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

FMaaS
FMaaS
NWO (2024-29)

Freight Management as a Service

Optimisation

Uncertainty


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AIFES
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
EU Green Deal (2022-26)

Sustainable landside transport

Optimisation

Simulation


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Epistemic AI
Horizon 2020 (2021-26)

Redefining the basis for AI

Uncertainty


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Brains for Buildings
Dutch Ministry EZK (2021-25)

Data-driven building optimisation

Uncertainty

Optimisation


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Voestalpine
Industrial (2021-22)

Job planning and sequencing

Optimisation


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OPTIMAL
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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SAM-FMS
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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News

Master's graduate

Tim Huisman, MSc, graduated on "Algorithmic Solutions for Improved Carrier-Shipper Matching in a Competitive Transport Marketplace"

Master's graduate

Luca Cras, MSc, graduated on "Evaluating the Impact and Opportunities of Physics-Informed Machine Learning on the Task of Greenhouse Humidity Prediction"

Accepted paper

INFORMS Journal on Computing, "Multi-Objective Linear Ensembles for Robust and Sparse Training of Few-Bit Neural Networks"

Master's graduate

Isa Rethans, MSc, graduated on "Predictive Analysis and Key Drivers for PostNL's Cost Per Package"

New STAR Lab doctoral student

Joost Commandeur, Shell e-Mobility

Accepted paper

TRC-30 symposium, "Psychological Factors in Travel Behaviour Interpretation with Social Media Data"

Accepted paper

DSO 2024 workshop at IJCAI'24, "Neural Decision Diagrams for Job Shop Scheduling"

Conference panellist

STAR Lab director will speak at TILTing Perspectives 2024 panel on "Values for an Energy Sector in Transition"

Master's graduate

Yoshi van den Akker, MSc, graduated on "Creating New Train Timetables in Case of Disruptions"

Master's graduate

Sven van der Voort, MSc, graduated on "Sketch-Based Optimisation for Distribution Grid Expansion Planning"

Accepted paper

hEART 2024, "Exploring the Impact of Deceleration Rates on Traffic Incident Probability: A Case Study of Motorways in the Netherlands"

Accepted paper

IJCAI 2024, "Robust Losses for Decision-Focused Learning" (pdf)

Accepted paper

Real Estate, "An Agent-Based Market Analysis of Urban Housing Balance in the Netherlands" (pdf)

Master's graduate

Wantong Zhang, MSc, graduated on "Crowd Risk Assessment in Scheveningen: Exploring the role of crowd and contextual factors"

Accepted poster

CPAIOR 2024, "On Learning CP-SAT Resolution Outcomes Before Reaching Time-Limit"

Master's graduate

Kees t' Hooft, MSc, graduated on "Advancing RL Fleet Planning Through Robust Reward Design and Graph Neural Networks"

IFAAMAS Board

STAR Lab director elected to IFAAMAS Board of Directors

Master's graduate

Simon Mariën, MSc, graduated on "Multi-Objective Differential Evolution Optimization of Ion Beam Analysis Spectra"

Master's graduate

Kylian Kropf, MSc, graduated on "Supporting Non-Expert Users in Modelling and Understanding AI: An interactive CP approach"

Accepted paper

ALA 2024 workshop at AAMAS'24, "Bayesian Ensembles for Exploration in Deep Q-Learning (pdf)

Accepted paper

e-Energy 2024, "Incentives for Accurate Energy Predictions: How to Reduce Epistemic Uncertainty" (pdf)

Accepted paper

Computers & Chemical Engineering, "Mixed-integer Optimisation of Graph Neural Networks for Computer-Aided Molecular Design" (pdf)

Accepted paper

ECC 2024, "Robust Optimal Control With Binary Adjustable Uncertainties"

Accepted paper

CPAIOR 2024, "Improving Metaheuristic Efficiency for Stochastic Optimization Problems by Sequential Predictive Sampling" (pdf)