NSF Awards ISE Researcher CAREER Grant To Study New Learning-Based Optimization Methods

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded University of Florida engineering professor Aleksandr Kazachkov $550,213 to develop integer optimization technology that may enhance power system operations, vehicle routing, and even organ transplant allocation. 

The NSF Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) program grant will fund research to improve the scalability, speed, and reliability of integer programming solvers via a new generation of learning-enabled cutting planes, which are constraints that can be automatically derived from an optimization instance to refine the search space of solutions. 

“It began with a mathematical question: When and how do optimization solvers benefit from cutting planes that drastically differ from those currently employed by solvers?” said Kazachkov, an assistant professor with Industrial & Systems Engineering (ISE) and an assistant director of the Center for Applied Optimization (CAO). 

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