Welcome to the Research Group of Professor Steffen Rebennack

The division of Stochastic Optimization belongs to the Institute of Operations Research.

 


 

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  • Post-Doc in explainable AI/optimization
    We have an open position for a Post-Doc at the intersection of explainable artificial intelligence (AI) and optimization.
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    We have an open position for a post-doc.
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    We have an open position for a PhD student.
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  • HiWi jobs available
    We are seeking student assistants with the intend for a longer term appointment.
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News

  • ECML PKDD 2026
    Steffen Rebennack is a member of the program committee of the ECML PKDD 2026 (European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases).
     

  • ICS News
    The article "Spatial Branch-and-Bound for Nonconvex Separable Piecewise Linear Optimization" was highlighted in the June 2026 issue of the ICS News of the INFORMS Computing Society. Please see the research highlight here.
     

  • DIS 2026
    Steffen Rebennack is an member of a program committee of the DIS 2026 (9th International Conference on the Dynamics of Information Systems).
     

  • ISE Magazine
    The article "Release Immediately or Sequentially? Stretegies for Allocating Scarce Therapeutic Resources during Disease Outbreak was highligted in March 2026 issue of the ISE Magazine. Please see here. 
     

  • OR2026 - Call for Sessions
    If you interested in organizing at the OR2026 in the stream "Optimization unter Uncertainty", then please contact Christina Büsing or Steffen Rebennack.
     

  • AIS 2026
    Steffen Rebennack is a member of the program committee of the AIS 2026 (12th International Artificial Intelligence Symposium)
     

  • EJOR Editors´ Choice Articles, January 2026
    We congratulate Jannis Kurtz, Ş. Ilker Birbil and Dick den Hertog for their article: "Counterfactual explanations for linear optimization", for being selected as "EJOR Editors´ Choice Article January 2026" by Steffen Rebennack.
     

  • Assistant Professor 
    Dr. John Warwicker has accepted an offer for an Assistant Professor position at the Lancaster University, Leipzig.
    Congratulations!
     

  • ICS Student Paper Runner Up
    We congratulate Thomas Hübner for his award as runner-up of the „ICS Student Paper Award“ of the INFORMS Computing Society for his paper "Spatial Branch-and-Bound for Nonconvex Separable Piecewise Linear Optimization".
     

  • OR2026
    Together with Christina Büsing, Steffen Rebennack is organizing the stream "Optimization under Uncertainty" at the OR2026 conference.






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