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    Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management

                       The Chinese University of Hong Kong

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Date: Thursday, May 16, 4:30 pm – 5:30 pm

Venue: ERB 513, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Title: Data-driven Simulation Optimization in the Age of Digital Twins

Speaker:  Prof. Enlu Zhou, Georgia Institute of Technology

Abstract:

A digital twin is a virtual representation of the real system, designed to facilitate performance analysis and decision making of the actual system. At the heart of a digital twin often lies a stochastic simulation model. However, what fundamentally sets a digital twin apart from traditional simulation is the synchronization between the real system and its digital counterpart through the streaming data in real time. Therefore, the growing prevalence of digital twins has brought forth new challenges to simulation analysis and optimization, calling for data-driven techniques that traditionally have not been extensively explored in simulation literature. In this talk, I will present a few of our recent works that tackle simulation and stochastic optimization problems where the underlying distribution is unknown and estimated with input data, especially streaming data arriving sequentially over time.

Biography:

Enlu Zhou is a Professor in the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial & Systems Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology. She received the B.S. degree with highest honors in electrical engineering from Zhejiang University, China, in 2004, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Maryland, College Park, in 2009. Prior to joining Georgia Tech, she was an assistant professor in the Industrial & Enterprise Systems Engineering Department at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign from 2009 to 2013. She is a recipient of the AFOSR Young Investigator award, NSF CAREER award, the INFORMS Outstanding Simulation Publication award, and the Best Theoretical Paper award at the Winter Simulation Conference (twice). She has served as an associate editor for Journal of Simulation, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, and Operations Research. Currently, she is the Vice President and President-Elect of the INFORMS Simulation Society.

Everyone is welcome to attend the talk!

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