Operations research and optimization

Construction auditing is a vital step in designing new sites in fulfillment centers (FCs). The audits include inspection processes for newly launched buildings which ensure that the buildings meet workplace standards. In current practice the process of scheduling construction audits and prioritizing the checklists when launching new buildings is highly manual, and requires going over lengthy textual data

We propose a novel adaptation of graph-based active learning for customer address resolution or de-duplication, with the aim to determine if two addresses represent the same physical building or not. For delivery systems, improving address resolution positively impacts multiple downstream systems such as geocoding, route planning and delivery time estimations, leading to an efficient and reliable delivery

This paper addresses instances of the temporal fixed-charge multi-commodity flow (tfMCF) problem that arise in a very large scale dynamic transportation application. We model the tfMCF as a discrete-time Resource Task Network (RTN) with cyclic schedule, and formulate it as a mixed-integer program. These problems are notoriously hard to solve due to their time-expanded nature, and their size renders their

System-in-Package (SiP) technology provides a valuable opportunity to make products with smaller form factor, enrich functionality, and better reliability performance for consumer electronics. One key reason for SiP's success is the encapsulated structure using molding compound, which can provide protection to all the components inside and allows reduced component-to-component spacing. However, if the design

The study of robustness has received much attention due to its inevitability in data-driven settings where many systems face uncertainty. One such example of concern is Bayesian Optimization (BO), where uncertainty is multi-faceted, yet there only exists a limited number of works dedicated to this direction. In particular, there is the work of [10], which bridges the existing literature of Distributionally