Talks and presentations

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DROVER: Diffusion-Based Routing with Verbal Preferences

August 16, 2026

Talk, Data Science Meets Optimisation (DSO) Workshop at IJCAI-ECAI 2026, Bremen, Germany

I presented DROVER in Session 1 of the Data Science Meets Optimisation (DSO) workshop at IJCAI-ECAI 2026, held in Bremen on 16 August 2026. The workshop runs under the auspices of the DSO working group of the Association of European Operational Research Societies (EURO), and was chaired by Yaoxin Wu (TU/e), Jayanta Mandi (KU Leuven), Neil Yorke-Smith (TU Delft) and Yingqian Zhang (TU/e). The work is joint with Zaharah Bukhsh and Yingqian Zhang.

Tutorial: Deep Reinforcement Learning for Combinatorial Optimization at IJCAI-ECAI 2026

August 15, 2026

Tutorial, IJCAI-ECAI 2026, Bremen, Germany

I was one of five speakers on the half-day tutorial “Deep Reinforcement Learning for Combinatorial Optimization” (T17) at IJCAI-ECAI 2026, the joint International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence and European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, held in Bremen from 15–21 August 2026.

Offline Reinforcement Learning for Learning to Dispatch for Job Shop Scheduling at ECML PKDD 2025

September 18, 2025

Talk, ECML PKDD 2025, Journal Track, Porto, Portugal

I presented Offline-LD in the Journal Track of ECML PKDD 2025, the European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases, held in Porto from 15–19 September 2025. The paper appeared in Machine Learning (Springer) and was selected for presentation at the conference through the journal track.

Poster Session during DLRL Summer School 2024

July 11, 2024

Poster, DLRL Summer School 2024, Toronto, Canada

At the Deep Learning and Reinforcement Learning (DLRL) Summer School 2024 in Toronto, hosted by CIFAR, Amii, Mila and the Vector Institute, I presented my research on multi-objective reinforcement learning for infrastructural maintenance planning in the poster session.

Oral presentation during ICT Open 2024

April 11, 2024

Talk, NWO ICT.OPEN 2024, Utrecht, The Netherlands

I gave an oral presentation at NWO ICT.OPEN 2024 on utility-based multi-objective reinforcement learning for infrastructural maintenance planning.

Workshop presentation during MODeM 2023

October 01, 2023

Talk, Multi-Objective Decision Making Workshop (MODeM) at ECAI 2023, Kraków, Poland

At the Multi-Objective Decision Making (MODeM) workshop, co-located with ECAI 2023 in Kraków, I presented my workshop paper on multi-objective reinforcement learning for infrastructural maintenance planning.