Complex and challenging decisions: the STAR Lab team explores trustworthy fundamental AI to help people make better decisions in situations from sustainable logistics, to robust planning under uncertainty, to fair energy markets.

Research

The TU Delft STAR Lab confronts a fundamental question of the AI era: how can machine intelligence assist individuals and groups who face complex decision trade-offs? We research how bringing together data and models, human preferences, and AI reasoning can facilitate outcomes better for society. We make impact through partnering with companies, universities, municipalities and government departments.

Projects

DECIDE
DECIDE
NWO (2025-31)

Citizens and AI

Optimisation

Uncertainty


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AIM-TT
AIM-TT
AiNed (2025-28)

AI & mobility learning community

Optimisation

Simulation


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EFFILOAT
EFFILOAT
RVO (2025-27)

Efficient offshore wind turbines

Optimisation

Uncertainty


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PortCall.Zero
PortCall.Zero
NWO (2025-30)

Sustainable terminal services

Optimisation

Uncertainty

Simulation


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FMaaS
FMaaS
NWO (2024-29)

Freight Management as a Service

Optimisation

Uncertainty


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HaPSISH
AIFES
AiNed (2023)

AI for the future energy system

Optimisation

Uncertainty


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Plug-In
Plug-In
Dutch Ministry EZK (2022-26)

HGV energy hubs

Optimisation

Uncertainty


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TULIPS logo
TULIPS
EU Green Deal (2022-26)

Sustainable landside transport

Optimisation

Simulation


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E-pi logo
Epistemic AI
Horizon 2020 (2021-26)

Redefining the basis for AI

Uncertainty


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B4B logo
Brains for Buildings
Dutch Ministry EZK (2021-25)

Data-driven building optimisation

Uncertainty

Optimisation


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Voestalpine logo
Voestalpine
Industrial (2021-22)

Job planning and sequencing

Optimisation


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HaPSISH
OPTIMAL
NWO (2020-25)

Machine learning for optimisation

Optimisation


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TAILOR
EU Horizon 2020 (2020-24)

Trustworthy AI

Simulation

Optimisation


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HaPSISH
SAM-FMS
NWO (2020-24)

Scheduling cyber-physical systems

Optimisation


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HaPSISH
HaPSISH
NWO (2016-20)

Energy system integration

Optimisation

Uncertainty


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DCSMART
DCSMART
EU Horizon 2020 (2016-19)

Energy system integration

Simulation

Uncertainty


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Recent News

Accepted paper

AAMAS 2026, "Towards Strengthening Decentralized Exchange"

Accepted paper

Journal of Process Control, "On Data-Driven Robust Optimization with Multiple Uncertainty Subsets: Unified Uncertainty Set Representation and Mitigating Conservatism"

Preprint

"Deep Learning-Accelerated Multi-Start Large Neighborhood Search for Real-time Freight Bundling" (arxiv)

Conference chair

STAR Lab Director will serve as General Co-Chair for AAMAS'27

Accepted paper

Travel Behaviour and Society, "Extracting Socio-Psychological Perceptions for Analysis of Travel Behaviours"

Accepted paper

RILEM 2026 Spring Convention, "Real-Time Prediction of Mortar Workability Using Multi-Modal Deep Learning"

Master's graduate

Jasper Klein Kranenbarg, MSc, graduated on "Proactive-Reactive Rescheduling for RCMPSP/max using Exact Methods"

Accepted paper

International Journal of Electrical Power and Energy Systems, "Exposing a Locational Energy Market to Uncertainty" (pdf)

New STAR Lab doctoral student

Carlos March Moya, PortCall.Zero project

PyDFLT library for decision-focussed learning

Version 0.1 released

New STAR Lab doctoral student

Ngân Hà Dương, Hermes project

Editorial board

STAR Lab director joins the editorial board of ACM AI Letters