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Lead Data Scientist at Bluecrux with a newsletter about Constraint Programming.

Associate Professor at Universidade Federal da Paraíba + Host of the “Subject to” podcast.

Optimization Expert | Algorithm Design | Operations Research

An arcade-style TSP challenge game written for https://github.com/tunnuz/arcadetsp's 2018 Christmas Party, follow the in-game instructions.

Learn supply chain principles through a visual simulation.

Web-based app that is intended to act as an entry point for data scientists and problem solvers who could benefit from optimization; the game teaches players why optimization is valuable and important, why it’s difficult (by showcasing the scaling and added complexity of optimization throughout round play), and why solvers and other optimization algorithms are essential in finding an optimal solution.

Operations Research Scientist at Amazon, shares pragmatic views about delivering value through OR.

A game to better understand how CVRP works.

Professor in Operations Research at Copenhagen Business School; Editor-in-Chief of TOP, the OR journal of SEIO.

Optimization consultant at Decide4AI sharing impactful tips on coding for OR projects.

J.D. Kelly is an Advanced Planning and Scheduling (APS) and Advanced Process Control (APC) expert in the process industries including both optimization and estimation technologies otherwise known as Advanced Production-chain Control, Optimization and Estimation (APCOE)

Reader in Mathematics at the University of Edinburgh

Professor of Decision and Operation Technologies at Bielefeld University.

Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2023 INFORMS President.

Interactive resources to learn Graph Theory.

Interactive resources to learn OR.

The TLC is a simple constrained integer program turned into a game that you can play in a classroom with Legos. In each round of the game, your team acts as a boutique woodworking company who must decide which items to build and sell to the market. The goal is to decide how many of each type of item to build to maximize profits and beat other teams, where you are constrained by how many component pieces you have available.

Professor of operations research at RWTH Aachen University.

Assistant Professor of Transportation Engineering @ York University | Director of Interactive-OR | Amazon Visiting Academic @ Amazon

Creator of Optimization Solvers, CEO at InsideOpt.

Principal Research Scientist | AI Planning, Reasoning, and Decision-Making Systems; Executive Council Board Member at ICAPS and at AAAI, AAAI Senior Member

Developed to help spark an interest for mathematics in children and young adults. I use optimization concepts in the context of real-life problems as motivation. All you need are a printer to print the pages with the instructions and a pair of scissors to cut out the game pieces.

Manager, Operations Research & Data Science | Optimization Expert (Ph.D.)

Seems some of us can't see a problem without wanting to take a crack at solving it. Does that sound like you? Good. Forge ahead and ponder this month's problem. We'll post a new one every month, and allow a month for you to submit solutions (we may even publish submitted answers, especially if they're correct).

President of Optisol, Scheduling Specialist for High-Variety, Order-Driven Production and Resource-Constrained Projects.

A comprehensive guide to mathematical modeling with more than 140 games as case studies.

Deliver 100 barrels to the customer at the lowest cost. Select wells and refineries to choose volume flowing on pipe-lines.

Learn about cutting planes in an adictive way.

A game to play the Knapsack to learn how to solve it.

Self-employed OR Engineer at Bluebird Optimization sharing insights about the impact of optimization in businesses.

Mathematical Optimization Researcher, Teacher, and Manager

Another game with map visualizations for the TSP.

Solve the TSP in a visual way from the Productions and Operations Management (Universitat Wein).

Professor Emeritus, Princeton University/ Co-Founder, Optimal Dynamics, shares knowledge about sequential decision problems.