Research for Industries (RFI) Lecture Series: Warren Powell

Sequential Decision Analytics: A unified framework

Warren Powell is Professor Emeritus at Princeton University and Chief Analytics Officer of Optimal Dynamics. He’s also Founder and Director of Castle Labs at Princeton which manages over 70 grants and contracts with government agencies and leading companies working to develop models of algorithms, freight logistics, energy systems, and other industries.

He’s created a new field called sequential decision analytics which he covers in this talk and in his new book: Reinforcement Learning and Stochastic Optimization: A unified framework for sequential decisions.