About

Jorge Huertas is a PhD student in Operations Research at the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Georgia Tech. He holds a dual bachelor's degree in Industrial Engineering and in Systems and Computing Engineering, and a master's degree in Industrial Engineering from Universidad de los Andes (Colombia). He also holds a Six Sigma - Black Belt certification from Arizona State University, and a master's degree in Operations Research from Georgia Tech. Currently, he is a Graduate Research Assistant working with Dr Pascal Van Hentenryck in the AI Institute for Advances in Optimization (AI4OPT).

Jorge has academic, consulting, and industry experience combining data analysis, mathematical modeling, computational simulation, and artificial intelligence to tackle problems that appear in transportation, logistics, manufacturing, healthcare, and communications systems.

Jorge worked with Intel Corporation as an Operations Research Engineering Intern for two years while pursuing his doctoral degree, where he combined advanced optimization methods with artificial intelligence to improve the planning processes of the supply chain for semiconductor manufacturing. Furthermore, he is a former instructor of the Industrial Engineering Department at Universidad de los Andes, where he taught undergraduate and graduate courses in optimization, simulation, and data science. Additionally, he was a researcher in the Center for Optimization and Applied probability (COPA), where he worked on several academic and consulting projects. In parallel, he worked as a short-term analytics consultant in transportation for the World Bank Group. Also, he served as a contractor for Bogotá's Mobility Department, and worked for Bogotá's Integrated Public Transit System (Transmilenio).