Talks by Mauricio G. C. Resende

Updated: 19 July 2024

2024

My 30+ years of research collaboration with Panos Pardalos, Optimization, Analytics, and Decisions in the Big Data Era – In Honor of the 70th Birthday of Panos Pardalos, Halkidiki, Greece, June 17, 2024. [PDF]

Random-Key Optimizers – A tutorial, invited plenary lecture, LION 18, The 18th Learning and Intelligent Optimization Conference, Ischia Island, Italy, June 9, 2024. [PDF]

Continuous GRASP Random-Key Optimizer, MIC 2024 – 15th Metaheuristics International Conference, Lorient, France, June 4, 2024. [PDF]

Quarenta anos de colaboração entre indústria e universidade, invited inaugural lecture, period 2024.1, Center for Technology and Science, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, March 20, 2024. [PDF]

Forty years of industry-university collaboration, invited talk, Optimization Lab, U. Degli Studi di Udine, Udine, Italy, March 7, 2024. [PDF]

2023

Quarenta anos de colaboração entre indústria e universidade, invited plenary talk, XXI SEPROSUL, Santa Maria, RS, Brazil, November 16, 2023. [PDF]

Quarenta anos de colaboração entre indústria e universidade, invited plenary talk, LV Brazilian Symposium of Operational Research (SBPO 2023), São José dos Campos, SP, Brazil, November 7, 2023. [PDF]

Forty years of industry-university collaboration, invited plenary talk, 65th Annual Conference of the Operational Research Society (OR65), Bath, England, September 13, 2023. [PDF]

BRKGA for the Home Health Care Problem, invited talk, Triannual conference of the International Federation of Operational Research Societies – IFORS 2023, Santiago, Chile, July 10, 2023. [PDF]

Operations Research at Amazon, invited virtual talk, McDonough School of Business, Georgetown U., Washington, DC, USA, June 21, 2023.

Forty years of industry-university collaboration, invited talk, U. Rey Juan Carlos, Department of Computer Science, Madrid, Spain, April 26, 2023. [PDF]

Operations Research at Amazon, joint invited plenary talk with José F. Gonçalves, 2023 Brazilian Workshop on Packing and Cutting, U. of São Paulo, São Carlos, SP, Brazil, March 3, 2023.

The importance of routing at Amazon, invited talk, Universidade Federal de São Paulo – UNIFESP, São José dos Campos, SP, Brazil, February 15, 2023.

Short course – Data Science in Metaheuristics, Instituto Tecnológico de Aeronáutica – ITA, São José dos Campos, SP, Brazil, February 1–28, 2023.

2022

Random-Key Optimization – Problem independent solvers for combinatorial optimization, contributed talk, INFORMS Annual Meeting, Indianapolis, Indiana, October 16, 2022. [PDF]

ATS Transportation Hub Network Design, invited virtual talk, 2022 Amazon Sustainability Science and Innovation Conference, Bellevue, Washington, September 9, 2022.

A metaheuristic algorithm for large maximum weight independent set problems, invited talk, Amazon Transportation Services Labs, LUX20, Luxembourg, September 1, 2022.

Logistics Optimization at Amazon: Operations Research in Action, virtual talk given at Department of Logistics, Molde University College, Molde, Norway, August 22, 2022.

Optimization by BRKGA, invited virtual talk, 2022 IACT Global Summit, Amazon, Austin, Texas, April 7, 2022.

