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 (2025-33)

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


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

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

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

Preprint

"Priors Matter: Addressing Misspecification in Bayesian Deep Q-Learning" (arxiv)

Master's graduate

Daniël Hogendoorn, MSc, graduated on "Predicting Data Quality of Event-Based Container Trackers"

Master's graduate

Mozafar Shah, MSc, graduated on "Deep Reinforcement Learning for Multi-Objective Airport Ground Handling"

Invited speaker

STAR Lab director will speak at the EURO PhD School Symposium "AI Meets Optimization"

Master's graduate

Max Le Blansch, MSc, graduated on "Generating Evenly Distributed Near-Optimal Investment Alternatives for Large-Scale Power Systems using Genetic Algorithms"

Preprint

"Modelling Program Spaces in Program Synthesis with Constraints" (arxiv)

Accepted poster

ICCL 2025, "An Incentive-based Coordination Approach for Decentralized Synchromodal Transport Platforms"

Master's graduate

Michall Hu, MSc, graduated on "A Cost-Driven Framework for Optimizing Columnar Database"

Master's graduate

Rixt Hellinga, MSc, graduated on "Modelling Sharing Economies"

Master's graduate

Steffano Psathas, MSc, graduated on "A Proactive Approach to the Multi-Skill Multi-Mode Resource-Constrained Project Scheduling Problem with Uncertainty"

Open position

PhD position "Contextual Optimisation and Reinforcement Learning for Sustainability"

Accepted paper

European Journal of Control, "Model Predictive Building Climate Control for Mitigating Heat Pump Noise Pollution"

Master's graduate

Venelina Pocheva, MSc, graduated on "Enhancing Issue Tracking Efficiency with AI-Driven Natural Language Processing"

Master's graduate

Roy Katz, MSc, graduated on "Adding Ejection Chain to Nurse Rostering Simulated Annealing Solver"

Master's graduate

Matthijs de Goede, MSc graduated cum laude on "Robust Optimization of Heavy Goods Electric Vehicle Fleet Planning"

Master's graduate

Andrei Mereuta, MSc graduated on "Multi-Meal, Multi-Constraint Recommender System to Optimize Grocery Budget and Waste"

Master's graduate

Bart Lagae, MSc, graduated on "Building the Charging Demand Curve at a Heavy Duty Electric Vehicle Charging Station"

Epistemic AI project preprint

"Epistemic Artificial Intelligence is Essential for Machine Learning Models to Truly 'Know When They Do Not Know'" (arxiv)

Accepted poster

AIChE 2025, "Optimizing over Trained Transformer Attention Mechanisms: A Mixed-Integer Nonlinear Programming Formulation"