"Strategic capacity planning for Amazon: a bi-level optimization approach", 4:45-5pm, presented by Xinyu Fei, Yunan Liu
"Integrated labor capacity and inbound planning in short-term supply chain optimization", 5-5:15pm, presented by Yunan Liu, Xiaoyue Liu,
Yifei Sun, Steven Klee, Logan Smith, Rett Grant
"Modeling delivery-speed elasticity and revenue lift in Amazon supply chains, 5:15-5:30pm, presented by Martin Liu
Room: Marriott Marquis - Sierra F (5th Floor)
Session Chair: Yunan Liu
Presentations:
"Multi-echelon flow optimization for Amazon;s fulfillment network", 4:30-4:45pm, presented by Yifei Sun,
"Strategic capacity planning for Amazon: a bi-level optimization approach", 4:45-5pm, presented by Xinyu Fei, Yunan Liu
"Integrated labor capacity and inbound planning in short-term supply chain optimization", 5-5:15pm, presented by Yunan Liu, Xiaoyue Liu,
Yifei Sun, Steven Klee, Logan Smith, Rett Grant
"Modeling delivery-speed elasticity and revenue lift in Amazon supply chains, 5:15-5:30pm, presented by Martin Liu
Room: Marriott Marquis - Sierra F (5th Floor)
Economic Intelligence in Returns and Recommerce: Lessons from Amazon
November 2
Website: LINK
Session Chair 1: Wedad Elmaghraby
Session Chair 2: Tara Mardan
Presentations:
"The casual effect of customer service wait times on purchasing and re-engagement", 8-8:15am, presented by Daniel Asfaw, Ebru Kasikaralar, Xin Liu, Stephanie Mao, Azeem Shaikh
"Resolution doesn't pay, humans do: decomposing the customer spending impact of customer service quality", 8:15-8:30am, presented by Hayoung Chen
"Choosing the right objective: a free cash flow approach to resale pricing", 8:30-8:45am, presented by Joe Cooprider
"Quantifying the value of Amazon;s free and seamless returns", 8:45-9am, presented by Chase Eck, Dodge Cahan
"The long-run effects of customer returns". 9-9:15am, presented by Dodge Cahan
Room: Moscone South-74 (Lower Mezz)
Session Chair 1: Wedad Elmaghraby
Session Chair 2: Tara Mardan
Presentations:
"The casual effect of customer service wait times on purchasing and re-engagement", 8-8:15am, presented by Daniel Asfaw, Ebru Kasikaralar, Xin Liu, Stephanie Mao, Azeem Shaikh
"Resolution doesn't pay, humans do: decomposing the customer spending impact of customer service quality", 8:15-8:30am, presented by Hayoung Chen
"Choosing the right objective: a free cash flow approach to resale pricing", 8:30-8:45am, presented by Joe Cooprider
"Quantifying the value of Amazon;s free and seamless returns", 8:45-9am, presented by Chase Eck, Dodge Cahan
"The long-run effects of customer returns". 9-9:15am, presented by Dodge Cahan
Room: Moscone South-74 (Lower Mezz)
Last Mile Planning Optimization
November 2
Website: LINK
Session Chair: Chinmoy Mohapatra
Presentations:
"Structural bias in transformer models", 8-8:12am, presented by Chinmoy Mohapatra, Suyash Vishnoi, Abhilasha Katariyaa, Rohit Malshe
"Adaptive predictions for last mile demand forecasting under distribution shift" 8:12-8:24am, presented by Chinmoy Mohapatra, Suyash Vishnoi,
Abhilasha Katariya, Rohit Malshe
"Recipe-based composable pipeline architecture for scalable last-mile demand forecasting", 8:24-8:36am, presented by Chinmoy Mohapatra, Abhilasha Katariya, Hasan Manzour
"Last mile capacity planning for heavy bulk items", 8:36-8:48am, presented by Zhiyuan Cao, Abhilasha Katariya
"Fine-grained fleet allocation and balancing for Amazon last mile delivery", 8:48-9am, presented by Hugh Medal, Abhilasha Katariya, Xiaodong Lan
"Cutting planes for contiguity-constrained districting with shared units", 9-9:12am, presented by Julie Poullet
Room: Marriott Marquis-Sierra D (5th Floor)
Session Chair: Chinmoy Mohapatra
Presentations:
"Structural bias in transformer models", 8-8:12am, presented by Chinmoy Mohapatra, Suyash Vishnoi, Abhilasha Katariyaa, Rohit Malshe
"Adaptive predictions for last mile demand forecasting under distribution shift" 8:12-8:24am, presented by Chinmoy Mohapatra, Suyash Vishnoi,
Abhilasha Katariya, Rohit Malshe
"Recipe-based composable pipeline architecture for scalable last-mile demand forecasting", 8:24-8:36am, presented by Chinmoy Mohapatra, Abhilasha Katariya, Hasan Manzour
"Last mile capacity planning for heavy bulk items", 8:36-8:48am, presented by Zhiyuan Cao, Abhilasha Katariya