Tribute to David S. Johnson, invited virtual keynote lecture, 12th DIMACS Implementation Challenge - VRP, Piscataway, NJ, April 5, 2022 [PDF]

Logistics Optimization at Amazon: Big Data & Operations Research in Action, invited virtual keynote lecture, XIV Chilean Conference on Operations Research (OPTIMA 2021), Talca, Chile, March 8, 2022

2021

Logistics Optimization at Amazon: Operations Research in Action, invited virtual lecture, Department of Logistics, Molde University College, Molde, Norway, September 13, 2021

The multi-parent Biased Random-Key Genetic Algorithm with Implicit Path-Relinking and its real-world applications, virtual contributed talk, Conference of the International Federation of Operational Research Societies (IFORS 2021), Seoul, Korea, August 26, 2021

Logistics Optimization at Amazon: Operations Research in Action, invited virtual inaugural lecture (Aula Magna), ITA/UNIFESP, S. J. dos Campos, Brazil, August 9, 2021

Logistics Optimization at Amazon: Operations Research in Action, invited virtual plenary talk, SGLog, Fed. U. of Pernambuco, Caruaru, Brazil, August 6, 2021

Path-relinking intensification in local search, invited talk, Amazon ATS Science, Luxembourg, July 20, 2021

Biased random-key genetic algorithms - Global optimization solutions from random building blocks, invited virtual talk, Metaheuristics Summer School (MESS 2021), Sicily, Italy, June 17, 2021

GRASP - Greedy Randomized Adaptive Search Procedures: Some recent advances, invited virtual talk, Metaheuristics Summer School (MESS 2021), Sicily, Italy, June 16, 2021

Logistics Optimization at Amazon: Operations Research in Action, invited virtual talk, Department of Industrial Engineering, Pontifical Catholic U. of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, May 21, 2021

Operations Research at Amazon, 2021 INFORMS PNW Regional Analytics Conference, invited virtual plenary talk, May 14, 2021

Biased random-key genetic algorithms: Global optimization solutions from random building blocks, invited talk, Amazon ATS Science, Luxembourg, April 27, 2021

GRASP - Greedy Randomized Adaptive Search Procedures: Some recent advances, invited talk, Amazon ATS Science, Luxembourg, April 15, 2021

2021 INFORMS Prize - Amazon, 2021 INFORMS Business Analytics Conference, invited virtual talk with T.L. Jacobs and N. Noyan-Bulbul, April 14, 2021

Logistics Optimization at Amazon: Big Data & Operations Research in Action, invited virtual talk, Isenberg School of Management, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts, March 5, 2021

2020

Amazon Middle-Mile Routing - Part II: Local search algorithm, invited online talk, INFORMS Annual Meeting, November 13, 2020.

Biased random-key genetic algorithms: Global optimization solutions from random building blocks, invited online talk, U. of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA, April 29, 2020.

Routing at Amazon, invited plenary talk, The 106th Illinois Transportation & Highway Engineering Conference, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL, USA, February 25, 2020.

2019

Biased random-key genetic algorithms: Learning intelligent solutions from random building blocks, invited online talk, Computational Optimization and Innovation (COIN) Laboratory, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, November 20, 2019.

Thirty-five years of industry-university collaboration, invited talk, Computing Institute, Fed. U. of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil, November 6, 2019.

Logistics optimization at Amazon: Operations research in action, invited talk, Computing Institute, Fed. U. of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil, November 5, 2019.

Biased random-key genetic algorithms, invited online talk, Industrial Engineering Department, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, October 10, 2019.

Biased random-key genetic algorithms: Learning intelligent solutions from random building blocks, invited plenary talk, 5th International Conference on Machine Learning, Optimization, and Data Science -- LOD 2019, Siena, Italy, September 13, 2019.

GRASP with solution blending for maximum weight independent set problem, invited talk, European Conference on Operational Research (EURO 2019), Dublin, Ireland, June 24, 2019.

Routing problems at Amazon, invited plenary talk, Workshop of the EURO Working Group on Vehicle Routing and Logistics optimization (VeRoLog 2019), Seville, Spain, June 5, 2019.

Biased random-key genetic algorithms: A tutorial, invited talk, Industrial and Systems Engineering Department, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA, May 6, 2019.

Biased random-key genetic algorithms: Algorithms and Applications, invited talk, Institute of Advanced Studies of the Alma Mater Studiorum, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy, March 13, 2019.

