Conferences & Talks

Invited Talks

  • SIAM Conference on Optimization (OP26) (Edinburgh, UK | June 2026)
  • INFORMS Optimization Society Conference (Atlanta, USA | March 2026)
  • INFORMS Annual Meeting [4 talks] (Atlanta, USA | October 2025)
  • ICSP 2025 (Paris, France | July 2025)
  • Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI) (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | July 2025)
  • University of Liverpool Management School (Liverpool, UK | July 2025)
  • INFORMS MSOM 2025 (London, UK | June 2025)
  • The European Technology & Operations Management Day (London, UK | June 2025)
  • EURO Online Seminar Series on OR&ML [YOUNG session] (Virtual | April 2025)
  • London Operations Research Day [LORD] (Oxford, UK | April 2025)
  • Fall 2024 Talks in reverse chronological order:
    Columbia University IEOR (canceled due to logistics), Stanford Graduate School of Business, UCLA Anderson School of Management, Sabancı University, Özyeğin University, Koç University, Frankfurt School of Finance & Management, INSEAD, UCL School of Management, Católica Lisbon School of Business & Economics, IESE Business School, Sydney Business School
  • INFORMS Annual Meeting [5 talks] (Seattle, USA | October 2024)
  • European TOM Virtual Seminar Series (Virtual | September 2025)
  • Singapore University of Technology and Design (Singapore | August 2024)
  • Analytics for X & Next-Gen Scholars Symposium (Singapore | August 2024)
  • ISMP 2024, RO and ML minisymposium (Montréal, Canada | July 2024)
  • Legal & General (Virtual | June 2024)
  • Stochastic Programming Society Junior Session [video] (Virtual | April 2024)
  • Georgia Tech ISyE Junior Researcher Workshop (Atlanta, USA | April 2024)
  • Socially Intelligent Artificial Systems Group, University of Amsterdam (Virtual | March 2024)
  • ICL Computational Statistics and Machine Learning [link] (London, UK | February 2024)
  • PGMO Days 2023: Robust Optimization and Applications (Paris, FR | November 2023)
  • INFORMS Annual Meeting (Phoenix, USA | October 2023)
  • Rotman Young Scholar seminar series (Virtual | June 2023)
  • SIAM Conference on Optimization (OP23) (Seattle, USA | May 2023)
  • Pint of Science 2023 (London, UK | May 2023)
  • LBS Transatlantic Doctoral Conference: MSO track (London, UK | May 2023)
  • Robust Optimization Webinars [video] (Virtual | March 2023)
  • AI UK 2023: PitchFest Finalist Talk [video] (London, UK | March 2023)
  • AI UK 2023: Lightning Talks [with Dr Anastasia Borovykh] [video] (London, UK | March 2023)
  • The Sargent Centre for Process Systems Engineering (London, UK | November 2022)
  • Alan Turing Institute #TuringConnections (London, UK | November 2022)
  • Imperial College DoC Joint Optimization Seminars (London, UK | October 2022)
  • QuantumBlack - a McKinsey Company (London, UK | June 2022)
  • BCG GAMMA (London, UK | May 2022)
  • ICBS Operations Research PhD Seminars (London, UK | May 2022)
  • INFORMS Computing Society Conference (Tampa, USA | January 2022)
  • Imperial-LBS-UCL Brown Bag Student Seminar Series (Virtual | January 2021)
  • Robust Optimization Webinars (Virtual | July 2020)
  • INFORMS Business Analytics Conference (Austin, USA | April 2019)

Organized Sessions

  • "Charting the Unknown Unknowns"
    @SIAM Conference on Optimization 2026 (Edinburgh, UK | June 2026)
    • Speakers: Hamsa Bastani, Zijian Guo, Nam Ho-Nguyen, Dan Iancu, Cagil Kocyigit, Daniel Kuhn, George Lan, Mengmeng Li, Aras Selvi, Buse Sen, Irina Wang, Wolfram Wiesemann
    • Organizers: Daniel Kuhn, Mengmeng Li, Aras Selvi, Wolfram Wiesemann
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  • "Value of Information in Optimization"
    @INFORMS Optimization Society Conference 2026 (Atlanta, USA | March 2026)
    • Speakers: Amine Bennouna, René Caldentey, Adam Elmachtoub, Aras Selvi
    • Organizers: Amine Bennouna, Aras Selvi
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  • "Computational Advancements in Decision Making Under Uncertainty"
    @INFORMS Optimization Society Conference 2026 (Atlanta, USA | March 2026)
    • Speakers: Liviu Aolaritei, Omar Mouchtaki, Tianyu Wang, Luhao Zhang
    • Organizer: Aras Selvi
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  • "Decision Making in Uncertain Dynamic Environments"
    @INFORMS Annual Meeting 2025 (Atlanta, USA | October 2025)
    • Speakers: Laixi Shi, Lily Xu, Lingjun Meng, Hanqi Wen, Yanqiu Ruan
    • Organizer: Aras Selvi
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  • "Robust Optimization and Machine Learning"
    @International Conference on Stochastic Programming 2025 (Paris, France | July 2025)
    • Speakers: Aras Selvi, Julien Grand-Clément, Yan Li, Mengmeng Li, Melvyn Sim, Bartolomeo Stellato, Irina Wang, Enlu Zhou
    • Organizers: Mengmeng Li, Aras Selvi
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  • "Robust Optimization and Machine Learning"
    @International Symposium on Mathematical Programming (Montréal, Canada | July 2024)
    • Speakers: Aharon Ben-Tal, Jose Blanchet, Sergio Camelo, Caihua Chen, Abhilash Chenreddy, Clint Chin Pang Ho, Mengmeng Li, Karthyek Murthy, Vamsi Potluru, Aras Selvi, Shimrit Shtern, Shuo Sun, Yuhao Wang, Jie Wang, Man-Chung Yue, Duo Zhou
    • Organizers: Mengmeng Li, Aras Selvi

Additional Attended Conferences

(* indicates I presented my work.)
  • Workshop on Information and Learning (WIL) (London, UK | June 2025)
  • The European Technology & Operations Management Day (Cambridge, UK | June 2024)
  • INFORMS Revenue Management & Pricing (RMP) Conference (London, UK | July 2023)
  • *NeurIPS 2022 (New Orleans, US | December 2022)
  • PhD Winter School: Data Science, Optimization and OR (Zinal, CH | January 2022)
  • *The Operational Research Society Annual Conference OR63 (Virtual | September 2022)
  • ICML 2022 (Virtual | April 2022)
  • ICLR 2022 (Virtual | July 2022)