July 2025 - Princeton Optimization

July 22, 2025

July 22, 2025

Innovation at UPS and Throughout Transportation and Logistics

For the Optimization Catalyst podcast (listen here) Steve spoke with Suzay Passari, Head of Innovation and Transportation at UPS, and David O’Keefe, head of Alliances America at Gurobi. Following are lightly edited excerpts. Sunzay noted that UPS, a 118-year-old company, presents unique challenges and opportunities for transformation due to its established legacy in technology, processes, […]

July 1, 2025

July 1, 2025

BY Irv Lustig, PhD

Big Data vs. Little Data: Optimizing with Databricks

At the INFORMS Analytics+ Conference in Indianapolis, Irv presented a workshop along with Siddhesh Pore of Databricks, https://www.databricks.com/. They discussed data-first principles and best practices, data prep and engineering, and optimization integrations on the Databricks platform. Following is an edited excerpt from the Q&A at the end of the program. Audience Member: I enjoyed the […]