Logistics optimization at Amazon: Operations Research in Action, invited plenary talk, 2nd Conference of the EURO Working Group on Practice of Operations Research, Bologna, Italy, March 11, 2019.

Logistics optimization at Amazon: Big Data & Operations Research in Action, invited talk, University of Colorado Denver Business School, Denver, Colorado, USA, February 1, 2019.

2018

Logistics optimization at Amazon: Big Data & Operations Research in Action, invited talk, 2018 INFORMS Regional Analytics Conference, University of Washington, Seattle, USA, September 14, 2018.

Biased random-key genetic algorithms: A tutorial, invited talk, 2018 Metaheuristics Summer School, Acireale, Catania, Sicily, Italy, July 23-24, 2018.

Logistics optimization at Amazon: Big Data & Operations Research in Action, invited talk, Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, USA, April 12, 2018.

Path-relinking intensification in local search, invited talk, Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA, February 27, 2018.

2017

GRASP - Greedy randomized adaptive search procedures: Some recent advances, invited keynote talk, 2017 Symposium of the Mexican Operations Research Society (SMIO 2017), Guadalajara, Mexico, October 5, 2017.

GRASP - Greedy randomized adaptive search procedures: Some recent advances, Constantine Carathedory Prize plenary talk, 2017 World Congress on Global Optimization (GOC 2017), College Station, Texas, U.S.A., March 31, 2017.

2016

An improved genetic algorithm for job shop scheduling, INFORMS Annual Meeting, Nashville, TN, USA, November 13, 2016.

Biased random-key genetic algorithms: An advanced tutorial, tutorial talk, with C.C. Ribeiro, Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2016), Denver, CO, U.S.A., July 20-24, 2016.

Logistics optimization at Amazon: Big data & operational research in action, invited keynote talk, 28th European Conference on Operational Research (EURO 2016), Poznán, Poland, July 4, 2016.

Interior-point methods - The early days: 1984 to 2001, invited plenary talk, 2nd Brazilian Workshop on Interior Point Methods, Campinas, SP, Brazil, May 17-18, 2016.

Metaheuristic approaches to continuous global optimization, invited plenary talk, 2nd Brazilian Workshop on Interior Point Methods, Campinas, SP, Brazil, May 17-18, 2016.

A biased random-key genetic algorithm for the capacitated minimum spanning tree problem,13th INFORMS Telecommunications Conference, Boca Raton, FL, U.S.A., March 20, 2016.

2015

Packing with biased random-key genetic algorithms, invited talk, Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA, January 20, 2015.

A biased random-key genetic algorithm for the capacitated minimum spanning tree problem, invited talk, 2015 INFORMS Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, USA, November 1, 2015.

Biased random-key genetic algorithms, invited plenary talk, 2nd Brazilian Conference on Industrial Applications of Mathematics (CNMAI 2015), Fortaleza, CE, Brazil, October 5, 2015.

Logistics optimization at Amazon: Big data & operations research in action, invited plenary talk, XLVII Symposium of the Brazilian Operations Research Society (XLVII SBPO), Porto de Galinhas, PE, Brazil, August 26, 2015.

Biased random-key genetic algorithms, invited talk, Department of Industrial Engineering, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, August 24, 2015.

Biased random-key genetic algorithm for wireless backhaul network design, contributed talk, 11th Metaheuristics International Conference (MIC 2015), Agadir, Morocco, June 8, 2015.

Biased random-key genetic algorithms, invited plenary talk, 11th Metaheuristics International Conference (MIC 2015), Agadir, Morocco, June 8, 2015.

Packing with biased random-key genetic algorithms, invited talk, Computing Institute, State University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Campinas, SP, Brazil, March 3, 2015.

Packing with biased random-key genetic algorithms, invited talk, Modelling & Optimization Group, Amazon.com, Seattle, WA, USA, February 10, 2015.

Packing with biased random-key genetic algorithms, invited talk, Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA, January 20, 2015.