Sebastián Souyris

Assistant Professor of Supply Chain and Analytics
Lally School of Management, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI)

My research addresses challenges and the means of achieving environmental and human sustainability, combining data-driven optimization, machine learning, and artificial intelligence. I have developed analytic solutions for sustainability, energy, healthcare, logistics, media, and sports, with work published in Operations Research, Production and Operations Management, the European Journal of Operational Research, and the INFORMS Journal on Applied Analytics.

I am an INFORMS Franz Edelman Laureate, a finalist of the EURO Excellence in Practice Award and of the INFORMS Innovative Applications in Analytics Award, and a prizewinner of the INFORMS Revenue Management and Pricing Practice Award.

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Current research

FCAT

Closing the retirement-savings gap

Behavioural heterogeneity meets conversational AI: a personalized agent for retirement-savings decisions. Fidelity Center for Applied Technology University Research Award.

CRAFT

Drivers of volatility in energy commodity markets

Identifying what moves volatility in energy commodities, with the Center for Research toward Advancing Financial Technologies at Stevens and RPI.

IBM-RPI FCRC

Hybrid quantum-classic approaches to solve optimization problems

A hybrid quantum-classical method for semidefinite programming problems, with the IBM-RPI Future of Computing Research Collaboration.

Selected publications

iScience2024

COVID-19 Test-to-Stay Program for K-12 Schools: Opt-In Versus Opt-Out Consent Model

With A. Ivanov, U. K. Mukherjee, S. Bose, S. Seshadri, R. Watkins, A. C. England, J. Suriano and M. E. Ahsen. 27(1), 108770. DOI

Production and Operations Management2023

Informational value of visual nudges during crises: Improving public health outcomes through social media engagement amid COVID-19

With A. Ivanov, Z. Tacheva, A. Alzaidan and A. C. England. 32, 2400–2419. DOI

Operations Research2023

Scheduling Advertising on Cable Television

First prize, INFORMS RM&P 2022

With S. Seshadri and S. Subramanian. 71(6), 2217–2231. DOI

Scientific Reports2022

Detecting and mitigating simultaneous waves of COVID-19 infections

With S. Hao, S. Bose, A. C. England, A. Ivanov, U. K. Mukherjee and S. Seshadri. 12, 16727. DOI

All publications.