"Fine-grained fleet allocation and balancing for Amazon last mile delivery", 8:48-9am, presented by Hugh Medal, Abhilasha Katariya, Xiaodong Lan
"Cutting planes for contiguity-constrained districting with shared units", 9-9:12am, presented by Julie Poullet
Room: Marriott Marquis-Sierra D (5th Floor)
Practical Applications of Scalable Transportation Optimization
November 2
Website: LINK
Session Chair: Nicholas Kullman
Presentations:
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Jorgo Tesfa
Prem Tiwari, Kaveh Bakhsh Kelarestaghi
"A time-indexed MIP for print-on-demand job scheduling", 2-2:15pm, presented by Shuocheng Guo, Alfredo Nantes, Yaoguang Zhai
"Solving large Amazon middle-mile scheduling problem under uncertainty", 2:15-2:30pm, presented by Martin Bagaram
Room: Marriott Marquis-Sierra D (5th Floor)
Session Chair: Nicholas Kullman
Presentations:
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Prem Tiwari, Kaveh Bakhsh Kelarestaghi
"A time-indexed MIP for print-on-demand job scheduling", 2-2:15pm, presented by Shuocheng Guo, Alfredo Nantes, Yaoguang Zhai
"Solving large Amazon middle-mile scheduling problem under uncertainty", 2:15-2:30pm, presented by Martin Bagaram
Room: Marriott Marquis-Sierra D (5th Floor)
Massively Parallel Solvers for Operations Research at Amazon Scale
November 2
Website: LINK
Session Chair: Qi Chen
Presentations:
"Lifted ADMM for large scale resource assignment, 2:45-3:03pm, presented by Qi Chen, Ozlem Bilginer, Marcus Poggi, Zsolt Cslzmadia
"Fast primal heuristics for some classes of large scale binary integer programming problems", 3:21-3:39pm, presented by Qi Chen, Ozlem Bilginer, Marcus Poggi
Room: Moscone South - 209 (Level 2)
Session Chair: Qi Chen
Presentations:
"Lifted ADMM for large scale resource assignment, 2:45-3:03pm, presented by Qi Chen, Ozlem Bilginer, Marcus Poggi, Zsolt Cslzmadia
"Fast primal heuristics for some classes of large scale binary integer programming problems", 3:21-3:39pm, presented by Qi Chen, Ozlem Bilginer, Marcus Poggi
Room: Moscone South - 209 (Level 2)
Middle Mile Transportation
November 2
Website: LINK
Session Chair: Scott Mason
Presentations:
"Tiered procurement and layered replanning: coping with uncertainty in Amazon's middle mile", 2:45-3pm, presented by Phillip Kriett
"Integrating multi-agent reinforcement learning with mixed-integer optimization for dynamic chute allocation in robotic sortation", 3-3:15pm, presented by Guangyi Liu, Fei Xie, Suzan ILOGLU, Angelos Koulouras, Michael Zavlanos, Scott Mason, Michael Caldara
"Freight mode optimization for middle mile linehaul network at Amazon", 3:15-3:30pm, presented by Haotian Wu
"Relay capacity intelligence: a multi-agent system for automated carrier engagement at Amazon", 3:30-3:45pm, presented by Yebin Tao, Roger Lederman
"Scaling the skies: large-scale end-to-end air network optimization", 3:45-4pm, presented by Tulio Toffolo, Eduardo Carrano, Adalbeto Sato Michels, Na An
Room: Marriott Marquis-Sierra D (5th Floor)
Session Chair: Scott Mason
Presentations:
"Tiered procurement and layered replanning: coping with uncertainty in Amazon's middle mile", 2:45-3pm, presented by Phillip Kriett
"Integrating multi-agent reinforcement learning with mixed-integer optimization for dynamic chute allocation in robotic sortation", 3-3:15pm, presented by Guangyi Liu, Fei Xie, Suzan ILOGLU, Angelos Koulouras, Michael Zavlanos, Scott Mason, Michael Caldara
"Freight mode optimization for middle mile linehaul network at Amazon", 3:15-3:30pm, presented by Haotian Wu
"Relay capacity intelligence: a multi-agent system for automated carrier engagement at Amazon", 3:30-3:45pm, presented by Yebin Tao, Roger Lederman
"Scaling the skies: large-scale end-to-end air network optimization", 3:45-4pm, presented by Tulio Toffolo, Eduardo Carrano, Adalbeto Sato Michels, Na An
Room: Marriott Marquis-Sierra D (5th Floor)
Operational Design & Equity: Evidence from Healthcare and Retail
November 2
Website: LINK
Presentations:
"Impacts of return window length: evidence from Amazon;s European marketplaces", 4:51-5:09pm, presented by Mateusz Filipski
Room: Moscone South-152 (Upper Mezz)
"Pricing the condition ladder: demand, substitution and optimization in resale", 5:90-5:27pm, presented by Alice Qi
Room: Moscone South-152 (Upper mezz)
Presentations:
"Impacts of return window length: evidence from Amazon;s European marketplaces", 4:51-5:09pm, presented by Mateusz Filipski
Room: Moscone South-152 (Upper Mezz)
"Pricing the condition ladder: demand, substitution and optimization in resale", 5:90-5:27pm, presented by Alice Qi
Room: Moscone South-152 (Upper mezz)
Analytics and Machine Learning for Healthcare Decisions
November 3
Labor Planning at Amazon: Innovation in the AI era
November 3
Website: LINK
Session Chair: Roman Levkin
Presentations:
"Using knowledge graphs for decision making", 1:15-1:30pm, presented by Brian Salisbuey
"When optimal isn;t actionable: a scenario-based framework for human-in-the-loop planning under uncertainty", 1:30-1:45pm, presented by Anis Ben Said, Damon Luong, Roman Levkin, Saba Neyshabouri, Zeynep Sargut, Thomas Fillebeen
"Optimizing Amazon shipper network configurations", 1:45-2pm, presented by Hadi Panahi, Saba Neyshabouri
"Risk assessment for continuous labor planning at Amazon last-mile", 2-2:15pm, presented by Saba Neyshabouri, Anirudh Raghavan
"Breaking the complexity barrier: scalable flow planning for sub-same day fulfillment", 2:15-2:30pm, presented by Nayeon Kim, Zeynep Sargut, Martin Savelsbergh
Room: Moscone South-8 (Exhibit Level)
Session Chair: Roman Levkin
Presentations:
"Using knowledge graphs for decision making", 1:15-1:30pm, presented by Brian Salisbuey
"When optimal isn;t actionable: a scenario-based framework for human-in-the-loop planning under uncertainty", 1:30-1:45pm, presented by Anis Ben Said, Damon Luong, Roman Levkin, Saba Neyshabouri, Zeynep Sargut, Thomas Fillebeen
"Optimizing Amazon shipper network configurations", 1:45-2pm, presented by Hadi Panahi, Saba Neyshabouri
"Risk assessment for continuous labor planning at Amazon last-mile", 2-2:15pm, presented by Saba Neyshabouri, Anirudh Raghavan
"Breaking the complexity barrier: scalable flow planning for sub-same day fulfillment", 2:15-2:30pm, presented by Nayeon Kim, Zeynep Sargut, Martin Savelsbergh
Room: Moscone South-8 (Exhibit Level)
AI and Automated Reasoning in Practice: From Agentic Systems to Large-Scale Verification
November 1
Website: LINK
Session Chair: Pratik Mital
Presentations:
"Large-scale automated reasoning systems within AWS", 8:15-8:30am, presented by Pratik Mital
"Automated quality verification at scale: measuring what makes multilingual marketing copy work, 9-9:15am, presented by Sonia Mary Puthota, Liz Luo
Room: Marriott Marquis-Sierra F (5th Floor)
Session Chair: Pratik Mital
Presentations:
"Large-scale automated reasoning systems within AWS", 8:15-8:30am, presented by Pratik Mital
"Automated quality verification at scale: measuring what makes multilingual marketing copy work, 9-9:15am, presented by Sonia Mary Puthota, Liz Luo
Room: Marriott Marquis-Sierra F (5th Floor)
Distributed Optimization in Supply Chain Planning
November 1
Website: LINK
Session Chair: Maximillian Zellner
Presentations:
"Asynchronous agents in consensus planning protocol optimization", 4:15-4:30pm, presented by Logan Smith
"Accelerating consensus planning protocol with machine-learning based initialization", 4:30-4:45pm, presented by Weiheng Bai, Yicheng Bai,
Logan Smith
"Scenario reduction methods for sample average approximation in stochastic optimization", 4:45-5pm, presented by Weiheng Bai, Yicheng Bai,Logan Smith, Yujing Lin
"Non-convex consensus planning protocol", 5-5:15pm, presented by Arash Haddadan, Yicheng Bai, Cam Karamali, Ziyi Wang
"Model explainability framework for supply chain planning", 5:15-5:30pm, presented by Weiheng Bai, Yujing Lin
Room: Moscone South-211 (Level 2)
Session Chair: Maximillian Zellner
Presentations:
"Asynchronous agents in consensus planning protocol optimization", 4:15-4:30pm, presented by Logan Smith
"Accelerating consensus planning protocol with machine-learning based initialization", 4:30-4:45pm, presented by Weiheng Bai, Yicheng Bai,
Logan Smith
"Scenario reduction methods for sample average approximation in stochastic optimization", 4:45-5pm, presented by Weiheng Bai, Yicheng Bai,Logan Smith, Yujing Lin
"Non-convex consensus planning protocol", 5-5:15pm, presented by Arash Haddadan, Yicheng Bai, Cam Karamali, Ziyi Wang
"Model explainability framework for supply chain planning", 5:15-5:30pm, presented by Weiheng Bai, Yujing Lin
Room: Moscone South-211 (Level 2)
