June 2026:
- Several paper preprints are out
- Root Finding and Metamodeling for Rapid and Robust Computer Model Calibration
- Adaptive Regularization within Trust Region Methods for Stochastic Nonconvex Optimization
- Stratified Adaptive Sampling for Derivative-free Stochastic Trust-region Optimization
- Extrapolation-based Direct Search for Nonsmooth Stochastic Zeroth-Order Optimization
- Three conference proceedings were accepted for publication at WSC 2026
- LISA: Large Language Models Can Invent Solvers Autonomously
- Diagnostic Tools for Stochastically Constrained Optimization: A Case Study
- Stochastic Trust Region Methods for Derivative-free Optimization with Equality Constraints
- Group had presentations in several conferences in the month of June:
- Shashaani and Amici presented at SIAM Conference on Optimization in Edinburgh, UK
- Amici presented at The 5th Italian Meeting on Probability and Mathematical Statistics in Palermo, Italy
- Shashaani gave a seminar the Department of Statistics and Operations Research, University of Vienna, Austria
- Shashaani gave a plenary talk at the 11th VOCAL Optimization Conference: Advanced Algorithms, Széchenyi István University in Mosonmagyaróvár, Hungary
- Shashaani receives two new fundings as a Co-PI
- UNC System Research Opportunities Initiative, Personalized Federated Learning Framework for Advanced Manufacturing Environment, 2026-2029
- National Science Foundation CMMI-2624250, 2026 I-Sim Workshop – Simulation in the Age of Digital Twins and AI, 2026