Neil Yorke-Smith

Director, STAR Lab
Associate Professor, Algorithmics group
Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science
Delft University of Technology
The Netherlands
 
n.yorke-smith at tudelft dot nl

 

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Potential MSc and PhD students are welcome to make contact by email or in person.

News (2025)

• Dec25: Examiner. PhD examiner for Yiyuan Zou, Delft University of Technology
• Oct25: Supervision. Jasper Klein Kranenbarg, MSc, graduated on "Robust Engine Shop Scheduling"
• Oct25: Accepted paper. International Journal of Electrical Power and Energy Systems, "Exposing a Locational Energy Market to Uncertainty"
• Oct25: Doctoral student. Carlos March Moya, PortCall.Zero project
• Oct25: Conference. Applications Track Co-Chair for ICAPS 2026 in Ireland
• Sep25: Examiner. PhD examiner for Egon Persak, University of Edinburgh
• Sep25: Doctoral student. Ngân Hà Dương, Hermes project
• Sep25: Editorial Board. ACM AI Letters
• Sep25: Visitor. Aïdin Sumic from ONERA
• Aug25: Preprint. "Priors Matter: Addressing Misspecification in Bayesian Deep Q-Learning" (arxiv)
• Aug25: Supervision. Daniël Hogendoorn, MSc, graduated on "Predicting Data Quality of Event-Based Container Trackers"
• Aug25: Supervision. Mozafar Shah, MSc, graduated on "Deep Reinforcement Learning for Multi-Objective Airport Ground Handling"
• Aug25: Speaker. EURO PhD School Symposium "AI Meets Optimization", "Robust Decision-Focussed Learning"
• Aug25: Supervision. Max Le Blansch, MSc, graduated on "Generating Evenly Distributed Near-Optimal Investment Alternatives for Large-Scale Power Systems using Genetic Algorithms"
• Aug25: Preprint. "Modelling Program Spaces in Program Synthesis with Constraints" (arxiv)
• Jul25: Accepted poster. ICCL 2025, "An Incentive-based Coordination Approach for Decentralized Synchromodal Transport Platforms"
• Jul25: Supervision. Michall Hu, MSc, graduated on "A Cost-Driven Framework for Optimizing Columnar Database"
• Jul25: Supervision. Rixt Hellinga, MSc, graduated on "Modelling Sharing Economies"
• Jul25: Open position. Postdoc position "Applied Planning and Scheduling under Uncertainty"
• Jul25: Supervision. Steffano Psathas, MSc, graduated on "A Proactive Approach to the Multi-Skill Multi-Mode Resource-Constrained Project Scheduling Problem with Uncertainty"
• Jul25: Open position. PhD position "Contextual Optimisation and Reinforcement Learning for Sustainability"
• Jul25: Accepted paper. European Journal of Control, "Model Predictive Building Climate Control for Mitigating Heat Pump Noise Pollution" pdf)>
• Jul25: Supervision. Venelina Pocheva, MSc, graduated on "Enhancing Issue Tracking Efficiency with AI-Driven Natural Language Processing"
• Jun25: Supervision. Roy Katz, MSc, graduated on "Adding Ejection Chain to Nurse Rostering Simulated Annealing Solver"
• Jun25: Lab. ICAI AILogLab website is live
• Jun25: Supervision. Matthijs de Goede, MSc graduated cum laude on "Robust Optimization of Heavy Goods Electric Vehicle Fleet Planning"
• Jun25: Supervision. Andrei Mereuta, MSc graduated on "Multi-Meal, Multi-Constraint Recommender System to Optimize Grocery Budget and Waste"
• Jun25: Supervision. Bart Lagae, MSc, graduated on "Building the Charging Demand Curve at a Heavy Duty Electric Vehicle Charging Station"
• Jun25: Preprint. "Epistemic Artificial Intelligence is Essential for Machine Learning Models to Truly 'Know When They Do Not Know'" (arxiv)
• Jun25: Accepted poster. AIChE 2025, "Optimizing over Trained Transformer Attention Mechanisms: A Mixed-Integer Nonlinear Programming Formulation"
• Jun25: Examiner. PhD examiner for Jianan Zhou, Nanyang Technological University
• May25: Competition. A team including Harry Zhang and Xueying Ou won first place in the AAMAS'25 Maritime Shipping Competition
• May25: Speaker. CRM Workshop 'Combinatorial optimization and data science', "Towards Robust Decision-Focussed Learning"
• May25: Preprint. "Sufficient Decision Proxies for Decision-Focused Learning" (arxiv)
• May25: Preprint. "Epistemic Wrapping for Uncertainty Quantification" (arxiv)
• Apr25: Accepted paper. PED 2025, "Multi-level Crowd Estimation with Limited Data"
• Apr25: Examiner. PhD examiner for Alicia Vidler, UNSW Sydney
• Apr25: Preprint. "Model Predictive Building Climate Control for Mitigating Heat Pump Noise Pollution (Extended Version)" (arxiv)
• Apr25: Accepted paper. RS5C 2025, "Probabilistic Road Safety Assessment Using Traffic Macroscopic Spatiotemporal Variables Fused with Accident Data"
• Mar25: Accepted paper. MABS 2025 workshop at AAMAS'25, "An Agent-Based Model of Administrative Corruption in Hierarchical Organisations" (pdf)
• Mar25: Workshop. Co-chair of Data Science Meets Optimization workshop at ECML-PKDD'25
• Mar25: Conference. Sponsorship Co-Chair for ICAPS 2026 in Ireland
• Mar25: Accepted paper. ECC 2025, "Model Predictive Building Climate Control for Mitigating Heat Pump Noise Pollution" (pdf)
• Mar25: Conference. Organising Committee for AAMAS 2026 in Cyprus
• Feb25: Preprint. "Generalized Decision Focused Learning under Imprecise Uncertainty: Theoretical Study" (arxiv)
• Feb25: Open position. Postdoc position "Applied Planning and Scheduling under Uncertainty"
• Feb25: Speaker. 9th AIROYoung Workshop, "Learning to Branch"
• Feb25: Panellist. Leiden University, "Reinforcement Learning & Energy"
• Feb25: Accepted paper. Journal of Environmental Management, "How Ex Ante Policy Evaluation Supports Circular City Development: Amsterdam's mass timber construction policy" (pdf)
• Jan25: Examiner. PhD examiner for Lucas van Dijk, Delft University of Technology
• Jan25: Supervision. Dr Lara Scavuzzo graduated cum laude on "Towards Smarter MILP Solvers: A data-driven approach to branch-and-bound"
• Jan25: Accepted paper. Journal of Air Transport Management, "An Aircraft and Schedule Integrated Approach to Crew Scheduling for a Point-to-Point Airline" (pdf)
• Jan25: Supervision. Wouter Looijenga, MSc, graduated on "Predictive Modelling for Aviation Resource Allocation: Enhancing Reserve Crew Forecasting"
• Jan25: Published. Urban Planning, "AI for and in Urban Planning"
• Jan25: Panellist. Mondai House of AI, "Rethinking Freight Mobility in the Digital Era"
• Jan25: Grant. Open Science Community Delft, "A Citizen Science Accessibility Assessment and Tool Innovation Project for Buildings at TU Delft"

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